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Article THE LIFE OF XIMENES, ARCHBISHOP OF TOLEDO. ← Page 4 of 6 →
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The Life Of Ximenes, Archbishop Of Toledo.
rable , as well as the most skilful among them , to defend the rights of the chapter near the Holy Seat , and to oppose the Archbishop , if he wished to introduce novelties Alphonsus Albornoz was charged with this deputation , and departed iu haste . Notwithstanding the secrecy of their deliberations , Ximenes heard of it , and considered it of importance to oblige to their dutyby an example of excessive severitythose spirits whom
, , he saw inclined to disobedience and revolt . He dispatched , by the authority of the court , a provost to the port , whence the canon was to embark , with orders to arrest him when he arrived : and because it was possible that he might already have taken ship , he sent , at the same time , two expeditious oflicers and men of confidence , with authority to take a galley from the port , aud to make for Italy before him .
The Queen wrote to D . Garcilasso , her ambassador at Rome , to prevent Albornoz's approach , and to send him back into Spain . The affair succeeded according to Ximenes ' s project ; the officers landed at Ostie before Albornoz's arrival . The ambassador had advice of it , and immediately attended . Having heard of his arrival , the . next morning he invited him to his house , detained him to dine , signified
to him the orders he had received from the Queen , and gave him up into the possession of the officers , who conducted him back into Spain as a state criminal . He was confined in a castle near Valencia , after which he was conducted to Alcula , where he remained six months in confinement , or rather iu protracted liberty , guarded by two archerswho did not lose siht of him .
, g The punishment of this canon astonished the others : however , when the Archbishop was at Toledo , he encouraged their hopes ; and , in his private interviews with them , often quoted the words of the ; prophet Elijah , i Kings , xix . 12 . ' He was come , not with fire and earthquakes , but with a small still voice . ' He explained himself , and informed them that his intention was not to have confined them to
a monkish life , but to regulate them by the institution of St . Augustine , several customs of whom they still preserved . With respect to the retreat of the officials , he exhorted them to establish it amongst themselves , that at the sig ht of the sacred altars , and in celebrating the holy mysteries , with a greater degree of ardour and recollection , they mig ht be more reserved .
Their Catholic Majesties , however , after having taken possession of the states of Arragon , separated . Ferdinand took the road for Catalonia , and advanced toward Girenne , to oppose- the design entertained by the French against that place . Isabella . went to Burgos , accompanied thither by Ximenes . Some time since they had concluded upon a double marriage between D . Juan , Prince of Spain ,
their son , and Margaret , only daughter of the Emperor Maximilian ; and between the Infanta Jane , their second daughter , with the Archduke Philip of Austria , eldest son of the same Emperor . A large fleet was prepared at the port of Laredo , where the latter Princess was to embark . The Queen had resolved to conduct her to this place ; and , before she passed into Flanders , to give her some advice . But because the road from Burgos to Laredo is intercepted by mountains ,
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The Life Of Ximenes, Archbishop Of Toledo.
rable , as well as the most skilful among them , to defend the rights of the chapter near the Holy Seat , and to oppose the Archbishop , if he wished to introduce novelties Alphonsus Albornoz was charged with this deputation , and departed iu haste . Notwithstanding the secrecy of their deliberations , Ximenes heard of it , and considered it of importance to oblige to their dutyby an example of excessive severitythose spirits whom
, , he saw inclined to disobedience and revolt . He dispatched , by the authority of the court , a provost to the port , whence the canon was to embark , with orders to arrest him when he arrived : and because it was possible that he might already have taken ship , he sent , at the same time , two expeditious oflicers and men of confidence , with authority to take a galley from the port , aud to make for Italy before him .
The Queen wrote to D . Garcilasso , her ambassador at Rome , to prevent Albornoz's approach , and to send him back into Spain . The affair succeeded according to Ximenes ' s project ; the officers landed at Ostie before Albornoz's arrival . The ambassador had advice of it , and immediately attended . Having heard of his arrival , the . next morning he invited him to his house , detained him to dine , signified
to him the orders he had received from the Queen , and gave him up into the possession of the officers , who conducted him back into Spain as a state criminal . He was confined in a castle near Valencia , after which he was conducted to Alcula , where he remained six months in confinement , or rather iu protracted liberty , guarded by two archerswho did not lose siht of him .
, g The punishment of this canon astonished the others : however , when the Archbishop was at Toledo , he encouraged their hopes ; and , in his private interviews with them , often quoted the words of the ; prophet Elijah , i Kings , xix . 12 . ' He was come , not with fire and earthquakes , but with a small still voice . ' He explained himself , and informed them that his intention was not to have confined them to
a monkish life , but to regulate them by the institution of St . Augustine , several customs of whom they still preserved . With respect to the retreat of the officials , he exhorted them to establish it amongst themselves , that at the sig ht of the sacred altars , and in celebrating the holy mysteries , with a greater degree of ardour and recollection , they mig ht be more reserved .
Their Catholic Majesties , however , after having taken possession of the states of Arragon , separated . Ferdinand took the road for Catalonia , and advanced toward Girenne , to oppose- the design entertained by the French against that place . Isabella . went to Burgos , accompanied thither by Ximenes . Some time since they had concluded upon a double marriage between D . Juan , Prince of Spain ,
their son , and Margaret , only daughter of the Emperor Maximilian ; and between the Infanta Jane , their second daughter , with the Archduke Philip of Austria , eldest son of the same Emperor . A large fleet was prepared at the port of Laredo , where the latter Princess was to embark . The Queen had resolved to conduct her to this place ; and , before she passed into Flanders , to give her some advice . But because the road from Burgos to Laredo is intercepted by mountains ,