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ST. JOHN OE JERUSALEM.

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and of which it was unjust to deprive them. 1Partly assuaged or not, it was during suchstate of things that Milly died on the 17thof August, 1461. 2

Sir Richard Leufort and Sir Myles Scaffo werethe English knights at the ensuing election on thelast Monday of August, 1461. 3 By a most regularplurality of suffrages (whatever said) was thenchosen Sir Peter Raymond Zacosta, a Castilian andat that time in Spain Castellan d’Emposta.

If after so many grand masters had been French,this one of a Spaniard argues, what undue influenceover the election? This single fact may put downa wagon load of speeches. He reigned little longerthan his predecessor, each about six years. FromSpain round by Rome, Zacosta reached Rhodes inJune of 1462. In the chapter general in October,1462 (present Sir John Weston, Commander ofthe magisterial chamber in England, and the tur-copolier’s lieutenant 4 ) holden by the scarcely arrivedZacosta, issued was the decree by which the qucestiovexata was settled with the triumph of Spain, bygiving it another language—that is, by splitting it

1 Yertot: vii. 24.

2 Seb. Paoli: Serie, ii. 469.

3 Bosio : par. ii., lib. vii., anno 1461.—Seb. Paoli; ii. 469,

4 Id. : viii. anno 1463.