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419 PERSECUTIONS IN GRANADA. 419 All of soldiers. When he had reached the place chapter VI. where the mob was gathered, he threw his bonnet into the midst of them, in token of his pacific in- tentions. The action was received with acclama- tions, and the people, whose feelings had now taken another direction, recalled by his presence to the recollection of his uniformly mild and equi- table rule, treated him with similar respect to that shown the archbishop of Granada.^^ These two individuals took advantage of this favorable change of feeling to expostulate with the Moors on the folly and desperation of their con- duct, which must involve them in a struggle with such overwhelming odds as that of the whole Spanish monarchy. They implored them to lay down their arms and return to their duty, in which event they pledged themselves, as far as in their power, -to allow no further repetition of the griev- ances complained of, and to intercede for their par- don with the sovereigns. The count testified his sincerity, by leaving his wife and two children as hostages in the heart of the Albaycin ; an act which must be admitted to imply unbounded con- fidence in the integrity of the Moors. ^^ These various measures, backed, moreover, by the coun- sels and authority of some of the chief alfaquis, 32Marmol,Rebelionde Moriscos, fied, may be inferred from a com- lib. 1, cap. 26. — Peter Martyr, mon saying of Archbishop Tala- Opus Epist., epist. 212. — Quin- vera, "That Moorish works and tanilla, Archetypo, p. 56. — Bleda, Spanish faith were all that were Coronica, ubi supra. wanting to make a good Chris- 33 Marmol, Rebelion de Moriscos, tian." A bitter sarcasm this on his loc. cit. — Mendoza, Guerra de own countrymen ! Pedraza, An- Granada, lib. 1, p. 11. liguedad de Granada, lib. 3, cap. That such confidence was justi- 10.