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man, attacked the other most wantonly, and evenwent to the Nile to raise him up an enemy; but theTurkish soldiery declared for their sovereign, andconquered the rebel in fair battle. So after that, itwas no wonder he became an object of fraternalacrimony, begotten on fear.

When the book of statutes was ratified, it wasby a deputation from the chapter-general, througha knight from each Language, and then Sir JohnWeston, Prior of England, was from the English. 1And after the Languages came one deputy from theclerical body, one from the magisterial palace, andone from the treasury,who also was an Englishman,Sir John Kendall, the Turcopolier; and they allswore into the grand master’s hands, that the com-pilation was exact, only leaving out the superfluous.This in 1482, which in one sense may be consideredthe most glorious age of the order, when it had thesultan nearly tributary. Then too was Sir JamesIdeting formally deprived of the Priory of Irelandfor not having obeyed the circular, and come toRhodes during the siege, and worse, refused sendingthe proceeds of the priory ; and in his stead wasappointed a knight who had come, Sir MarmadukeLumley. 2

1 Thirty-first Prior.—Appendix, xxx.

2 Bosio: par. ii., lib. xiii., anno 1482.