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that one point, it makes an exception, and onevery other he deserves an implicit confidence, ashaving been present at Rhodes during the wholesiege. Pie is short; but agrees perfectly not onlyin general, but likewise in what details he gives,with Fontanus, whose relation and Bosio’s hefully verifies,

Amurath, unfortunate Zain’s son, could notescape with L’Isle Adam, or any of the Rhodians,ardently as both he and they wished it, and hetried various disguises, but the tyrant’s wily spiesalways discovered him . 1

1 Bosio : par. iii., lib. i. 4. Not that Bourbon could inten-tionally have said one thing for another, and accused capitally aman he did not believe guilty, but that he believed too easily.The heat of that time came over many. Bourbon was readyto believe all evil of Spaniards, and though Herail was a Portu-guese by birth, ho was of the Language of Castille.

Note. —In the Advocates’ Library at Edinburgh are variouspapers relative to the Hospitallers in that kingdom,* bywhich we see that the Courts of Law had laid it downthere, as far back as the 14th century, that those military knightswere laymen, and paid taxes as such, and were no more subser-vient to the Pope than any other temporal sovereign. TheirCommanderies or Preceptories are not properly Benefices, butonly a resemblance of them. IIow frequent the intercourse be-tween Rhodes and Scotland in 1442 is evidenced by a deed ofGrand Master Lastic granting an annuity to an impoverishedgentleman of the name of D. Scott, to be regularly paid out ofthe order's property in his native country, where he was thenliving, and appears never to have left it.f

* Twenty-five copies of some of these documents were printed lately—but not for sale. Appendix, ccii.t Appendix, cciii.