The record-union., 1891-02-08

funeral bed resounded the responses of
the Canons of the Cathedral, presided by
the Bishop Ampudia, and the Aldermen
and good men of the city filed around it.
all kneelling. The 2sth it was conducted
with solemn pomp to the Church of the
Cartuja de Miraflores and deposited in
the sacristy, in box of metal and another
of larch, with myrrh and fragrant es-
sences, covered with cloth of brocade
and gold.
In the same Casa del Gordon were re-
united the grandees of the kingdom, that
accompanied the court from Valledaiid,
constituting a provisional regency, pre-
neras, and formed by the Condestables de
Castillo, the Duque de Alba, the Almi-
rante Euriquez, the Duque del Infantado
and the Duque de Najera; and meanwhile
these two last, with the Constable, pro-
posed that they invite to the government
the Emperor Maximilian l., the King of
Portugal, Don Manual husband of the
the Infanta Isabel of CASTLE and father of
the dead Prince of Asturias, Don Miguel
de la Paz), and other magnates, loyal par
tlSanS of Don Fernando the Catholic; they
had for law the resolution of the Cartes de
Toro in favor of the husband of the Cath
olic Queen, but it did not meet the APP
prOVal OF the cO-rogenIS.
The Queen Dona Juana had then an in
slant of providential lucidity, and SUBJ
scribed to the royal cedule of December
18th OF the same year, 1906, revoking the
powers authorized by her husband since
the death of the Catholic Queen: and a
few days after made them open the box
that contained the mortal remains of the
King, since it was current in Borgois that
the Flemish thought of stealing them land
fri of hn Ca,.tI, so,
order, liar and fool" folio lovior ct
6tdste1'us cucultotats says Pedro Martir,
made the unfortunate Queen believe that
her husband would be raised in short
time), and taking them with her in the
rigor of winter she began her sorrowful
journey, that did not terminate until
three years LATER in the Convent of Santa
Clara de Tordesilles, travelling by night
and resting by day, believing that her
poor husband was yet sleeping and ex-
pecting him to resuscitate and clasp her
in his arms, and also take in his arms his
posthumous daughter, Dona Catalina,
that was born in the third day of that
funeral journey in the town Of Torque-
mada, 18th of January, 1907.
''And the widowed Queen could not
shed tear (said writer of that epoch),
for she had weeped so much that it had
dried up the fountains of her eyes"
Something in illustrated Spain is left
for me to remember at this point, two
magnificent productions that relate to
these dramatic successes: The drama
Locura de Amor, of the academician
Tamayo, and the painting Dona Juana la
Loca of the painter Pradilla.
l will note in a few lines the most nota-
bic events that occurred after, of which
the Palace of the Constable has been the
theatre, emitting others of less import
ance.
There Don Fernando, the Catholic. re-
ceived in 15l2, Mahomed-ebu-L En-
bassador of the King of Tremecen. Muley
Abdallah, who was declared perpetual
vassal OF the monarch and sent him rich
presents; there authorized the same Don
Fernando, his first will on the I'd of May
OF the same year, a document of inappre-
ciable value, as it shows the high political
foresight of that distinguished King.
There lin the houses that the Constable
has in this city" (Burgos), the Court of
CASTLE reunited in June and July 1915,
and before them Dom Fernando declared
the incorporation of the kingdom of Ma
yarre with the crown of CASTLE. There in
1920, was beseiged by the commoners,
the Constable Don Iuigo Fernandez de
Velasco, brother and successor of Don
Bernadino THAT had died without male
heirs, and he only saved his and the life
of his wife, Dona Maria de Tovar, by their
flight disguised as country people, and
thus passed the two chief traitors of the
populace, Bernal de la Ria, halter, and
Anton Juan, cutter. And lastly there re-
sided the Emperor Charles V, the King
Francis l. of France, King Philip IL,
Queen Anne of Austria, King Philip III
and his six children, King Philip w.,
with his daughter, the infanta Maria Te-
reSa, the King Charles H.. and his wife.
Maria Luissa de Orleans, King Philip V.
The Palacio de los Condestables of
CASTLE, theater of such distinguished sue
cessors, dwelling of kings and of illus
trious men since the Beginning of the fif-
teentb century, artistic and at the same
time severe model Of, the civil edifices of
the antique nobility, ought not to fall
under the demoraliZing mattock, and the
Council should and ought to preserve it.
a. It is tradition that the Catholic Queen.
when she read this phrase in the epitaph of
the Admiral, ordered 1t erased, saying: .sSe-
villa was gained by the holy King Fernando -
(2-) The Senior Canton de SalaZar affirms
that the lying statues OF ahe sepulchre We're by
the chisel of Philip Vigarni, the Burgonese
but the Chapter DR.. Dan Manuel Martinez v
Sanz, the Consciencians historian of the
cathedral, will not conceed to it.
49, One thing is the Chapel of the Purifica-
tion or of the Constable, and another is the
Chapel of the Conception or of the Bishop
Acuna, and in this consists the error of the
Senior Canton of SalaZar. Juan de Colonia
commenced this last chapel in 1477 and his
son assisted him in the works of sculpture;
but that master died two years before the
license WAS granted for building the Chapel of
the Constable This is certain.
a. The historian Prescott forgot to men,
ton this.
(5.) Message of the Duke of Arevalo from
the Castle of Burgos to the King Don Alfonso
V. of Portugal in 1474.-The Council of Bur-
gos ''levies tax of $50, 600" ON the infabi-
tants ofthe city for the expenses of the recep-
ton of the King.
(6.) He was embalmed in the Flemish man.
ner, and the entrails kept in silver vessel
and wrapping this in white silk cloth, they
were taken on the 26th to the Cartuja de
Mirafiores and buried in pit near the high
altar and the sepuichres of the sovereigns
Don Juan III. and Donna Isabel of Portugal,