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ST. JOHN OF JERUSALEM.

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family maintained with due state by the order, atthirty-six thousand florins a-year. 1

In the spring of 1506, a dispute arising aboutguarding the seashore (very necessary fromthe Turks), and Sir Robert Daniel, the Turco-polier, affirming it was not his duty to furnish thepatrol of above seventy men; and above all he re-fused to allow any knights to examine his sentinels,and in this he was sustained by the whole EnglishLanguage; the grand master referred the business tosix umpires, of whom three were English, theBailiff of the Eagle, and the commanders, Sir 'Wil-liam Dorrell and Sir William Weston, who settledit. 2 Of another chapter general holden in1510, nothing is known now, its recordsbeing lost. 3 And then too the grand master calledhis knightsby acircular, for scarcely was D’Aubussondead, when a Turkish war broke out; not probablywith Bajazet’s wish, for he had been by nature, orhad become a mild man, but from the ferocity ofhis third son and his party. This Selim was ahorrid ruffian, and like Nimrod a great manhunter,and in the way of his strength, murderer of hisfather and brothers; and since his hand was in, and

1 Bosio : par. ii., lib. xvii. 482. 2 Id.: id., id., 487.

3 Id. : id., id., anno 1510.

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