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248 248 REIGN AND DEATH OF PHILIP. I'ART fortresses of the kingdom intrusted to their keep- ing. No length or degree of service was allowed to plead in behalf of the ancient occupant. The marquis and marchioness of Moja, the personal friends of the late queen, and who had been partic- ularly recommended bj her to her daughter's favor, were forcibly expelled from Segovia, whose strong citadel was given to Don Juan Manuel. There were no limits to the estates and honors lavished on this crafty minion.^ Reckless ex- Xhe stvle of living at the court was on the most Iravngaiice. J o thoughtless scale of wasteful expenditure. The public revenues, notwithstanding liberal appropria- tions by the late cortes, were wholly unequal to it. To supply the deficit, offices were sold to the high- est bidder. The income drawn from the silk man- ufactures of Granada, which had been appropriated to defray King Ferdinand's pension, was assigned by Philip to one of the royal treasurers. Fortunate- ly, Ximenes obtained possession of the order, and had the boldness to tear it in pieces. Pie then waited on the young monarch, and remonstrated with him on the recklessness of measures, which must infallibly ruin his credit with the people. Philip yielded in this instance ; but, although he treated the archbishop with the greatest outward deference, it is not easy to discern the habitual in- 3 Peter Martyr, Opus Epist., cap. 21. —Gomez, De Rebus Ges- er)ist. 312. — Mariana, Hist, de tis, fol. G5. — Ovicdo, Quincuage- Espafia, torn. ii. lib. 28, cap. 22. nas, MS., bat. 1, quiiic. 1, dial. 23. — Lanuza, Historias, torn. i. lib. 1,