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120 120 TROUBLES IN CASTILE AND ARAGON. I'ART livelj fidelity in the chronicles, the letters, and the — satires of the time.'' Revoitof While Ferdinand's presence was more than ever fi_om Louis j^gccssarj to support the drooping spirits of his party in Castile, he was unexpectedly summoned into Aragon to the assistance of his father. No sooner had Barcelona submitted to king John, as mentioned in a preceding chapter, '^ than the in- habitants of Roussillon and Cerdagne, which prov- inces, it will be remembered, were placed in the custody of France, as a guaranty for the king of Aragon's engagements, oppressed by the grievous exactions of their new rulers, determined to break the yoke, and to put themselves again under the protection of their ancient master, provided they could obtain his support. The opportunity was favorable. A large part of the garrisons in the principal cities had been withdrawn by Louis the Eleventh, to cover the frontier on the side of 11 Bernaldez, Reyes Calolicos, and a better sovereign to the coun- MS., cap. 4, 5, 7. — Zufiiga, Ana- try. This performance, even more les de Sevilla, pp. 3G3, 364. — interesting to the antiquarian than Alonso dcPalencia,Cor6nica,MS., to the historian, has been attributed g art. 2, cap. 35, 38,39,42. — Saez, by some to Pulgar, (see Mariana, lonedas do Enrique IV., pp. 1-5. Hist, de Espaila, torn. ii. p. 475,) — Pulgar, in an epistle addressed, and by others to Kodrigo Cota, in the autumn of 1473, to the bish- (see Nic. Antonio, Bibliotheca op of Coria, adverts to several cir- Vetus, tom. ii. p. 264,) but with- cumstances which set in a strong out satisfactory evidence in favor light the anarchical state of the of either. Bouterwek is much kingdom and the total deficiency mistaken in asserting it to have of police. The celebrated satirical been aimed at the government of eclogue, also, entitled " Mingo John II. The gloss of Pulgar, Revulgo," exposes, with coarse but whose authority as a contemporary cutting sarcasm, the license of the must be considered decisive, plain- court, the corruption of the clergy, ly proves it to have been directed and the prevalent depravity of the against Henry IV. people. In one of its stanzas it 12 gge Chap. II. boldly ventures to promise another