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The Shadow of the Cathedral

CHAPTER IV
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The VIII.

of the name showered on the Cathedral a perfect rain of gifts, towns, villages, and mills.

Illescas is ours, and a great part of Esquivias, as also the mortgage on Talavera.

Afterwards came the fighting prelate, Don Rodrigo, who took much land from the Moors, and the Cathedral possesses one principality, the Adelantamiento de Cazorla, with towns like Baza, Niebla, and Alcaraz.

And besides the kings there is a great deal to be said about the nobles, great princes who showed their generosity to the Holy Metropolitan Church.


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