Villagarcia. Amongst the relics of that temple, two crucifixes were held in peculiar veneration, one being that which Magdalena had pressed to her dying lips, the other a trophy rescued, by the emperor's old companion in arms, from a Moorish bonfire in the Alpuxarras.' Having no children, Quixada, according to the fashion of his age and nation, declared his soul his heir. On the death of his widow, to whom the life-rent of his whole estate was left, all that part of his property which was in his own power was to be devoted to charitable uses-uses to which the income of Magdalena was also, as we have seen, almost exclusively devoted. The ancient mayorazgo, or entailed estate of the family, passed to an Ocampo, a son of Luis's paternal aunt, who was directed to assume the name of Quixada, and the arms, chequers azure and argent, bordered with the bearings, wolves gules on a field or, of the Osorios. Villagarcia is now the property of the count of Santa Coloma, to whom has likewise descended a portrait of Luis Quixada. The bronzed old soldier is represented as a man of goodly presence; his dark eyes beam with sagacity; and his mouth, shaded by a thick well-trimmed beard, is stamped with firmness of purpose. In a rich though sober suit of black and brown, his red-cross hung from his neck by a gold chain, he stands, staff in hand, as he may have presented himself in the ante-chamber of the regent at Valladolid. William Van Male, the amiable and scholarly gentleman of the emperor's chamber, returned to Flanders, with the slender annual pension of one hundred and fifty florins, which was to be reduced to one half on his succeeding to the keepership of the palace of Bruxelles, Villafañe: Vida de M. de Ulloa, pp. 78, 443. a post of which the king had granted him the reversion. On the seventeenth of February, 1561, Philip the Second wrote from Toledo, to the bishop of Arras, his minister in Flanders, that he had heard that Van Male was likely to compose a history of his majesty, now in glory; that it was possible such a work might contain some things either untrue or unworthy of the merits of the deceased; and that therefore the bishop had better institute a search, as if for some other purpose, amongst Van Male's papers, and if any such writing was found, send it to him to Spain, that it might be burned as it deserved.' The emperor's poor scholar and faithful servant was happily saved from this indignity by the protecting hand of death. On the seventh of March, Arras replied from Bruxelles, that Van Male having died before the receipt of the king's letter, he himself had already taken the precaution of searching amongst his papers for historical documents or notes, but that none had been found. A good many days before his death, Van Male himself, he reported, had been observed to tear up and burn a large quantity of papers. He had also been often heard, by his intimate friends, to lament, even with tears, that Luis Quixada, soon after the emperor's decease, had taken from him, almost by force, the memoirs which his majesty and he had composed; and to say that he hoped nevertheless one day to write, from memory, an account of his master, and that he should have already begun the work had it not been for the infirm state of his health. If this report of Van Male's table-talk be true, it seems plain that the loss of the curious memoirs of Charles the Fifth, composed by himself, and translated into Latin by an elegant scholar, -if indeed they are lost and not only buried in some 1 Papiers de Granvelle, vi. p. 273. 2 Id., vi. p. 290. forgotten hoard of Spanish historic lore,-may be added to the black catalogue of the misdeeds of his dull, bigoted, and cruel son. Van Male was interred in the church of St. Gudule, at Bruxelles, where his widow, Hippolyta Reynen, was laid by his side in 1579. Their epitaph praised the probity and various learning of the husband, and the piety and prudence of the wife.' Their son Charles considerably bettered the fortunes of the family; he was ambassador in France in 1598, and one of the negotiators of the treaty of Verviers for the archduchess infanta Isabella; their grandson, Aurelius Augustus, died in Madrid in 1662, first member of the supreme council of the Netherlands, in the service of Philip the Fourth, and was buried in the church of St. Andrew, beneath an epitaph which was a long relation of dignities and virtues. Of Martin de Gaztelu, the prudent and painstaking secretary of the emperor, my researches have discovered no further trace, beyond the fact that he assisted at the final obsequies of his late master at the Escorial, in 1574. Guyon de Moron, keeper of the imperial wardrobe, is supposed to be identical with Guillaume de Moron, lord of Terny and Beaumont. On his return to Burgundy, he had a dispute with the family of cardinal Granvelle, about certain malversations, alleged by him to have been committed by the great man's relations, in the administration of the royal salt mines. Joining the political party opposed to the cardinal, he repaired to Madrid in 1565, to lay his complaint at the foot of the throne. There, however, he was denounced to the inquisition, an admirable engine for ridding a powerful minister It is cited by M. de Reiffenberg (Lettres de G. Van Male, p. 23), and gives Jan. 1st, 1560, as the date of Van Male's death, which M. Gachard thinks reconcileable with the date in the Granvelle papers, by allowing for the two ways of counting the years, from the 1st Jan, or from Easter. See the Bulletin de l'Acad. Roy. de Bruxelles, 11th Jan., 1845. 