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Of the tyrant then follows a description, fromwhich be only selected that he was of middlestature, and rather handsome features, a littlebrown, with black eyes, that denote cruelty. “ Buthe was on horseback, when I saw him, and it wasbut once, and for a moment,” says Fontanus . 1

Nor he, nor these documents speak about thePortuguese accused of having been an arch traitor,and found out and put to death; but Bosio does,who were himself an authority, if he had not toldus Bourbon was his only one.

Sir Andrew de Merail 2 had risen through all thegradations, from simple knight (for he was of illus-trious nobility) to the second post of the order,when,because he was not elected to the first, he changed(all at once),being then rather above sixty, and untilthat moment reverenced by all who knew him, ac-tually holding the offices of grand chancellor of theorder, as well as Grand Prior of Castille, head of thetriumvirate of the treasury. But on L’Isle Adam’selection,he is said to have burst out towards a Spanishcommander of his acquaintance, an excellent noble-

1 Fontanus: 375.

2 Bosio and the Italians have Amaral, whence some think itan old way of writing, and that he was a noted admiral, therather that he had distinguished himself in various naval actions.Grand Admiral he could never have been, since that dignitybelongs to the head of the language of Italy. Gouvememcnt,Vertot: v. 354.