20 THE HISTORY OF THE ORDER OF [BOOK lit,

Sir William d’Aunay the Tarcopolier, and Sir

John Lambton, are selected as of the most renowned

knights of the English language in 1454. 1 Is heof the family of Dawney in Lodge? 2 A fleet sentby Mahomet II., in 1457, sacked a village on thecoast of Rhodes, and returned with their booty toConstantinople, which was a more grievous loss tothe island than such a small matter seemed to merit;1459 ^° F ^ renc *ered th e Rhodian peasantry timor-

ous, and little propense to tillage ever after.And to escape death, many of them became rene-gades and spies on their own countrymen. 3

Assuredly the good Bosio was engaged (perhapscajoled)into inserting in his history some documentsa little whimsical, which have no existence in theCod. Dipl. Geros.; as that imputed to Caoursinus,the Vice-chancellor of the Order in 1457, thoughscarcely his. Of Milly’s short reign little is re-counted, except that he held two chapters general;one on the 10th of November, in the same year ashis election, and the other on the 10th of Octoberin 1459, wherein Sir Thomas Damport appeared torepresent the turcopolier, as also Sir William Fre-stan and Sir John Langstrother for the English

1 Bosio: par. ii., lib. vii., anno 1454.

2 Lodge: Peerage of Ireland, v. 72.

3 Bosio: par. ii., lib. vii., anno 1457.