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cognovissem per tuas litteras. Tu siquidem mihi primummunus hoc . . . cui fulcro quodam sustentatus, nihil nonjam me—posse arbitror in hoc meo, imo verius totius or hisChristiani, ordine;—qui Majestatem vestram habuitsemper, et hahet per unicum et singularem protectorem

-Denuo totum hunc ordinem nostrum ab isto regali

pa-pendentem in ejus tutelam-Quantum autem

consilio ac viribus poterimus enitemur ut Protectoretanto ac Tutore digni haheamur. Uti hactemus fecimusita sumus et ardentiore studio (quicquid accidere potest)facturi in posterum.—Majestatem Vestram Deus conservetdiutissime. Melite die, XVI Aprilis, 1535

Regia; Vestrse Majestatis obsequentissimus,addictissimusque Magister Ilospitalis.

Perm Del Ponte.

Num. CCXII.

An English Knight to the Turcopolier, dated Malta,about 1535.

Ex Cotton MSS. Otho, C., ix.f. 109 .

-honourable Sir,—'

“ Leasing to understande, yesterday, by a yong man fromMalta, you had arrived at Myssena, it nearly setmecreazywith gladness, as the .... like lyfe, and dearest of allmoundayne things at present ” And he goes on to recounthis cruise, and a sea-fight, with the Turks north of Corfu,and along the coast of Sclavonia. “ It was near Previsa,XXX m. from Ragusa, on the 27th of October, we met the