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One would suppose that at the sound of such denunciations from so

powerful a source, all the bravoes must have disappeared for

ever. But testimony, of no less authority, obliges us to believe

directly the reverse. This testimony is the most illustrious and

most excellent lord Juan Fernandez de Velasco, Constable of

Castile, High Chamberlain of His Majesty, Duke of the city of

Freas, Count of Haro and Castelnuovo, Lord of the house of

Velasco, and of that of the Seven Infanti of Lara, Governor of

the State of Milan, &c. On the 5th of June, 1593, he also, fully

informed "how great an injury to the common weal, and how

insulting to justice, is the existence of such a class of men,"

requires them anew to quit the country within six days, repeating

very nearly the same threats and injunctions as his predecessor.