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private property, every individual might carryaway as many cannons as could find place in thegalleys. These letters patent being signed by thesultan, were sent to the grand master, to be like-wise signed by him. Which done, the Turkisharmy immediately left their positions, ditches, andmines to within the very heart of the city, and re-tired to about a mile from it. 1

In the Appendix shall be found a copy of theoriginal capitulation, which Tercier asserts he re-ceived from the order’s ambassador at Paris.Doubtless the very truth—its meaning being pre-cisely as stated in all the order’s historians; but theactual document itself now appears for the firsttime in history, or indeed in any book, easily to become with—since Tercier’s pamphlet only exists inthe 26th volume of an immense compilation of 50vols. in 4to. 2

But not all these stipulations were observed by theTurk, and circumstances soon occurred that mightmake him regret what he allowed of, and it wasDivine interposition that the terms had been es-tablished; for at that time he saw his own army sodejected and terrified, it would have been in vainto bid them return to the assault; whereas two daysafterwards fourteen or fifteen thousand fresh

1 Bosio : par. ii., lib. xx. 588. 2 Appendix, ccvii.