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sanction he had obtained in passing throughRome, it was valued by them as so muchwaste paper, or rather nothing. Queen Maryindeed had made him an English citizen. Butwhat of that? Was he such? The magisterial sen-tence was, that he might wear it at the chaptergeneral, but nowhere else; which merits a demuras uncan did and unsatisfactory, as such half mea-sures usually are. If no bailiff, he had no rightto wear it anywhere; if a bailiff, to wear it on alloccasions. He brought with him three real Eng-lish knights, Sir George Dudley, Sir OliverStarkey, Sir James Shelley, brother to the Prior ofEngland, Sir Richard Shelley . 1 : And a few othersbeing already at Malta, as Sir Henry Gerard, nowLieutenant of the Turcopoliership, and Sir EdwardBurrough, Commander of Henly, they set up aregular English hostelrie, or Inn and Language,expecting more knights from England. But suchdreams soon vanished, for in November of thatyear Mary died. Nevertheless, when Valette saton his throne in the chapter general, with the

1 This Prior is not however in the list before me, Appendixxxx., which in Queen Elizabeth’s reign, declares the last Priorof England was Sir William Weston, perfectly agreeing with theCod. Dipl. Geros., and Seh. Paoli’s Observations.—Bosio : par.ii., lib. xix. 396.