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Malta is a place where the knights shall be atleast their own masters, and may receive the pre-sents sent by nearly all Christendom.

Thus the order in a somewhat vagrantcourse, and out of its orbit, but not far out of it,wdieeled its third revolution of above two cen-turies with considerable glory, under twentygrand masters . 1

END OF BOOK AND ABEYANCE THE THIRD.

Cod. Dipl. Geros., ii., 563—-172.— Appendix, ccix.

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