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he then met L’Isle Adam at Messina, and received thecross of profession at his hands; and he now hadrisen to be Marshal of Auvergne when elevated tothe supreme dignity. About two years later is theleave from Grand Master Cassiere to a knight whohad fought in the Turkish wars with distinction, tolive at the order’s expense even out of Malta, orwherever he pleased. He had been in the Capitana15 K 4 ^ Lepanto, and fought until he

could no longer stand, and fell so desperatelywounded that he passed for dead; yet so recoveredthat he lost but an arm, a leg, and an eye. 1 Alas!what a state! Is that recovery? Howbeit, hesurvived, and that there is slight mention of Le-panto in the Cod. Dipl. Geros. is a new proof of towhat glorious feats they were accustomed. Forthem there had been many a Lepanto; and eventhat renowned action was nothing new, nor of sur-passing consequence.

But to one of the Barbary pair succeeds that other—Yerdale; and under this latter it was that Gre-gory XIII. writes that, lest the ancient title of Tur-copolier, distinctive of the head of the English Lan-guage, from the very beginning, as a memorial ofall days, after having been so long pre-eminent over

1 Cod. Dipl. Geros., ii., Num. ccxx.—Seb. Paoli: Osser-vazioni. See Appendix ccxxvi.