The king and his nobles anfwered, Amen.
I f otherwife, may you fuifer the fame death as that of
my lord ; may a villain kill you, let him not be a gentleman,
nor born in Caftile, but come from foreign
parts, nor be of the kingdom of Leon.
The king and his nobles anfwered, Amen, (a)
After this ceremony, Alfonfo was folemnly proclaimed
king of Caftile, Leon, Galicia, and Portugal, in the pre-
fence o f the infanta his lifter, and the prelates, and
nobles of his kingdom.
As Burgos was formerly a place o f fo great importance
in the affairs o f Caftile, it is impoffible to look with indifference
on thefe venerable remains, or view its magnificent
cathedral, without calling to mind fome particular
period of its ecclefiaftical hiftory ; nOne feems more
ftriking, than when the fon o f a Jew was raifed to that
fee, and became one of its moft illuftrious prelates.
(a) A t the fecond time o f tendering the oath the king changed colour, and at the third
h'e was greatly difpleafed, faying, “ Rodrigo Diaz why do you prefs me fo hard and make
me fwear to-day, when you will come to kifs my hand to-morrow ;” to which that warrior replied,
“ Yes, Sir, if my fervices are properly confidered, for in other kingdoms, knights'are
alfo rewarded, and you muft do'the fame, i f you mean to retain me in your fervice;” which
fpeech the king never forgave, and foon after ordered him to retire out of the kingdom, allowing
him only nine days for that purpofe. The Spaniih chronicles are lull of the achievements
and feats of the Cid. He died in 1099, and is buried in the church of St. Pedro de
Cardena. near Burgos, where his memory is held in the higheft veheration.
Such
Such was Paulus Burgenfis, whofe extraordinary elevation
is worthy of notice. This great man was the fon o f a
rich Jew at Burgos, of the tribe of Levi, whofe name is
not mentioned in hiftory. In the year 1376 Paulus
married Joanna, o f the fame tribe as himfelf, by whom
he had four fons and one daughter. Gonzalo, his eldeft,
bilhop o f Plafencia and Siguenza, Alfonfo, who fuc-
ceeded his father in the fee of Burgos ; Pedro, Alvaro,
Sancho, and Maria, who all at the converfion o f the father,
took the name o f Santa Maria, and when Paulus
was made bilhop o f Carthagena, they alfumed the fir-
name of Carthagena.
Paulus had been for many years firmly attached by
education, and principle to the Jewilh religion, and being
a man o f great learning, enforced his opinions with,
vehemence. At this time the Jews profeifed their religion
publicly in Spain, and held offices o f truft and
emolument. At the age o f forty, Paulus Burgenfis embraced
the Chriftian religion, and on the 21ft o f June,
1390, was publicly baptifed in the cathedral, b y Don
Garci Alfonfo de Cobarruvias, treafurer o f the church,
whofe coat armour was affumed by Paulus, in memory o f
this event, which was a lilly argent, in a field vert. defiring
to have the name o f Paul in baptifm, from his particular
attachment to the facred writings of that great apoftle, o f
whom he ufed to fay, “ Paulus me ad fidem convertit.
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