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380 WAR OF GRANADA. PART of their natural leader, would find it difficult to ral- ly under one common head, or to concert any effec- tive movement. Others, and especially the marquis of Cadiz, urged his release, and even the support of his pretensions against his competitor, the old king of Granada ; insisting that the Moorish em- pire would be more effectually shaken by internal divisions, than by any pressure of its enemies from without. The various arguments were submitted to the queen, who still held her court in the north, and who decided for the release of Abdallah, as a measure best reconciling sound policy with gen- erosity to the vanquished. ^ Ibdailnh^'"' The terms of the treaty, although sufficiently humiliating to the Moslem prince, were not mate- rially different from those proposed by the sultana Zoraya. It was agreed that a truce of two years should be extended to Abdallah, and to such places in Granada as acknowledged his authority. In consideration of which, he stipulated to surrender four hundred Christian captives without ransom, to pay twelve thousand doblas of gold annually to the Spanish sovereigns, and to permit a free passage, as well as furnish supplies, to their troops passing through his territories, for the purpose of carrying on the war against that portion of the kingdom which still adhered to his father. Abdallah more- over bound himself to appear when summoned by 8 Pulear, Reyes Cat61icos, cap. delicacy in regard to an interview 23. — Marmol, Rebelion de Mor- with his royal captive, or indeed iscoSjlib. IjCap. 12. to any part of his deportment to- Charles V. does not seem to wards him. have partaken of his grandfather's