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insulam istam universes Italia: arcem ac prasidium esse ;unde pax non modo ad nostros derivari, sed derivata con-servari maxiine potest.

Komae, 15 Martii, 1591.

Ex Cod. Dipl. Geros., ii., Num. cclxiii.

Barbarorum formido et Italiasecuritas docere possunt nationes universas quanti fieridebeat in Europa Hierosolymitani religionis virtus.

17 Junii, 1623.

Ex Cod. Dipl. Geros., ii., Num. ccclviii.,

. . . . . Melyta Melitensium Equitum

fortitudo est. Toti prsecarissimo ccetui immortales aChristianis uniyersis laudes debentur.

So the Pope in 1670.

Ex Cod. Dipl. Geros., ii., Num. ccclxi., et ccclxii.

Two letters from John Sobicski, King of Poland, relatein detail both his famous victories over the Turks on the13th September, at Vienna, and on the 10th of thenext October, in 1683, repassing the Danube, though toolong to insert in this Appendix, will be interesting tosome readers who will find them in the volume cited—surely highly honourable to the Order of Malta, to whoseGrand Master they are directed.

Num. CCXXX.

Ex Cod. Dipl. Geros., ii., Num cc.

Too long also for this Appendix is Valetta’s letter, justafter the siege, to his own Prior, Sir George Hohenstein