"En tierra de Moros un solo alcalde Libra lo cevil e lo criminal, E todo el dia se esta de valde For la justicia andar muy igual: Alli non es Azo, nin es Decretal, Nin es Roberto, nin la Clementina, Salvo discrecion e buena doctrina, La qual muestra a todos vevir communal." p. 389.
[20] Mendez enumerates no less than five editions of this code, by 1500; a sufficient evidence of its authority, and general reception throughout Castile. Typographia Española, pp. 203, 261, 270.
[21] Ordenanças Reales, Prólogo.--Mem. de la Acad. de Hist., tom. vi. Ilust. 9.--Marina, Ensayo Histórico-Crítico, pp. 390 et seq.--Mendez, Typographia Española, p. 261.--The authors of the three last-mentioned works abundantly disprove Asso y Manuel's insinuation, that Montalavo's code was the fruit of his private study, without any commission for it, and that it gradually usurped an authority which it had not in its origin. (Discurso Preliminar al Ord. de Alcalá.) The injustice of the last remark, indeed, is apparent from the positive declaration of Bernaldez. "Los Reyes mandaron tener en todas las ciudades, villas é lugares el libro de Montalvo, _é por él determinar todas las cosas de justícia para cortar los pléitos_." Reyes Católicos, MS., cap. 42.
[22] Ordenanças Reales, lib. 7, tit. 2, ley 13.
[23] Oviedo, Quincuagenas, MS., bat. 1, quinc. 1, dial. 44.--Sempere notices this feature of the royal policy. Hist. des Cortès, chap. 24.
[25] See the emphatic language, on this and other grievances, of the Castilian commons, in their memorial to the sovereigns, Apendice, No. 10, of Clemencin's valuable compilation. The commons had pressed the measure, as one of the last necessity to the crown, as early as the cortes of Madrigal, in 1476. The reader will find the whole petition extracted by Marina, Teoría, tom. ii. cap. 5.
[26] Salazar de Mendoza, Crón. del Gran Cardenal, cap. 51.--Mem. de la Acad. de Hist., tom. vi. Ilust. 5.--Pulgar, Reyes Católicos, part. 2, cap. 95.--Ordenanças Reales, lib. 6, tit. 4, ley 26;--incorporated also into the Recopilacion of Philip II., lib. 5, tit. 10, cap. 17. See also leyes 3 and 15.
[27] Admiral Enriquez, for instance, resigned 240,000 maravedies of his annual income;--the Duke of Alva, 575,000;--the Duke of Medina Sidonia, 180,000.--The loyal family of the Mendozas were also great losers, but none forfeited so much as the overgrown favorite of Henry IV., Beltran de la Cueva, duke of Albuquerque, who had uniformly supported the royal cause, and whose retrenchment amounted to 1,400,000 maravedies of yearly rent. See the scale of reduction given at length by Señor Clemencin, in Mem. de la Acad., tom. vi. loc. cit.