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much—perhaps as much as it conscientiously could—he undertook various long voyages and journeys,including to England, where the crown gives asafe-conduct for him, and a suite of a hundred per-sons, and their horses, goods, and harness, on the8th of March, 1410; and finally at Anconain Italy, in the last days of 1419, he pleadedthe aforesaid revocations, and persuaded all he couldassemble of his till then refractory knights, to recog-nise the reigning Pope (Martin V.), which put anend to the schism; and pardon was promulgated,and a seal on the past. 1 Back at Rhodes, after anabsence of eleven years, he convened a chaptergeneral there in 1420; where divers statutes

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of great moment were made, amongst whichparticularly deserving of notice are:—

1. — That no knight under what pretext soevercan cite a companion before any other tribunals,ecclesiastical or civil, than those of his order alone.

2. —That none but a member can be present atits chapter general. And in three months after ithe died in June, 1421. 2 Able prince as his dip-lomatic labours show, having been ambassador for

1 Cod. Dipl. Geros., ii., Num. xcii.—Bosio : par. ii., lib. iv.,anno 1420.—Appendix, cxlv.

2 Seb. Paoli: Serie, ii. 468.—Statuti Tit. vii. 10, 41.—Bosio : par. ii., lib. iv. 138—Yertot: vi. 377.