[8] Zurita, Anales, tom. iv. fol. 360.—Conde, Dominacion de los Arabes, tom. iii. p. 241.—Peter Martyr, Opus Epist., lib. 2, epist. 70.—Estrada, Poblacion de España, tom. ii. fol. 239.—Marmol, Rebelion de Moriscos, lib. 1, cap. 16.
[9] Pulgar, Reyes Católicos, cap. 106, 107.—Conde, Dominacion de los Arabes, tom. iii. cap. 40.—Peter Martyr, Opus Epist., epist. 71. Pulgar relates these particulars with a perspicuity very different from his entangled narrative of some of the preceding operations in this war. Both he and Martyr were present during the whole siege of Baza.
[10] Bernaldez, Reyes Católicos, MS., cap. 92.—Cardonne, Hist. d'Afrique et d'Espagne, tom. iii. pp. 299, 300.—Bleda, Corónica, p. 611.—Garibay, Compendio, tom. ii. p. 664.
Don Gutierre de Cardenas, who possessed so high a place in the confidence of the sovereigns, occupied a station in the queen's household, as we have seen, at the time of her marriage with Ferdinand. His discretion and general ability enabled him to retain the influence which he had early acquired, as is shown by a popular distich of that time.
"Cardenas, y el Cardenal, y Chacon, y Fray Mortero,
Traen la Corte al retortero."
Fray Mortero was Don Alonso de Burgos, bishop of Palencia, confessor of the sovereigns. Don Juan Chacon was the son of Gonsalvo, who had the care of Don Alfonso and the queen during her minority, when he was induced by the liberal largesses of John II., of Aragon, to promote her marriage with his son Ferdinand. The elder Chacon was treated by the sovereigns with the greatest deference and respect, being usually called by them "father." After his death, they continued to manifest a similar regard towards Don Juan, his eldest son, and heir of his ample honors and estates. Salazar de Mendoza, Dignidades, lib. 4, cap. 1.—Oviedo, Quincuagenas, MS., bat. 1, quinc. 2, dial. 1, 2.
[11] Cardonne, Hist. d'Afrique et d'Espagne, tom. iii. p. 304.—Pulgar, Reyes Católicos, cap. 109.—Peter Martyr, Opus Epist., lib. 2, epist. 73. —Bernaldez, Reyes Católicos, MS., cap. 92.
[12] Conde, Dominacion de los Arabes, tom. iii. cap. 40.—Mariana, Hist. de España, tom. ii. lib. 25, cap. 12.—Pulgar, Reyes Católicos, cap. 111.
[13] Pulgar, Reyes Católicos, cap. 112.—Ferreras, Hist. d'Espagne, tom. viii. p. 86.
[14] Bernaldez, Reyes Católicos, MS.—Peter Martyr, Opus Epist., lib. 2, epist. 73, 80.—Pulgar, Reyes Católicos, cap. 113, 114, 117.—Garibay, Compendio, tom. ii. p. 667.—Bleda, Corónica, p. 64.