Date: 1873
ADMINISTRATION OF CASTILE.  280 diction; and the magnificent apparatus of the Santa Hermandad, stripped of all but the terrors of its name, dwindled into an ordinary police, such as it has existed, with various modifications of form, down to the present century.4 Isabella was so intent on the prosecution of her schemes of reform, that, even in the minuter details, she frequently superintended the execution of them herself.  For this she was admirably fitted by her per sonal address, and presence of mind in danger, and by the influence which a conviction of her integrity gave her over the minds of the people.