6 THE HISTORY OF THE ORDER OF [book iv.

Knights.

Servants-at-Arms.

Provence

61

15

Auvergne

25

14

France

57

24

Italy

164

5

England

.1

Germany

13

1

Castille

68

6

Arragon

85

2

They together make five hundred and forty-one;besides whom there were several chaplains in theinns, and other clergy, as their bishop, who thoughmembers of the order, were never permitted to befighting men.

Continentalists will find many of their mostillustrious names. If Italians are singularly nume-rous, Malta was near; and the Bosios, as of Ita-lian extraction, and writing in Italian, may natu-rally have taken more pains to have their country-men’s list complete. As to the hapless EnglishLanguage, though mightily fallen, it was not utterlyannihilated as yet. And those unwilling to cir-cumscribe to one solitary one, the Englishmanpresent at that magnificent danger, may preferthinking that they disguised their names by someforeign termination; valiant hearts, unwilling tobring down persecution on their families at home.