urbed the friars by
barking like a dog. For five successive nights it barked there in the
clear moonlight, always at the same hour, and always arriving from the
east, and flying away towards the west. And four years later, a holy
Capuchin of the New World, Fray Luis Mendez, as he knelt in his
convent-chapel at Guatemala, was blessed with a vision, wherein he saw
the emperor before the judgment-seat of our Lord, making his defence
against the accusing demons, with so much success that he received
honorable acquittal, and was in the end carried off to heaven by the
angels of light.

The codicil of the will of Charles, the only part of the document which
belongs to his life at Yuste, is drawn up with a minuteness of detail
very characteristic of the careful habits of the man. After a profession
of attachment to the church, and hatred of heresy, and after the
directions for his burial which have been already noticed, he proceeds
to describe a monument and an altar-piece which he wished to be erected
in the church of the convent, in the event of Yuste being chosen by his
son for the final resting-place of his bones. The altar-piece was to be
of alabaster, a copy in relief of Titian's picture of the "Last
Judgment," the picture on which he was gazing at the moment when he
first felt the touch of death. A custodia, or sacramental tabernacle,
was likewise to be made of alabaster and marble, and placed between
statues of himself and the empress. They were to be sculptured, kneeling
with hands clasped as in prayer, barefoot, and with uncovered heads, and
clad in sheets like penitents. For further particulars, he referred the
king to Luis Quixada, and the confessor Regla, who were fully instructed
in his meaning and wishes. In case of the removal of his body, instead
of the altar-piece and monument, the convent was to receive a picture
for their altar, of such kind as the king shall appoint. In compliance
with this desire, Philip presented the monks with a copy of Titian's
"Judgment," which adorned their high altar until the suppression of the
convents, in 1823, when it was carried off to the parish church of
Texeda.

The emperor next expresses his concern at hearing that the pensions
which he had granted to the servants whom he had dismissed at
Xarandilla, had been very ill-paid, and he entreats the king to order
their punctual payment for the future. He directs that the friars of
Yuste and the friars from other convents, who h