the King. And they did it.

A nameless pain filled the soul of Dom Pedro when on his return he
stood before the bloody corpse of Ines, whom he had loved so well. But
soon another feeling took possession of him, which shut out everything
else--the desire to revenge himself on her murderers. Hastily calling
together the brothers of Ines and some followers who were attached to
his person, he took counsel with them, and then collecting all the
men-at-arms within his reach, he fell upon the neighbouring provinces
and executed a fearful vengeance, both with fire and sword, upon the
innocent inhabitants. How long this rage for devastation might have
lasted cannot be told, but Dom Pedro was at length brought to a better
mind by Goncalo Pereira, Archbishop of Braga, who, by the help of the
Queen, succeeded in establishing peace between father and son.

So a parchment deed was drawn up between the King and the Infant, in
which Dom Pedro undertook to pardon all who had been engaged in the
murder of Ines, and Alfonso promised to forgive those who had taken his
son's side, and borne arms against himself. And for his part Dom Pedro
vowed to perform the duties of a faithful vassal, and to banish from his
presence all turbulent and restless spirits. So peace was made.

Two years had hardly passed after this event before King Alfonso lay on
his death-bed in Lisbon, and then, thinking over what would happen when
he was dead, the feeling gradually came over him that in spite of Dom
Pedro's solemn oath the murderers of Ines would not be safe from his
revenge. Therefore he sent for the three knights, Diogo Lopez Pacheco,
Alvaro Goncalves, and Pedro Coelho, who had counselled him to do the
dreadful deed and had themselves struck the blow, and bade them leave
their property and all they had, and fly while there was yet time to
foreign lands for refuge. The knights saw the wisdom of the advice, and
sought shelter in Castile. Then Alfonso prepared himself to die, the
murder of Ines lying heavy on his soul in his last days (1357).

King Pedro was thirty-seven years old when he ascended the throne, and
his first care was to secure peace to his kingdom. To this end he sent
several embassies to the King of Castile, who made a compact with
Alfonso 'to be the friend of his friends, and the enemy of his enemies.'
The results of this treaty may be easily guessed at. The King of
Portugal engaged to send back to Castile all who had fled to his
domini