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190 190 ADMINISTRATION OF CASTILE. PART She exacted from him, however, the full restitution I. of such domains and fortresses as he had filched from the crown and from the city of Seville, on condition of similar concessions by his rival, the duke of Medina Sidonia. She next attempted to establish a reconciliation between. these belligerent grandees ; but, aware that, however pacific might be their demonstrations for the present, there could be little hope of permanently allaying the inherited feuds of a century, whilst the neighbourhood of the parties to each other must necessarily multiply fresh causes of disgust, she caused them to with- draw from Seville to their estates in the country, and by this expedient succeeded in extinguishing the flame of discord. '^ Royal In the following; year, 1478, Isabella accompa- AiXTwia. nied her husband in a tour through Andalusia, for the immediate purpose of reconnoitring the coast. In the course of this progress, they were splendidly entertained by the duke and marquis at their pa- trimonial estates. They afterwards proceeded to Cordova, where they adopted a similar policy with that pursued at Seville, compelling the count de Cabra, connected with the blood royal, and Alonso de Aguilar, lord of Montilla, whose factions had long desolated this fair city, to withdraw into the country, and restore the immense possessions. 7 Bemaldei!, Reyes Cafolicos, Rcnim Gestarum Decades, lib MS., cap. 29. — Zurita, Anales, 7. — L. Marineo, Cosas Memo- torn, iv. fol. 283. — Zviniga, An- rabies, ubi supra. Garibay, Com nales deSevilla, p. 382.— Lclmja, pendio, lib. 18, cap. II.