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others say he died in 1206), not only because thereis a deed wherein one of the witnesses is his

1207

successor, still marshal, as Paoli rightlysays, 1 hut likewise, as I remark, because Lo Rathis himself mentioned, though the name be illprinted Lirath in one word, instead of two; andstill more, that in another contract of 1207, he signsto it in full, Lo Rath, Master of the Hospitallers,and writes the name correctly with his own hand.Amongst this document’s witnesses (the alii pluresof the Appendix), is Hugo de Burin, which no doubtmeans Byron); so the late lord (the poet) was notwrong in thinking he had ancestors in the crusades. 2And in another document of that same year, T readamong the witnesses Prater Galfridus Lo Rath. 3Lo Rath, 4 after exerting his insinuating manners

1208 ^ being a peace-maker, as became his age,between the Armenian and Antioch, died in

1208, and his successor as grand master was onewho until then had been marshal, Sir Gawen deMontacute, 5 whom Vertot unhesitatingly dubs Mon-taigu, 6 and that he was a French gentleman. And

1 Cod. Dipl. Geros., Hum. xci., i. 95.—Appendix, lix.

2 Id., Kum. xc., i. 94.—Appendix, lviii.

3 Id., Hum. x., of the Giunta, i. 289.—Ap-

pendix, lxxxv.

4 Is not Lo ! Rath ! Anglo-Saxon? Here! Early one!.

5 Seb. Paoli: Serie, i. 341. 6 Yertot: iii. 367.