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Venetians have just now taken Santa Maura and

1685 •^ >revesa ' 1 Another similar informs the sameof the attack upon Coron, and that one of

the cannons taken at Santa Maura is sent to Maltaas haying belonged to L’Isle Adam. 2 Again thesame to the same some days later. 3 A note concernsMaina. 4

Full of the same praises of the order is this letterfrom Morosini, the Venetian captain general, to the

, nri . grand master in date of Napoli di Eomania

1686

6 Sept., 1686. 5 The doge to the grand mas-ter anew returns to speak of the valiant order andinforms him of the gallant way General Count Cava-lier Heberstein directs his companions, the marvel-lous Knights of Malta, dated in our Ducal Palace die27 Septemb., 1686. 6 Same to same on the 27thof the same month. 7

Indeed a great martial figure in the wars of thattime is the Prior of Hungary of the order of MaltaCount Heberstein, general in the imperial service,and of the league of Malta and Pome with Venice;whose commander-in-chief was Morosini.

Cod. Dipl. Geros., ii., Hum. ccclxv.

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lii.—v. Giunta, 29 th

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