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THE HISTORY OF THE ORDER OF [book HI.

Rebeston, and Sir Robert Dalenson, Commander ofCinghy for England, 1 and after some hours’ debate,was chosen for Grand Master Sir Almeric Amboise,Grand Prior of France, where he was then, hisbrother being prime minister. 2

But Sir Almeric, the instant the knight camewith the news of his election, set off for Rhodes,where he was received with great pomp, the Grand1504 P rior England receiving him on the beach;

and held a chapter general the very nextyear, in which the Turcoplier, Sir Robert Daniel,and Sir Adam Letaud, were the English. 3 And thePrior of England being quite a different person, ason most occasions; if those litres inseparables wereever concentrated in one, it was only during thetwo first centuries of the order; and in Rhodes andMalta inseparable can relate but to their both beingEnglishmen.

Among the extraordinaries are to be observedthe charge of falcons kept for presents, and Amu-rath, Zain’s only son, who (left an infant in Egypt,for how and when he came to Rhodes is notwritten) had become Christian, and he and his

1 Bosio: par. ii., lib. xvi. 471.

2 Seb. Paoli: Serie, ii. 471.

3 Bosio: par. ii., lib. xvii.