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224 224 THE REGENCY OF FERDINAND. II. PART posely landed in a remote corner of the country, in order to gain time for his partisans to come forward and declare themselves. Missives had been de- spatched to the principal nobles and cavaliers, and they were answered by great numbers of all ranks, who pressed forward to welcome and pay court to the young monarch. °^ Among them were the names of most of the considerable Castilian fam- ilies, and several, as Villena and Najara, were ac- companied by large, well-appointed retinues of armed followers. The archduke brought over with him a body of three thousand German infantry, in complete order. He soon mustered an additional force of six thousand native Spaniards, which, with the chivalry who thronged to meet him, placed him in a condition to dictate terms to his father-in-law ; and he now openly proclaimed, that he had no in- tention of abiding by the concord of Salamanca, and that he would never consent to an arrangement prejudicing in any degree his, and his wife's, ex- clusive possession of the crown of Castile. ^^ It was in vain that Ferdinand endeavoured to gain Don Juan Manuel to his interests by the most liberal offers. He could offer nothing to compete with the absolute ascendency which the favorite held over his young sovereign. It was in vain, 35 " Qnisque enim in spes suas cap. 29, 30. — Gomez, De Rebus pronus cl cxpcdituH, commodo ser- Gestis, fol. Ct7. — Beriiakiez, Heyes vienduin," says Giovio, borrowing Calolicos, 1IS., cap. 201. — Peter the familiar metaphor, " ct orien- Martyr, Opus Epist., epist. 304, tern solcm potius qiiani occidentcni 305. — Carbajal, Anales, MS., ailo adoran(him esse dictitabal." Vitaj 150G. — Sandoval, Hist, del Emp. Illiist. Vironim, p. 278. Carlos V., torn. i. p. 10. ^ Zurita, Anales, torn. vi. lib. 6,