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95 SURRENDER OF THE CAPITAL. 95 none whatever before the expiration of three years, chapter King Abdallah was to reign over a specified ter- '■ — ritory in the Alpuxarras, for which he was to do homage to the Castilian crown. The artillery and the fortifications were to be delivered into the hands of the Christians, and the city was to be sur- rendered in sixty days from the date of the capitu- lation. Such were the principal terms of the sur- render of Granada, as authenticated by the most accredited Castilian and Arabian authorities ; which I have stated the more precisely, as affording the best data for estimating the extent of Spanish per- fidy in later times. ^^ The conferences could not be conducted so commotions in Granada. secretly, but that some report of them got air among the populace of the city, who now regarded Abdallah with an evil eye for his connexion with the Christians. When the fact of the capitulation became known, the agitation speedily mounted into an open insurrection, which menaced the safety of the city, as well as of Abdallah's person. In this alarming state of things, it was thought best by that monarch's counsellors, to anticipate the ap- is Marmol, Rebelion de Moris- Granada, does not seem to think cos, lib. 1, cap. 19. — Conde, Do- the capitulations worth specifying, minacion de los Arahes, torn. iii. Most of the modern Castilians pass cap. 42. — Zurita, Anales, torn. ii. very lightly over them. They fur- cap. 90. — Cardonne, Hist. d'Af- nish too bitter a comment on the rique et d'Espagne, torn. iii. pp. conduct of subsequent Spanish 317,318. — Oviedo, Quincuagenas, monarchs. Marmol and the judi- MS., bat. 1, quinc. 1, dial. 28. cious Zurita agree in every substan- Martyr adds, that the principal tial particular with Conde, and this Moorish nobility were to remove coincidence may be considered as from the city. (Opus Epist., lib. 4, establishing the actual terms of the epist. 92.) Pedraza, who has de- treaty, voted a volume to the history of