[23] "Que él habia consultado aquel negocio con hombres de ciencia y conciencia, y le decian que estaba obligado á hacer lo que hacia."--Ibid. p. 175. [24] "Que el negocio de la prematica estaba determinado, y su Magestad resoluta en que se cumpliese."--Ibid, ubi supra. [25] Ibid. p. 176.--Cabrera. Filipe Segundo, lib. vii. cap. [26] "A estas y otras muchas razones que el marques de Mondejar daba, Don Diego de Espinosa le respondió, que la voluntad de su Magestad era aquella, y que se fuese al reyno de Granada, donde serio de mucha importancia su persona, atropellando como siempre todas las dificultades que le ponian por delante."--Marmol, Rebelion de los Moriscos, tom. i. p. 168. [27] An ordinance was passed at this time that the Moriscoes who had come from the country to reside with their families in Granada should leave the city and return whence they came, under pain of death.--(Marmol, Rebelion de los Moriscos, tom. i. p. 169.) By another ordinance, the Moriscoes were required to give up their children between the ages of three and fifteen, to be placed in schools and educated in the Christian doctrine and the Castillan tongue. (Ibid. p. 170.) The _Nueva Recopilacion_ contains two laws passed about this time, making it a capital offence to hold any intercourse with Turks or Moors who might visit Granada, even though they came not as corsairs, but for purposes of traffic. (Lib. viii. tit. 26, leyes 16, 18.) Such a law proves the constant apprehensions in which the Spaniards lived of a treasonable correspondence between their Morisco subjects and the foreign Moslems. [28] Marmol Rebelion de los Moriscos, tom. i. pp. 223-233.--Mendoza, Guerra de Granada (Valencia, 1776), p. 43.--Hita, Guerras de Granada, tom. ii. p. 724. [29] "Escrita en noches de augustia y de lagrimas corrientes, sustentadas con esperanza, y la esperanza deriva de la amargura."--Marmol, Rebelion de los Moriscos, tom. i. p. 219. [30] Marmol, Rebelion de los Moriscos, tom. i. p. 235. [31] "La furia horrible de los torbellinos Cada momento mas se vee yr creciendo; Cubre la blanca nieve les caminos, Tambien los hombres luego va cubriendo." So sings, or rather says, the poet-chronicler Rufo, whose epic of four and twenty cantos shows him to have been much more of a chronicler than a poet. Indeed, in his preface, he avows that strict conformity to truth which is the cardinal virtue of the chronicler.--See the Austriada (Madrid, 1584). [32] "Pocos sois, i venís presto."--Mendoza, Guerra de Granada, p. 47. Hita gives a _cancion_ in his work, the burden of which is a complaint that the mountaineers had made their attack too late instead of too early:-- "Pocos sois, y venís tarde." (Guerras de Granada, tom. ii. p. 32.) The difference is explained by the circumstance that the author of the verses--probably Hita himself--considers that Christmas Eve, not New Year's Eve, was the time fixed for the assault.