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FOURTH BOOK, OR MALTA.

CHAPTER I.

A letter from Charles V. to his viceroy in Sicily,^ ^ ^ directs him to let provisions go to Malta asusual . 1 The Turcopolier, Sir Clement West,got into squabbles far too unimportant to be regis-tered in history, were it not that the unquiet out-rageous conduct of that man led to this of good,an official sentence still existing declaratory that theorder from the most ancient times, above all otherChristian princes, has always had for its chief pro-tector the most serene King of England, and thatit was for the improper words of West, as disgrace-ful to himself as to the order, that the chaptergeneral sent him to prison, and deprived him of

1 Cod. Dipl. Geros., ii., Kimi. clxxviii.