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fomalities that distinguish such instruments. 1 He,like his predecessors, praises the Hospitallers, andsays that the Pope was always ready to ascribe fine,holy, and noble things to them, and nothing else.Mild man, he had been bishop of his native city,and loved its quiet, and, as it were, holiness; norwas it very willingly that he sat on the Papalthrone—bidding farewell for ever to his dear home,and at his age ascending the tremendous stairs ofthe stormy Lateran. And to overturn the politics ofJerusalem, one of the three ambassadors expiredat Verona—he of the Temple—on whose courteouswisdom it had relied much. The emperor then therewas the famousFredericI., who (destined to die withinthree years) was soon at Pavia, issuing a confirma-tion of privileges to the Hospitallers in the mostsolemn and flattering manner. It shall be given inthe Appendix. 2 The patriarch and the survivor ofthe grand masters went by France, where they foundPhilip II., a pleasing young king; crossed theChannel to visit the English monarch, on whosesuccour they chiefly calculated, Henry II.; where,in the presence, that rampant patriarch made a

1 Appendix, Num. xiv.

2 Cod. Dipl. Geros., i. 311. Num. xxxii.—Appendix,Num xlv.

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