The wounds received the 28th of July were, unfortunately, sufficiently healed by the 6th of August to enable him to enter the lists with the unhappy Esberte de Claramonte, an Aragonese.  “Would to God,” exclaims the chronicler, “he had never come here!” In the ninth encounter Quinones’ lance entered his antagonist’s left eye and penetrated the brain.  The luckless knight broke his lance in the ground, was lifted from his saddle by the force of the blow, and fell dead without uttering a word; “and his face seemed like the face of one who had been dead two hours.”  The Aragonese and Catalans present bewailed his death loudly, and Quinones was grieved in his soul at such a great misfortune.  Every possible honor was shown the dead knight, and the welfare of his soul was not forgotten.  Master Anton, Quinones’ confessor, and the other priests were sent for to administer the sacraments, and Quinones begged them to chant the Responsorium[8] over the body, as was customary in the Church, and do in all respects as though he himself were the dead man.  The priest replied that the Church did not consider as sons those who died in such exercises, for they could not be performed without mortal sin, neither did she intercede for their souls; in proof whereof he referred to the canonical law, cap. de Torneamentis.[9] However, at the earnest request of Quinones, Messer Anton went with a letter to the bishop of Astorga to ask leave to bury Claramonte in holy ground, Quinones promising if it were granted to take the dead knight to Leon and bury him in his own family chapel.  Meanwhile, they bore the body to the hermitage of Santa Catalina, near the bridge of Orbigo, and there it remained until night, when Messer Anton returned without the desired license; so they buried Claramonte in unconsecrated ground near the hermitage, with all possible honor and amid the tears of the assembled knights.  This mournful event does not seem, however, to have made a very deep impression, for that same afternoon the jousting was continued.

The remaining days were marked by no unusual occurrence:  several were seriously but not fatally wounded, and one by one the defenders of the Pass were disabled; so that when the 9th of August, the last day of the jousts, arrived, Sancho de Ravenal was the only one of the ten defenders who was able to enter the lists.  He maintained the Pass that day against two knights, and then the jousts were declared ended.  When the decision was known there was great rejoicing and blowing of trumpets, and the lists were illuminated with torches.  The judges returned the spurs which still hung in the stand to the owners who through lack of time had not been able to joust.  Quinones and eight of his companions (Lope de Aller was confined to his bed by his wounds) entered the lists in the same manner and order as on the first day, and halting before the judges Quinones addressed them as follows:  “It is known to Your Honors how I presented