The Life and Letters of Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq, Volumes 1 and 2

book iv. chap. 1, and Von Hammer, book xxxiii. The Spanish historians

cited by Prescott are so conflicting that he defies the reader to reconcile them, but Busbecq’s narrative, as far as it goes, may be considered of the highest authority, as no doubt it was founded on what he heard from his friend Don Alvaro de Sandé, who commanded the garrison. In the spring of 1559 the Duke of Me...