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102 102 INSANITY OF JOANNA. PART trenches. Ferdinand pressed close on his flying enemy, whose rear sustained some annoyance from the Spanish ginetes, in its passage through the de- files of the sierras. The retreat, however, was conducted in too good order to allow any material loss to be inflicted on the French, who succeeded at length in sheltering themselves under the cannon of Narbonne, up to which place they were pursued by their victorious foe. Several places on the fron- tier, as Leocate, Palme, Sigean, Roquefort, and others, were abandoned to the Spaniards, who pil- laged them of whatever was worth carrying off"; without any violence, however, to the persons of the inhabitants, whom, as a Christian population, if we are to believe Martyr, Ferdinand refused even to make prisoners. ^^ The Spanish monarch made no attempt to retain these acquisitions ; but having dismantled some of the towns, which offered most resistance, returned loaded with the spoils of victory to his own domin- 24 Zurita, Hist, del Rey Her- licular. *' Quare elucescente die nando, torn. i. lib. 5, cap. 54. — moniti nostri de Gallorum discessu Abarca, Reyes de Aragon, torn. ii. ad eos, at sero, concurrerunt. Rex rey 30, cap. 13, sec. 11. — Peter Perpiniani agebat, ad millia passu- Martyr, Opus Epist., epist. 264. — um sex non brevia, uti nosti. Prop- Carbajal, Anales, MS.jaiio 1503. — terca sero id actum, venit concitato Bernaldez, Reyes Catolicos, MS., cursu, at sero. Ad hostes itur, at cap. 198. — Gamier, Hist, de sero. Cernunt hostium acies, at France, torn. v. pp. 408, 409. — sero, at a longe. Distabant jam Gonzalo Ayora, Cartas, carta 11. milliaria circiter duo. Ergo sero — Oviedo, Quincuagenas, MS., Phryges sapuerunt. Cujus hsec dial, de Deza. culpa, tu scrutator aliunde; mea Peter Martyr seems to have est, si nescis. Maximam dedit ea shared none of Isabella's scruples dies, quae est, si nescis, calendarum in regard to bringing the enemy to Novembrium scxta, Hispanis igno- battle. On the contrary, he in- miniam, ct aliquando jacturam illis dulges in a most querulous strain pariet collachrymandam." Letter of sarcasm against the Catholic to the cardinal of Santa Cruz, king for his remissness in this par- epist. 2G2.