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or disagreeable to him was enacted, so that his deathwas preceded by a gleam of content. He expiredin the spring of that year; for then he was suc-ceeded by Sir Robert de Julliac, Grand Prior ofFrance, elected in Rhodes, but at that time in hispriory. So passing by, he did his homage to thePope, from whom he received the chargeof Smyrna, in the name of his order, withan assignment on the tithes of the kingdom ofCyprus of one thousand livres annually, to main-tain the garrison. 1 Not, certainly, of the hardest,yet hard, at first sight, to find Alls for Hales—Sir Robert Hales, who became the twenty-fourth.Prior of England, towards the close of Edward theThird’s reign. 2 The Scotch as well as the Irishcommanderies formed an integral part of the EnglishLanguage, and its grand priory the grand priory ofEngland. Only the first of the Irish commanderswas indulged with title of prior, in courtesy.Scotland did not think an empty ambiguity worthhaving, though its kings squabbled about it, 3Julliac indubitably was alive in August, 1376, 4

1 Sob. Paoli: Serie, ii. 466.

2 Bosio: par. ii., lib. in., anno 1376.—Appendix, xxx.

3 Id. : Id., anno 1376.

4 Cod. Dipl. Geros., ii., Num. Ixxx.—Sob. Paoli: Serie, ii.466.—Appendix, cxl.