The  Bishop  thought  they  wanted  him  par-
ticularly, and  the  besiegers  shouted  up
that  the  Queen  could  come.  In  the  tribunes
the  crowd  jostled  her,  they  tore  her  clothes
half  off  and  knocked  her  down,  and  one  old
woman  slapped  her  face.  Some  men  forced


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THE     BOURNE


a  way  out  through  the  swords  and  spears
and  D.  Diego,  wrapped  in  an  old  cloak,  got
away  unnoticed  to  the  little  church  of  the
Corticela,  which  is  built  in  at  the  north-east
corner  of  the  cathedral.  There  he  com-
municated and  waited.  Presently  came
Dona  Urraca,  but  for  greater  safety  they
stayed  apart.  She  got  away  to  the  convent
of  S.  Martin,  he,  over  roofs  and  under  walls,
crept  in  by  the  window  to  the  house  of  a
certain  Maurinus,  a  draper.  Two  French-
men stood  by  him,  and  thence  he  moved  to
a  cellar.  While  the  Frenchmen  went  off  to
find  horses  on  which  he  could  escape  after
night-fall,  through  the  garden  of  S.  Martin,
a  committee  of  Peter  the  Prior,  the  Abbot
of  S.  Pelayo  Antealtares,  and  Pelayo  Diaz
a  monk  of  the  same  monastery,  waited  on
D.  Diego  and  called  him  out.  They  hid
him  in  the  treasury  of  Antealtares.
The  Compostellans  decided  to  depose  the
Bishop  and  make  peace  with  the  Queen,
but  D.  Diego  got  away  to  Iria.  Then  the
young  king  besieged  Compostella  and  D.
Diego  joined  him  with  vassals  of  the  Tierra
de  Santiago,  and  the  townsfolk  had  to


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surrender  and  the  Queen  had  to  be  ap-
peased. The  citizens  lost  everything,  were
fined  1 50  marks  of  silver,  many  were  exiled.
