[164] Don John seems to have chafed under the restrictions imposed on him by the king. At least we may infer so from a rebuke of Philip, who tells his brother that, "though for the great love he bears him he will overlook such language this time, it will not be well for him to repeat it."—Ibid. 20 de Mayo, 1569, MS.
[165] Vanderhammen, Don Juan de Austria, fol. 94.
Marmol, with one or two vigorous coups de pinceau, gives the portrait of the marquis. "No se podia determinar qual era en él mayor extremo, su esfuerzo, valentia y discrecion, ó la arrogancia y ambicion de honra, acompañada de aspereza de condicion."—Rebelion de Granada, tom. ii. p. 99.
[166] Ibid. p. 73 et seq.—Vanderhammen, Don Juan de Austria, fol. 94.—Mendoza, Guerra de Granada, p. 175 et seq.—Miniana, Historia de España, p. 377.
[167] "Quando vieron el fuerte perdido, se despeñaron por las peñas mas agrias, quiriendo mas morir hechas pedazos, que venir en poder de Christianos."—Marmol, Rebelion de Granada, tom. ii. p. 89.
[168] "Casi todos los capitanes."—Ibid. loc. cit.
[169] The fierce encounter at Fraxiliana is given in great detail by Mendoza (Guerra de Granada, pp. 165-169), and Marmol (Rebelion de Granada, tom. ii. pp. 86-90). No field of fight was better contested during the war; and both historians bear testimony to the extraordinary valour of the Moriscoes, worthy of the best days of the Arabian empire. Philip, while he commends the generous ardour shown by the grand-commander in the expedition, condemns him for having quitted his fleet to engage in it. "El comendador mayor tubo buen suceso como deseais, y como entiendo yo que lo merece su zelo y su intencion, mas salir su persona en tierra, teniendo en vuestra ausencia el cargo de la mas fué cosa digna de mucha reprehension."—Carta del Rey á Don Juan, 25 de Junio 1569, MS.
[170] Marmol, Rebelion de Granada, tom. ii. pp. 108-111.—Ferreras, Hist. d'Espagne, tom. x. pp. 83, 84—Cabrera, Filipe Segundo, lib. ix. cap. 6.
[171] Mendoza, Guerra de Granada, p. 146—Marmol, Rebelion de Granada, tom. ii. p. 100.—Bleda (Cronica de España, p. 705), in the part of his work, has done nothing more than transcribe the pages of Mendoza, and that in so blundering a style as to mistake the date of this event by a month.
[172] "Puestos en la cuerda, con guarda de infanteria i cavalleria por una i otra parte."—Mendoza, Guerra de Granada, p. 147.