This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1891 Excerpt: ... on the day after they left Xarandilla, a terrible hurricane visited that part of the Vera. At Yuste, two of the Emperor's chimneys were blown down, and one took fire and many of his cedars and citrons measured their length upon the discomfited parterres. Two houses fell at Xarandilla, and another was overthrown at ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1891 Excerpt: ... on the day after they left Xarandilla, a terrible hurricane visited that part of the Vera. At Yuste, two of the Emperor's chimneys were blown down, and one took fire and many of his cedars and citrons measured their length upon the discomfited parterres. Two houses fell at Xarandilla, and another was overthrown at Quacos. Father Borja had been selected by the PrincessRegent for a special and secret mission to Lisbon in the autumn, on the delicate subject of the regency of Portugal. He received her summons at Simancas, where he had founded a small Jesuits' house, and whither he loved to escape from the distractions. of the court, to unstinted penance and prayer. The sun of September was scorching the naked plains of 1 Fr. Miguel Pacheeo, Vida de Da. Maria, p. 80, says that the Queens were kept waiting at Badajoz for two months, and that Queen Mary was so weary of waiting that she wanted her sister to give up the meeting and return to Costilla. This can hardly be true, if the Gonzalez MS. and its letters are to be relied on, which state that the Infanta reached Elvas early in January. The Queens were received at Badajoz by two ladies, Manuel, who had been ladies of honour to Queen Isabella, and whose husbands were wealthy nobles of the province. Ch. vn. the Duero, and the good Jesuit was in feeble health. 1557-Nevertheless, he immediately obeyed the Regent's mandate, and repaired to Yuste, by her direction, to hold counsel with the Emperor;1 after which, scorning repose in the cool woodlands, he at once took the road to Portugal across the charred wastes of Estremadura. This haste and the heat threw him into a fever, of which he nearly died in the town of Evora; and when once more able to resume his journey, he was nearly drowned in a squall in crossing the ...
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