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Had Remained Uninjured; And, As They Had The Right To Demand Horses And
Arms, They Chose Those Which Quinones Had Used In The Last Joust. The
Chronicler Adds: "It Seems To Me That They Did Not Ask It So Much For
Their Honor As For The Safety Of Their Skins." The Judges Decided That
Quinones Was Not Bound To Give His Own Armor, As There Were Other Suits
As Good: Nevertheless, He Complied, And Sent In addition Four Horses To
Choose From. He Was Also Anxious To Joust With Them, But Lope De
Estuniga Refused To Yield His Place, And Cited The Chapter Of The
Regulations Which Provided That No One Should Single Out His Adversary.
Quinones Offered Him A Very Fine Horse And A Gold Chain Worth Three
Hundred Doubloons, But Estuniga Answered That He Would Not Yield His
Turn Although He Were Offered A City.
At Vespers Estuniga And Juan Fabla Were Armed And The Judges Examined
Their Arms, And Although Fabla Had The Better Horse, They Let It Pass.
At The Sound Of The Trumpet Estuniga Entered The Lists Magnificently
Attired, And Attended By Two Pages In armor Bearing A Drawn Sword And A
Lance. Juan Fabla Followed Immediately, And At The Given Signal They
Attacked Each Other Lance In Rest. Fabla Encountered Estuniga In The
Left Arm, Tearing Off His Armor, But Neither Of Them Broke His Lance. In
The Four Following Courses They Failed To Encounter. In The Sixth Fabla
Encountered His Adversary In The Breastplate, Breaking His Lance In The
Middle, And The Head Remained Sticking In The Armor. They Encountered In
The Seventh Course, And Estuniga'S Servant, Who Was In The Lists, Cried
Out, "At Him! At Him!" The Judges Commanded His Tongue To Be Cut Out,
But At The Intercession Of Those Present The Sentence Was Commuted To
Thirty Blows And Imprisonment. They Failed To Encounter In The Eighth
Course, But In The Ninth Estuniga Broke His Lance On Fabla'S Left Arm:
The Latter Failed To Encounter, And Received A Great Reverse. After This
They Ran Nine Courses Without Encountering, But In The Nineteenth
Estuniga Met Fabla In The Plastron, And His Lance Slipped Off On To His
Helmet, But Did Not Break, Although It Pierced The Plastron And The Iron
Remained Sticking In It. By This Time It Had Grown So Dark That The
Judges Could Not Distinguish The Good From The Bad Encounters, And For
This Reason They Decided That The Combat Was Finished The Same As Though
Three Lances Had Been Broken. Estuniga Invited Fabla To Sup With
Quinones, "And At Table There Were Many Knights, And After Supper They
Danced."
That Same Day There Arrived At The Pass Nine Knights From Aragon, Who
Swore That They Were Gentlemen Without Reproach. Their Spurs Were Taken
From Them, According To The Established Custom, And Hung Up In The
Judges' Stand Until They Should Enter The Lists.
The Succeeding Combats Were But Repetitions, With Trifling Variations,
Of Those Just Described. From Dawn, When The Trumpet Sounded For Battle,
Until The Evening Grew So Dark That The Judges Could Not Distinguish The
Combatants, The Defenders Maintained The Pass Against All Comers With
Bravery And Honor.
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The Third Day There Passed Near Orbigo Two Ladies, And The Judges Sent
The King-At-Arms And The Herald To Ascertain Whether They Were Of Noble
Birth And Provided With Knights To Represent Them In The Lists And Win
Them A Passage Through Orbigo, And Also To Request Them To Give Up Their
Right-Hand Gloves. The Ladies Answered That They Were Noble And Were On
A Pilgrimage To Santiago; Their Names Were Leonora And Guiomar De La
Vega; The Former Was Married And Accompanied By Her Husband; The Latter
Was A Widow. The King-At-Arms Then Requested Their Gloves To Be Kept As
A Pledge Until Some Knight Should Ransom Them. Frances Davio, An
Aragonese Knight, Immediately Offered To Do Combat For The Ladies. The
Husband Of Dona Leonora Said That He Had Not Heard Of This Adventure,
And Was Unprepared To Attempt It Then, But If The Ladies Were Allowed To
Retain Their Gloves, As Soon As He Had Accomplished His Pilgrimage He
Would Return And Enter The Lists For Them. The Gloves, However, Were
Retained And Hung In The Judges' Stand. The Matter Caused Some
Discussion, And Finally The Judges Decided That The Gloves Should Not Be
Kept, For Fear It Should Seem That The Defenders Of The Pass Were
Interfering With Pilgrims, And Also On Account Of Juan De La Vega'S
Chivalrous Response. So The Gloves Were Sent On To Astorga To Be
Delivered To Their Owners, And Juan De La Vega Was Absolved From All
Obligation To Ransom Them, "And There Was Strife Among Many Knights As
To Who Should Do Battle For The Sisters."
On The 16Th Of July, Frances Davio Jousted With Lope De Estuniga, And
When The Trial Of Arms Was Ended With Great Honor To Both, Davio Swore
Aloud, So That Many Knights Heard Him, "That Never In The Future Would
He Have A Love-Affair With A Nun, For Up To That Time He Had Loved One,
And It Was For Her Sake That He Had Come To The Pass; And Any One Who
Had Known It Could Have Challenged Him As An Evil-Doer, And He Could Not
Have Defended Himself." Whereat Delena, The Notary And Compiler Of The
Original Record Of The Pass, Exclaims, "To Which I Say That If He Had
Had Any Christian Nobleness, Or Even The Natural Shame Which Leads Every
One To Conceal His Faults, He Would Not Have Made Public Such A
Sacrilegious Scandal, So Dishonorable To The Religious Order And So
Injurious To Christ."
