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squadron, and then police the city by squads. When these preUmi- 

 naries were attended to, the Cross left the Cathedral under a black 

 veil, escorted by the curates, and proceeded to the chapel of the Holy 

 Office, where another infantry company had been stationed with 

 harquebusses, their fusees lighted ; and while the Cross was guided 

 through the same streets as the procession had followed the afternoon 

 before, the procession of penitents came out, beginning with those 

 guilty of minor offenses ; those next to the last wore the Benedictine 

 reconciliation habits, and behind them the effigies of those who had 

 been delivered to the criminal tribunal, the dead as well as the living ; 

 the latter wore vilifying placards indicating their crimes. Each of 

 these penitents had two escorts beside him, citizens appointed by the 

 Holy Office ; on each side they were accompanied by four harque- 

 bussiers of the infantry company already xnentioned. For such a 

 spectacle in these streets, there was an infinite number of onlookers 

 from all parts of the city and the neighborhood, gathered to see it 

 from windows, terraces, and scaffoldings ; but these did not suffice, 

 and they filled the streets, interfering with the Alguacil Mayor who 

 was riding about on horseback, and who was aided by the Familiars 

 and soldiers in clearing the way and making room. On reaching the 

 Plaza Mayor, penitents and sponsors went up and took their seats, 

 the first on the lowest, and on the last at the top, the effigies and 

 those committed to the secular arm, under vaults adorned with flames 

 and horrible and terrifying figures. 



1288. At the same time that the penitents' procession began along 

 the street referred to, the Standard of the Faith proceeded from the 

 Holy Office up the Calle Derecha to the Plaza Mayor past the corner 

 by the Archbishop's residence. It was preceded by a company of 

 mounted harquebussiers of the Royal Guard, and was followed by 

 all the nobles of the city ; behind them came the University faculty 

 with its Beadles with silver maces in their arms, with all the Doctors 

 with their insignia, hoods, and tassels, and then the Rector. 



Directly behind the University came the mace bearers of the City 

 Council with crimson robes and caps and silver maces ; each member 

 of the city administration was accompanied on his right by a Preben- 

 dary of the Cathedral, and in this order both Chapters proceeded, 

 the Dean and Alcaldes bringing up the rear. Behind them came 

 the Kings-at-Arms with silver maces on their shoulders, and then 

 the Alcalde of the Holy Office with the Standard of the Faith, two 

 gentlemen on horseback holding the tassels. Next in order were 

 the members of the Royal Chancery, beginning with the Alguacil 

 Mayor ; then the Alcaldes del Crimen and the Circuit Court Justices ; 



