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The History Of The Order Of St. John Of Jerusalem*
abryele mon boure en la froide montagne . " It is rather , therefore , disingenuous in our author AA'hen ( vol . i ., p . 153 ) he gives us a translation of this deed ( the next page ackiioAvledging in a note that its date can only be gathered from a context ) in the following terms : " I give to the said House of the Hospital and all tlie Brethren xvithin itan habitation built on the monale
, , called AVood Mount , in the cold mountain ( in Sicily ) and of the Castle of S . Abraham ( near Bethlehem ) , and I make this my donation in the year 1100 . " AVe cannot fincl any tiling corroborative in the appendix of authorities to which Ave are referred , and therefore if the confession of the author in the paragraph immediately folloAxing : " There are many mistakes in the deed
as come CIOAVU to us , and as it coulcl not have been Avritten by Godfrey , "—be admitted , it may also fully be so for this translation . Our author has , it must be confessed , a somexvliat noA'el standard of the value of eA'idence , as may be seen a feAV lines farther : " Circumstantiality is a dangerous thing , and he that hazards it may lose his credit as an historian ; leaving himself
open to the accusation of . dealing rather in fancies than realities , because he could not be present . " And yet just before , from p . 148 to p . 153 , xx e have an imaginary conversation hazarded , perhaps copied from Paoli , xiith Tancred , and the martyred
Gerard lying hamstrung ( AA'hom Albert Aquensis brought back on horseback , ancl unhurt ) , ancl Avith Godfrey , " all Normans , all tln * ee : " in it a supposititious deed and the entire statutes of the Order are given in extenso ; here AVC fincl the exact day on Avhich Gerard Avas sent as hostage to the Infidels , AA'hich our author discOA'ers to be ( authority not cited)—12 th August , 1099 ,
" xvas trxdy the commencement of the military order ; so let it be a holy memorial to all ages of the founder of all , to AA'hich I ( Godfrey ) here consent . " These opinions , perhaps fortunately for the Chevalier Taaffe , are not original . They were first promulgated by A . Bosio ( Istoria della Militia de S . Giovanni Gerosolimitanofol . Rom .
, 1594—1621 , and a second edition , 1684 ) , Avho is particularly strenuous for the Order of xvhich he xvas secretary , and xvlio tells us , cap . xvi . p . 349 , " Net torto manifesto che I'immortale beato Gerard ha ricevuto dagli storici , " & c . ; in which he AA'as folloAved by the tAvo Paolis . In 1781 , the nepheAV published a ponderous quartoexclusix'eldedicated to the same themeas eA * ineed b
, y , y the heading of his fifth chapter ( p . 116 ) : "La religione d ' e cavalieri ospetalrj comincio e fu sempre militare . " This is the guide principally folloAved by our author , in all the plenitude of Italian superlatives and hyperbole , and Avhom ( vol . i ., p . 269 ) , lamenting that the death of both had brought thus prematurely
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
The History Of The Order Of St. John Of Jerusalem*
abryele mon boure en la froide montagne . " It is rather , therefore , disingenuous in our author AA'hen ( vol . i ., p . 153 ) he gives us a translation of this deed ( the next page ackiioAvledging in a note that its date can only be gathered from a context ) in the following terms : " I give to the said House of the Hospital and all tlie Brethren xvithin itan habitation built on the monale
, , called AVood Mount , in the cold mountain ( in Sicily ) and of the Castle of S . Abraham ( near Bethlehem ) , and I make this my donation in the year 1100 . " AVe cannot fincl any tiling corroborative in the appendix of authorities to which Ave are referred , and therefore if the confession of the author in the paragraph immediately folloAxing : " There are many mistakes in the deed
as come CIOAVU to us , and as it coulcl not have been Avritten by Godfrey , "—be admitted , it may also fully be so for this translation . Our author has , it must be confessed , a somexvliat noA'el standard of the value of eA'idence , as may be seen a feAV lines farther : " Circumstantiality is a dangerous thing , and he that hazards it may lose his credit as an historian ; leaving himself
open to the accusation of . dealing rather in fancies than realities , because he could not be present . " And yet just before , from p . 148 to p . 153 , xx e have an imaginary conversation hazarded , perhaps copied from Paoli , xiith Tancred , and the martyred
Gerard lying hamstrung ( AA'hom Albert Aquensis brought back on horseback , ancl unhurt ) , ancl Avith Godfrey , " all Normans , all tln * ee : " in it a supposititious deed and the entire statutes of the Order are given in extenso ; here AVC fincl the exact day on Avhich Gerard Avas sent as hostage to the Infidels , AA'hich our author discOA'ers to be ( authority not cited)—12 th August , 1099 ,
" xvas trxdy the commencement of the military order ; so let it be a holy memorial to all ages of the founder of all , to AA'hich I ( Godfrey ) here consent . " These opinions , perhaps fortunately for the Chevalier Taaffe , are not original . They were first promulgated by A . Bosio ( Istoria della Militia de S . Giovanni Gerosolimitanofol . Rom .
, 1594—1621 , and a second edition , 1684 ) , Avho is particularly strenuous for the Order of xvhich he xvas secretary , and xvlio tells us , cap . xvi . p . 349 , " Net torto manifesto che I'immortale beato Gerard ha ricevuto dagli storici , " & c . ; in which he AA'as folloAved by the tAvo Paolis . In 1781 , the nepheAV published a ponderous quartoexclusix'eldedicated to the same themeas eA * ineed b
, y , y the heading of his fifth chapter ( p . 116 ) : "La religione d ' e cavalieri ospetalrj comincio e fu sempre militare . " This is the guide principally folloAved by our author , in all the plenitude of Italian superlatives and hyperbole , and Avhom ( vol . i ., p . 269 ) , lamenting that the death of both had brought thus prematurely