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be found not strong enough! Why threats andreproofs towards such honest servants? New orderis but the usual scarecrow. Glorious fools like usare not so easy to find. What are we, if not toodevoted and too patient? ”

Limited as Avere Sir Peter’s days, he had a chapterholden at Rhodes, not living as long, as with hisusual in exactitude,Yertot pretends, much less nineyears as Foxans, but twenty-two months as Bosio, 1or rather until about mid autumn of 1355, as Seb.Paoli decides. 2

His successor Was Sir Roger de Pins, likewise ofthe language of Provence, and related to that SirOdo de Pins, who had been the twenty-third grandmaster in Cyprus. This Sir Roger held a chapterat Rhodes likewise, in Avhich many excellentstatutes Avere made for the administration of com-manders, and forbidding servants-at-arms to Avearexactly the same cross as the knights. Prince ofthe utmost courtesy and most merciful feelings, atthe same time a rigid disciplinarian, and of gene-rosity and propriety of conduct, he reigned candidduring ten no candid or quiet years. 3 Of the mostsplendid devotedness was the conduct of the

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1 Bosio: par. ii., lib. ii., anno 1355.

2 Seb. Paoli: Serie, ii. 464. 3 Id. : Id., ii. 464.