2 Reiffenberg: Lettres de G. Van Male, pp. xxiii., xxx., xxxii. of a troublesome opponent; and his revelations on the salt-question were eternally silenced at the stake.' The two physicians Mathys returned to the Netherlands. Henry wrote a treatise on the aphorisms of Hippocrates, and was made physician to the king. Dying in 1565, at Bruxelles, he was buried in the church of St. Gudule, beneath an epitaph placed there by his widow and children. Doctor Cornelio, who had also translated into Latin a Greek book on the healing art, enjoyed a great practice, in pursuing which he was killed by a fall from his horse." From the vigils and dirges of Yuste, Fray Juan de Regla hastened to court to await the arrival of the king.* As prior of Santa Engracia, he had been compelled to retract certain heterodox tenets at the bar of the inquisition. Nevertheless, he now employed his leisure in drawing up two informations against the archbishop of Toledo, which he lodged in the holy office. The principal facts alleged against the prelate were, that at Yuste he had given the emperor absolution before receiving his confession, and that he had bid him be of good cheer, because his sins were wholly washed away by the blood of Christ. These allegations were supported strongly by the 1 G. Groen Van Prinsterer: Archives de la maison d'Orange-Nassau, vol. i. 8vo. Leide: 1835. See the letter from the prince of Orange to count Louis of Nassau, 30th Aug., 1565, p. 277. 2 Val. Andreas: Bibliotheca Belgica, 4to. Lovaine: 1683, p. 362. Jo. Fr. Foppens: Bibliotheca Belgica, 2 vols. 4to. Bruxelles: 1739, i., p. 457. Biographie des hommes remarquables de la Flandre Occidentale, 4 vol. 8vo. Bruges: 1843, i. p. 314. 3 Foppens: Bib. Belg., i., p. 203. His book was Auctuarii Joannis Zachariæ filii methodi medendi, libri vi., 4to. Venetiis 1554, 8vo. Paris: 1555. Biog. de la Fland. occid., i. 303. Leti (Vita di Carlo V.) often cites, and sometimes quotes a document which he calls, Vita e morte di Carlo Cesare nel deserto, by Fray Juan de Regla, but which, being unnoticed by any other author, was probably a fiction of his own busy brain. Perhaps he meant the paper by prior Angulo, about which he may have read in Sandoval. testimony of some of the friars of Yuste, and slightly by that of Don Luis de Avila. Villalva, on the other hand, declared that he had heard nothing unorthodox. fall from the archbishop's lips; while Quixada maintained a politic neutrality, saying he believed that the primate spoke to the emperor about remission of sins, but that his own duties had prevented him from attending to the words.1 When the king returned to Spain, the confessor was graciously received. Honoured with a long audience, he gave Philip an account of the emperor's retirement and death, and told him certain secrets respecting Don John of Austria, confided to him by the dying man for the ear of his successor. It may be fairly supposed that the friar discreetly suppressed his own suggestions, if, indeed, they were his, as to the alteration of the line of succession in Don John's favour: for he was commanded to remain at court as one of the executors of the emperor's will, and received an order for the payment of his pension out of the royal revenues in the see of Calahorra. When the business of the executorship was closed, he returned to Zaragoza, and was again chosen prior of Sta. Engracia. In the autumn of 1568 he was employed to convey to the Escorial some of the earliest treasures of the reliquary, fragments of the holy corpses of the parents of St. Lorenzo, and of St. Justo and St. Pastor. These two young martyrs did him the honour of appearing at several of the early masses which he performed during the journey, and even of serving him in the capacity of acolytes.3 He was afterwards elected prior of the Jeromite convent at Madrid, a house rich with the gifts of kings and queens, and much frequented and favoured by the royal family; and ere long, in spite of his repugnance to the custody of a royal conscience, 1 Llorente: Historia de la Inquisicion de España, cap. xviii., art. 2, 8 tom., 12mo. Barcelona: 1835, iii. p. 238-243. 2 Chap. x. p. 237. Siguença iii., p. 558. |