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Spain. The city is well inhabited by ancient nobility,
and was formerly the reiidence of their kings. It gave
birth to that illuftrious hero Fernan Gonzales, and near
the place where his- houfe flood, a triumphal arch has
been ere&ed to his memory at the expence o f the city,,
with the following infcription :
FERN ADO GONSALVI CA ST E L L iE ASSERTORI. SViE iE T A T IS
PRiESTANTISSIMO D V C I ' MAGNORVM REGVM GENITORI
SVO.C1VI IN T yS DOMVS AREA SVPTV PVBLICO A D ILLIVS-
NOlVrtNIS E T YRBIS GLORIiE: MEMORIA SEMPITERNAM.
The parifh church o f Santa Gadea (St. Agatha) more-
ancient than, the cathedral, is remarkable for being fireplace,
where that renowned champion Ruy. Diaz de Bibar
alfo a native of Burgos, commonly called the Cid Gam-
peadorUi), obliged kingAlfonfo the 6th., before he was proclaimed,
t6 fwear three times publicly, that he had no
concern in the murder of the late king Sancho his brother,
at the fiege o f Zamora, where he was treache-
roufly flain by a Spanifh knight, whofe name was Heliel
AlfonSj though he is ufually called Velido Dolfos. The:
words of this extraordinary oath were as follows,
You. come to fwear, that you had no hand in the death-
o f my lord the king, that you neither killed him, nor.
gave counfel therein..
. (a) The tide of. Cid. is derived from,an Arabic word which Ggnifies Lord. See,Don Ouix-
ole. It mu# have been common in thofe days, for in the Spanilh chfonictes, it is lomctimes,
given xo. Jews..
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