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MILITARY ORDERS
Two
months a
Master
and was Captain General at Moron in
battle against the Moors.
News of his death came to King Peter
before Toro. The tale that follows is a
fair specimen of many that are told by
Pero Lopez de Ayala, as instances of King
Peter’s cruelty, yet it is hard to see what
else any king would have done. He was-
as Andrada says—a stubborn doer of his
will: he was capable of great trust, and
when he punished it was with finality.
There under the battlements of Toro he
called a chapter and urged the election of
D. Diego Gutierrez de Cervellos, who had
not the habit of the Order, nor indeed any
other, promising to send for an Apostolic
Bull. He sent the new Master to Palan-
zuela with some knights of the Order and
others secular: anon he heard that they
were conspiring with the enemy. The King,
learning the treachery of one he had so
hardily sustained, wrote him to leave the
siege to his cousin the Comendador Mayor:
when he came he was arrested and taken
to the Alcazar of Zamora, and evilly
entreated. The charge was transferred to
HISPANIC NOTES
MILITARY ORDERS
Two
months a
Master
and was Captain General at Moron in
battle against the Moors.
News of his death came to King Peter
before Toro. The tale that follows is a
fair specimen of many that are told by
Pero Lopez de Ayala, as instances of King
Peter’s cruelty, yet it is hard to see what
else any king would have done. He was-
as Andrada says—a stubborn doer of his
will: he was capable of great trust, and
when he punished it was with finality.
There under the battlements of Toro he
called a chapter and urged the election of
D. Diego Gutierrez de Cervellos, who had
not the habit of the Order, nor indeed any
other, promising to send for an Apostolic
Bull. He sent the new Master to Palan-
zuela with some knights of the Order and
others secular: anon he heard that they
were conspiring with the enemy. The King,
learning the treachery of one he had so
hardily sustained, wrote him to leave the
siege to his cousin the Comendador Mayor:
when he came he was arrested and taken
to the Alcazar of Zamora, and evilly
entreated. The charge was transferred to
HISPANIC NOTES