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186 1 86 ADMINISTRATION OF CASTILE PART there, admonishing them to return to their voca- I. tions, as this was no time for calm inquiry ; and promising, that, if they would send three or four of their number to her on the morrow to report the extent of their grievances, she would examine into the affair, and render justice to all parties. The mob accordingly dispersed, and the queen, after a candid examination, having ascertained the ground- lessness or gross exaggeration of the misdemeanors imputed to Cabrera, and traced the source of the conspiracy to the jealousy of the bishop of Segovia and his associates, reinstated the deposed alcayde in the full possession of his dignities, which his enemies, either convinced of the altered dispositions of the people, or believing that the favorable mo- ment for resistance had escaped, made no further attempts to disturb. Thus by a happy pres- ence of mind, an affair, which threatened, at its outset, disastrous consequences, was settled without bloodshed, or compromise of the royal dignity. * it^s^vnic."^ In the summer of the following year, 1477, Isa- bella resolved to pay a visit to Estremadura and Andalusia, for the purpose of composing the dis- sensions, and introducing a more efficient police, in 5 Carbajal, Anales, MS., ano ment, and his solicitude for lus 76. — Pulgar, Reyes Cat6licos, vassals, whom he inspired with part. 2, cap. 59. — Ferrcras, Hist, the deepest attachmeni." (Quin- d'Espagnc, torn. viii. p. 477. — cuagenas, MS., bat. 1, quinc. 1, Lebrija, Rerum Gcstarum Dccad., dial. 23.) The best panegyric on fol. 41, 42. — Gonzalo de Oviedo his cliaracter, is the unshaken con- lavishes many encomiums on Ca- fidencc, which iiis royal mistress brera, for " his generous qualities, reposed in him, to the day of her his singular prudence in govern- death.