[42]. Florez, ‘Reinas Catolicos.’
[43]. See Perez de Pulgar, ‘Reyes Catolicos.’
[44]. Florez, ‘Reinas Catolicos.’
[45]. Bernaldez, ‘Reyes Catolicos,’ and Bleda’s ‘Cronica.’
[46]. The chroniclers of the siege dilate much upon the magnificent appearance of Isabel and her great train of ladies when, on the day of her arrival before Baza, she reviewed her troops in full view of the dumbfoundered Moors on the ramparts of the fortress. Her own Castilian troops, frantic with enthusiasm, no longer cried ‘Long live the Queen,’ but ‘Long live our King Isabel.’—Florez, ‘Reinas Catolicos,’ and Letters of Peter Martyr, who was present.
[47]. The professed Christian Jews were much more severely dealt with than the unbaptised.
[48]. Perez de Hita (Historia de los Vandos) recounts that the city of Santa Fe sprang from a marvellous edifice which four grandees caused to be constructed in a single night. It consisted of four buildings of wood covered with painted canvas to imitate stone, and surrounded by a battlemented wall of a similar construction. Roadways in the form of a cross divided the four blocks with a gate at each of the four extremities. The Moors, on seeing what they thought was a strong fortress raised so rapidly, thought that witchcraft had been at work, and were utterly cast down.
[49]. The title ‘Catholic’ was formally conferred upon them by the Pope after the taking of Granada.
[50]. He promptly sold this to Isabel, and retired to Fez, where he was murdered. The account of the surrender is mainly taken from Perez de Hita’s ‘Historia de los Vandos,’ 1610, and Perez de Pulgar’s ‘Cronica.’
[51]. She is said never to have allowed Ferdinand to wear a shirt except those that she herself made for him.—Navarro Rodrigo, ‘El Cardinal Cisneros.’