CONQUEST OF NAVARRE. 353 city, having first obtained assurance of respect for chapter all its franchises and immunities, surrendered ; " a ^^"^' circumstance," devoutly exclaims King Ferdinand,
- ' in which we truly discern the hand of our blessed
Lord, whose miraculous interposition has been visi- ble through all this enterprise, undertaken for the weal of the church, and the extirpation of the accursed schism." ^^ The royal exile, in the mean while, had retreated to Lumbier, where he solicited the assistance of the duke of Longueville, then encamped on the northern frontier for the defence of Bayonne. The French commander, however, stood too much in awe of the English, still lying in Guipuscoa, to weaken himself by a detachment into Navarre ; and the un- fortunate monarch, unsupported, either by his own subjects or his new ally, was compelled to cross the mountains, and take refuge with his family in France.^' 12 Carta del Rey a D. Diego of a parish in his diocese, was, as Deza, Burgos, July 26th, apud Ber- appears from other parts of his naldez, Reyes Catolicos, MS., cap. work, on terms of intimacy. 236. — Histoire du Royaume de 13 Aleson, Annales de Navarre, Navarre, pp. 620-627. — Abarca, torn. v. lib. 35, cap. 15. — Histoire Reyes de Aragon, tom. ii. rey 30, du Royaume de Navarre, p. 622. — cap. 21. — Peter Martyr, Opus Lebrija, De Beilo Navariensi, lib. Epist., epist. 495. — Aleson, An- 1, cap. 4. — "Jean d'Albret you nales de Navarra, tom. v. lib. 35, were born," said Catharine to her cap. 15. unfortunate husband, as they were Bernaldez has incorporated into flying from their kingdom, " and his chronicle several letters of King Jean d'Albret you will die. Had Ferdinand, written during the pro- I been king, and you queen, we gress of the war. It is singular, had been reigning in Navarre at that, coming from so high a source, this moment." (Garibay, Compen- ihey should not have been more dio, tom. iii. lib. 29, cap. 26.) Fa- freely resorted to by the Spanish ther Abarca treats the story as an writers. They are addressed to his old wife's tale, and Garibay as an confessor, Deza, archbishop of Se- old woman for repeating it. Reyes ville, with whom Bernaldez, curate de Aragon, tom. ii. rey 30, cap. 21. VOL. III. 45
