CONTENTS

OF

THE SECOND VOLUME.

Introduction p age i

A Chronological Historical Table (with Observations) of the Grand-Masters and ofthe Hospitaller Order of St. John of Jerusalem, from the Reign of Gerard tothat of L’Isle Adam; together with the Dates of the principal Events whichtook place during their respective Masterships, many of which are erroneouslystated in the different Histories of Malta hitherto published, though in otherRespects those Histories may be extremely accurate - xiii

BOOK I.

FROM THE FIRST ESTABLISHMENT OF THE ORDER IN MALTA, TO THE FOUNDATION

OF THE CITY LA VALETTA.

CHAPTER I.

The Order of St. John first established at Jerusalem; afterwards in the Island ofRhodes. Rhodes besieged by Solyman. The gallant Defence made by L’lsleAdam. Number of his Troops. One of the principal Dignitaries of the Orderput to Death for Treason. Surrender of the Island. Depredations of theTurks, which were almost immediately stopped, and the Arms and Escutcheonsbelonging to the Knights preserved. Solyman visits the Grand-Master : theirConversation. The Knights embark, together with the Inhabitants, and takewith them the Archives of the Order and the Relics. Their Fleet is forced, bya Tempest, to take Shelter in the Island of Cyprus; after which it arrives onthe Coast of Naples, and anchors at Messina. The Pope issues a Bull to pre-vent the Knights quitting the Grand-Master. Trial of those Knights who had

VOL. II.

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