King, Georgiana Goddard: A brief account of the military orders in Spain (New York: The Hispanic Society of America, 1921)

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star: and hagiography can count up its
half-dozen or more of the blessed and the
sainted. S. Domingo de Guzman himself
began as a conventual freyle of Ucles.
That Philip IV called out the Order
against the insurgents in Catalonia, is
reckoned by a Spanish historian among his
gravest sins. But indeed for what they
could be used was a hard question, now
that not a Moor was left in Spain. Cis-
Africa
neros when he took Oran offered to trans-
offered
port them to Africa and give them con-
vents and churches and allow them all of
Africa that they could conquer: if he
might have had his way, the lot of Africa
would be happier perhaps to-day. But the
event of history was against his intention
and they went, instead, to America; but
not corporately.
Estremadura supplied the greatest of
those conquerors and the Order of Santiago
America
counts their names. Says Caro de Torres:
found
The war of Granada being ended with
so much honour and advantage to all
Spain, and the lordship of the Moors
AND MONOGRAPHS