A History of the Knights of Malta: Or The Order of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem, Volume 2Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, & Roberts, 1858 - 522 pages |
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Page 404 - Anne, by the Grace of God, of Great Britain, France, and Ireland, Queen, Defender of the faith, &c.
Page 482 - Robert that as he was before a free guest of the prior and brethren of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem in England...
Page 499 - ... or any fixed spot of rendezvous, the increasing dangers by which it is threatened, and the plans formed by usurpers to invade its property and ruin it entirely...
Page 512 - Paragraphs 3, 5, 7, 8, and 10, shall be converted into Laws and perpetual Statutes of the Order, in the customary Manner. And the Grand Master (or if he...
Page 500 - Christendom in general, and of every different state in particular;' knowing the impossibility in our present circumstances — the members of our Order being generally dispersed — of preserving all the forms and customs prescribed in our constitution and statutes ; but being, nevertheless, desirous to secure the dignity and the power inherent to the- sovereignty of our Order, by making a proper choice of a successor to D'Aubusson...
Page 451 - Article 1.— The Knights of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem shall give up the city and forts of Malta to the French army : at the same time renouncing in favour of the French Republic, all right of property and sovereignty over that island, together with those of Gozo and Comino. Article 2. — The French Republic shall employ all its credit at the Congress of Rastadt, to procure a principality for the Grand Master...
Page 33 - for upwards of two centuries and a half, waved the banner of St. John, an honor to Christianity and a terror to the infidel of the East." From this time the Order received the designation of