[15] Robles, Vida de Ximenez, cap. 14.—Marmol, Rebelion de Moriscos, lib. 1, cap. 24.—Gomez, De Rebus Gestis, fol. 29.—Suma de la Vida de Cisneros, MS.
[16] Robles, Vida de Ximenez, cap. 14.—Quintanilla, Archetypo, fol. 55.— The sound of bells, so unusual to Mahometan ears, pealing day and night from the newly consecrated mosques, gained Ximenes the appellation of alfaqui campanero from the Granadines. Suma de la Vida de Cisneros, MS.
[17] Marmol, Rebelion de Moriscos, lib. 1, cap. 25.
Take for example the following provisions in the treaty. "Que si algun Moro tuviere alguna renegada por muger, no será apremiada á ser Christiana contra su voluntad, sino que será interrogada, en presencia de Christianos y de Moros, y se siguirá su voluntad; y lo mesmo se entenderá con los niños y niñas nacidos de Christiana y Moro. Que ningun Moro ni Mora serán apremiados á ser Christianos contra su voluntad; y que si alguna doncella, ó casada, ó viuda, por razon de algunos amores se quisiere tornar Christiana, tampoco será recebida, hasta ser interrogada." The whole treaty is given in extenso by Marmol, and by no other author that I have seen.
[18] Gomez, De Rebus Gestis, lib. 1, fol. 29.
[19] Robles, Rebelion de Moriscos, cap. 14.—Suma de la Vida de Cisneros, MS.—Gomez, De Rebus Gestis, fol. 30.—Marmol, Rebelion de Moriscos, lib. 1, cap. 25.
Zegri assumed the baptismal name of the Great Captain, Gonzalo Hernandez,
whose prowess he had experienced in a personal rencontre in the vega of
Granada. Marmol, Rebelion de Moriscos, ubi supra.—Suma de la Vida de
Cisneros, MS.
[20] Hist. d'Espagne, tom. viii. p. 195.
[21] According to Robles, (Rebelion de Moriscos, p. 104,) and the Suma de la Vida de Cisneros, 1,005,000; to Conde, (El Nubiense, Descripcion d'España, p. 4, note,) 80,000; to Gomez and others, 5000. There are scarcely any data for arriving at probability in this monstrous discrepancy. The famous library of the Ommeyades at Cordova was said to contain 600,000 volumes. It had long since been dissipated; and no similar collection had been attempted in Granada, where learning was never in that palmy state which it reached under the Cordovan dynasty. Still, however, learned men were to be found there, and the Moorish metropolis would naturally be the depository of such literary treasures as had escaped the general shipwreck of time and accident. On the whole, the estimate of Gomez would appear much too small, and that of Robles as disproportionately exaggerated. Conde, better instructed in Arabic lore than any of his predecessors, may be found, perhaps, here, as elsewhere, the best authority.
[22] Gomez, De Rebus Gestis, lib. 2, fol. 30.—Marmol, Rebelion de Moriscos, lib. 1, cap. 25.—Robles, Vida de Ximenez, cap. 14.—Suma de la Vida de Cisneros, MS.—Quintanilla, Archetypo, p. 58.