310 SWABEY DIARY. 
morning to Villa Franca where we remained and bivyouacked. I went 
and hid my diminished head in the town not thinking it a match for 
the rays of the sun. 
27th August.—Marched at 2 o’clock to Usagre where we bivouacked 
in the old place near Bienvenida. 
28th August.—Marched into quarters at Villa Garcia for the day. 
For the first time since my illness I did the whole of the duty. 
<Ith August.—Marched at 3 o’clock for Berlanga where we got into 
houses. The Spaniards have quite changed their tone in all their 
towns since we were here before. They have suffered the next extreme 
to total ruin. The French have robbed them of all their property, 
carts, mules etc., corn and everything they had time to take away. 
Speaking of the character of these practical oppressions I cannot 
omit a circumstance which sets them out in all their bloody colours. 
At Villa Garcia whilst sitting in my house after dark one of the men 
brought a Spaniard to me declaring he had stolen his jacket, I was 
conversing with a priest who seemed quite lost in surprise because as 
he expressed it, the man did not tremble before me, saying, if I had 
been a French officer he would have been shaking from head to foot 
and most likely would have been hung. When I found no direct proof 
against the man I ordered him to be liberated which still more aston- 
ished the divine who upon enquiry I found out to be a member of the 
Santa Hermandad! or inquisition. 
1“ Holy Brotherhood,”’ associations of cities of Castile and Aragon to defend their liberties, 
began about the middle of the 18th century. The brotherhood was disorganised in 1498, order 
having been firmly established. It is said to have been continued as a voluntary “police.” 
Haydn Dictionary of Dates. 
(To be Continued). 
