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any longer allowed to remain united with thePriory of Bohemia, Moravia, and Austria, as ^49before. So the Poles had resolved to erecta priory for themselves, and humbly apply for themagisterial sanction, Wladislaus Rex, Warsaw, 4th ofApril, 1642. 1

And follows another of his Majesty to the council,on the same, and of the same date . 2

To which we have two years later one of especialcourtesy from Louis XIV ., 3 and a similar ^from the queen mother , 4 both to the GrandMaster Lascaris.

Within some months Grand Master Lascarisdirects a circular to the Prior of France, biddinghim cite every dignitarian, knight, or servant-at-arms, as well as novices, and those youths who intheir childhood had become professed by dispense,and were now eighteen—even such as may haveentered into the French army, or any other militaryservice—to set out instantly for Malta, without asingle exception for those too decrepid to fight, butthat they must appear and be judged on the spot,whether to be declared invalid or not—-all with their

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