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also to have been a haughty, severe man, and had anot dissimilar end. 1

From a letter to the grand master in answer to apetition from the monastery in the island of Pat-inos is clear, 1st, that he exercised still a protectingpower in the Levant; 2nd, that where St. John theEvangelist wrote the Apocalypse had belonged tothe order during its stay at Rhodes. 2 Undoubt-edly it must have contributed to nourish self-esteemhighly, that the order obtained the highest praisefrom the most venerated sources; nor was laudari alaudato viro ever more exemplified than in theircase; and whoever collects the encomiums of theHospitallers, will form several huge volumes; andstrenuously is it repeated that theirs was then themost useful of human institutions, and the smallspot where they resided ark and bulwark of Italy,nay of the whole civilised world. 3

Yerdale, however, also ended his sojourning in1595, and was succeeded by Garzes, 4 who may nothave been extremely prudent; for I find ClementVIII. complaining of discord at Malta, and attri-buting them not to the Languages,which he seems to

1 Seb. Paoli : Serie ii. 477.

2 Cod. Dipl. Geros., ii., Kum. ccxxxi.—Appendix, ccxxi.

3 Id., Id. ccxxxii. Id., ccxxii.

4 Seb. Paoli: Serie, ii.