The Same Day The King-At-Arms And Herald Announced To Quinones That A
Gentleman Named Vasco De Barrionuevo, Servant Of Ruy Diaz De Mendoza,
Mayor-Domo Of The King, Had Come To Make Trial Of His Arms, But As He
Was Not A Knight He Prayed Quinones To Confer That Honor On Him.
Quinones Consented, And Commanded Him To Wait At The Entrance Of The
Lists, Whither He And The Nine Defenders Went On Foot Accompanied By A
Great Crowd. Quinones Asked Vasco If He Desired To Become A Knight, And
On His Answering In The Affirmative He Drew His Gilt Sword And Said,
"Sir, Do You Promise To Keep And Guard All The Things Appertaining To
The Noble Order Of Chivalry, And To Die Rather Than Fail In any One Of
Them?" He Swore That He Would Do So, And Quinones, Striking Him On The
Helmet With His Naked Sword, Said, "God Make Thee A Good Knight And Aid
Thee To Live And Act As Every Good Knight Should Do!" After This
Ceremony The New Knight Entered The Lists With Pedro De Los Rios, And
They Ran Seven Courses And Broke Three Lances.
On The Festival Of St. James (July 25Th) Quinones Entered The Lists
Without Three Of The Principal Pieces Of His Armor--Namely, The Visor Of
His Helmet, The Left Vantbrace And Breastplate--And Said, "Knights And
Judges Of This Passo Honroso, Inasmuch As I Announced Through Monreal,
The King'S Herald, That On St. James'S Day There Would Be In This Place
Three Knights, Each Without A Piece Of His Armor, And Each Ready To Run
Volume 26 Title 1 (Lippincott'S Magazine Of Popular Literature And Science) Pg 121Two Courses With Every Knight Who Should Present Himself That Day, Know,
Therefore, That I, Suero De Quinones, Alone Am Those Three Knights, And
Am Prepared To Accomplish What I Proclaimed." The Judges After A Short
Deliberation Answered That They Had No Authority To Permit Him To Risk
His Life In Manifest Opposition To The Regulations Which He Had Sworn To
Obey, And Declared Him Under Arrest, And Forbade All Jousting That Day,
As It Was Sunday And The Festival Of St. James. Quinones Felt Greatly
Grieved At Their Decision, And Told Them That "In The Service Of His
Lady He Had Gone Into Battle Against The Moors In The Kingdom Of Granada
With His Right Arm Bared, And God Had Preserved Him, And Would Do So
Now." The Judges, However, Were Inflexible And Refused To Hear Him.
The Last Day Of July, Late In The Afternoon, There Arrived At The Pass
A Gentleman Named Pedro De Torrecilla, A Retainer Or Squire Of Alfonso
De Deza, But No One Was Willing To Joust With Him, On The Ground That He
Was Not An Hidalgo. The Generous Lope De Estuniga, Hearing This, Offered
To Dub Him A Knight, But Torrecilla Thanked Him And Said He Could Not
Afford To Sustain In becoming Manner The Honor Of Chivalry, But He Would
Make Good The Fact That He Was An Hidalgo. Lope De Estuniga Was So Much
Pleased By This Discreet Answer That He Believed Him Truly Of Gentle
Blood, And To Do Him Honor Entered The Lists With Him. It Was, However,
So Late That They Had Only Time To Run Three Courses, And Then The
Judges Pronounced Their Joust Finished. Torrecilla Esteemed So Highly
The Fact That So Renowned A Knight As Lope De Estuniga Should Have
Condescended To Enter The Lists With Him That He Swore It Was The
Greatest Honor He Had Ever Received In His Life, And He Offered Him His
Services. Estuniga Thanked Him, And Affirmed That He Felt As Much
Honored By Having Jousted With Him As Though He Had Been An Emperor.[7]
A Few Days After The Above Events An Incident Occurred Which Shows How
Contagious The Example Of Quinones And His Followers Was, And To What
Amusing Imitations It Led. A Lombard Trumpeter Made His Appearance At
The Pass, And Said That He Had Been To Santiago On A Pilgrimage, And
While There Had Heard That There Was At The Passo Honroso A Trumpeter Of
The King Of Castile Named Dalmao, Very Celebrated In His Line, And He
Had Gone Thirty Leagues Out Of His Way In Order To Have A Trial Of Skill
With Him; And He Offered To Stake A Good Trumpet Against One Of
Dalmao'S. The Latter Took The Lombard'S Trumpet And Blew So Loud And
Skilfully That The Italian, In Spite Of All His Efforts, Was Obliged To
Confess Himself Conquered, And Gave Up His Trumpet. |
So Far, The Encounters, If Not Entirely Bloodless, Had Not Been
Attended By Any Fatal Accident. The Defenders Had All Been Wounded, More
Or Less Severely: Once Quinones Concealed The Fact Until The End Of The
Joust In Which His Antagonist Had Been Badly Hurt, And It Was Only When
The Knights Were Disarmed That It Was Discovered That Quinones Was
Bleeding Profusely. On Another Occasion His Helmet Was Pierced By His
Adversary'S Lance, The Fragment Of Which He Strove In Vain To Withdraw.
All Believed Him Mortally Wounded, But He Cried, "It Is Nothing! It Is
Nothing! Quinones! Quinones!" And Continued As Though Nothing Had
Occurred. After Three Encounters The Judges Descended From Their Stands
And Made Him Remove His Helmet To See Whether He Was Wounded. When It
Was Found That He Was Not, "Every One Thought That God Had Miraculously
Delivered Him." Quinones Was Also Wounded In His Encounter With Juan De
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