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ST. JOHN OF JERUSALEM.

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Raymond is said to have been a Frenchman, andprobably he was born in France, though that is notproved, but his parents were Italian, and thefamily Del Poggio, its original name, translated, ormistranslated into Du Puys, was from Lucca, andLucchese antiquaries still boast of him as theircountryman. 1 “ In Avenione et Parisiis et aliispartibus Francke’’ (says the Juramentum Fidelitatisof 1331, still extant in the Lucca archives), “ areliving the Del Poggio, Lucanis civil) us; who there-fore, not to lose their privileges, claim to swearallegiance through their attorney.” In every re-spect it could not but have been a flattering conso-lation to Raymond, in these his last days, that aPope who, as a Tuscan, was his own countryman,wrote a bull, as highly laudatory of his order andhimself as what Innocent II. had written; and ifthat bull of Eugenius be lost, yet the substance ofit, and a copy of Raymond’s bye-laws, which it con-tained, are come down through another of thePopes; 2 and that they passed for a rule was nofault of him, nor of the Pontiff either.

And here I have to prepare for leaving my bestof guides, the mild, intelligent, and most conscien-

1 Cod. Dipl. Geros., i. 335.—Bosio: par. 1, lib. ii. anno 1160.

2 P. A. Paoli : 219.—Platina: iii. 23.—Appendix, xiv., firstand fifth paragraphs.