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composition. Which done, the Duke of Saxony and 

 Sir Edward Poynings treated with them of Bruges, 

 to submit themselves to Maximilian their lord ; which 

 after some time they did, paying, in some good part, 

 the charge of the war, whereby the Almains and 

 foreign succours were dismissed. The example of 

 Bruges other of the revolted towns followed ; so that 

 Maximilian grew to be out of danger, but, as his 

 manner was to handle matters, never out of necessity. 

 And Sir Edward Poynings, after he had continued 

 at Sluice some good while till all things were 

 settled, returned unto the king, being then before 

 Boloign. 



Somewhat about this time came letters from Fer- 

 dinando and Isabella, King and Queen of Spain ; 

 signifying the final conquest of Granada from the 

 Moors ; which action, in itself so worthy, King Fer- 

 dinando, whose manner was never to lose any virtue 

 for the shewing, had expressed and displayed in his 

 letters at large, with all the particularities and reli 

 gious punctos and ceremonies, that were observed in 

 the reception of that city and kingdom : shewing, 

 amongst other things, that the king would not by 

 any means in person enter the city, until he had 

 first aloof seen the cross set up upon the greater 

 tower of Granada, whereby it became Christian 

 ground. That likewise, before he would enter, he 

 did homage to God above, pronouncing by an herald 

 from the height of that tower, that he did acknow 

 ledge to have recovered that kingdom by the help of 

 God Almighty, and the glorious Virgin, and the 



