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post, and the horses for the private use and comfortof him whom I look up to and love as my father.” 11498 fourth chapter general had just ended,

in which Sir Thomas Docraiwas the Turco-polier ; the procurator for the English Language,Sir Thomas Tefi; and of the sixteen, two English-men, the Turcopolier and Sir William Weston;absent were the Prior of England and the Bailiff ofthe Eagle.

But what was most consolatory to him was, thatinstead of a league against the throne of France, heprocured peace with it, and a league of all Christ-endom against the Mahometans; and he himself

was named captain-general; and if this wasJLDUU t

attended with great expense to the order,his knights all rose when the offer was announcedin council, and most affectionately entreated him. toaccept; for that, whatever was the expense, theirhaving their chief generalissimo to all Christendomwas too dear and signal an honour to be refused atany price. Yet was he far wiser than not toperceive the futility of any such league. “ Twothings are absolutely necessary,” he exclaimed,“ neither of which, you’ll see, will be maintained—that each power should be exact as to contingentsand pay, and that the armament should not break1 Bosio : par. ii., lib. xv., anno 1499.