Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Chivalut,
Cotoher became the ^ rand ] E in 1663 ; leavi ^ piety ; So much was S elected his brother ] SKcholas Cotoner to sucd ^^^
The Turks had made inany attem Candia ~ the ancient C ^ Venetians f ? r more than iQO years . In the m any attacks , the Knights of St . John had given assistance to the Christian state 5 and in 1669 ; when a large f ^ capital , there Wa ; ^ a battal 400 & om Ma ^ of the
soldiers of the Teutonic Knights ^ means of defence , however ^ ta rendered by a convention , retaining only three forts on the coast The sieg ^ which lasted ^ t and the Tu ^ Gandia b ein g thus pos ^^ Qttoinans , the Cr ^ of attacky commenced : the erectm ^
fortSj three miles in lengthy and built the Iiaza ^ in 168 ( 3 ., and was succeeded by ( Gregory Caraffa . During his Mastershi p ^ the Christian states wer Knights took part . In 1690 , Garaffii dying , Adrian de Yignaeourfc was elected Gfrand
Master ; he died seven years after , and Perellos de Eoceaful succeeded him . During his administration , Peter the Gf-reat , Emperor of Eussia , sent an ambassador to the Order ; lie came in a style of princely magnificence , and returned loaded with honours . Perellos governed the * Order for 22 years , dying in the year 1720 ; bis good works are monuments of an honourable administration . Mark
Anthony Zondodari was his successor : in his time two large corsair vessels were brought into port ; and soon after an Algerine ship of war carrying 80 guns and 500 men , was captured . Manuel de Villena was . the next Grand Master , Zondodari dying in 1722 . Rumours of Turkish preparations caused the Grand Master still further to strengthen the works ; one of these superb bulwarks ,
called the Floriana , was erected by his order . A Turkish fleet of ten ships came to reconnoitre the forts ; but , after firing a few rounds , saw the hopelessness of attempting hostilities , and took its departure . The French ambassador at the Porte brought about a truce between the Sultan and the Order , which was settled in 1723 . De Villena died in 1736 , and Raymond Despuis succeeded him , but , in four years , was followed by Emanuel Pinto de Fonsesca . . In his mild and
peaceful reign there was a plot laid by a negro slave ( one who had been captured among the Mohammedans , of whom there were in the island as slaves about 4 , 000 ) , to murder the Grand Master ; and by exhibiting his bleeding head in the grand balcony of the palace , make it the signal for the slaves of other knights to follow the example . The plot was discovered , and the chief agents executed . Pinto survived till 1773 . Brydone , who visited the island , describes him as a sensible , clear headed , little old man of ninety . Prancis Ximones de Taxada
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Chivalut,
Cotoher became the ^ rand ] E in 1663 ; leavi ^ piety ; So much was S elected his brother ] SKcholas Cotoner to sucd ^^^
The Turks had made inany attem Candia ~ the ancient C ^ Venetians f ? r more than iQO years . In the m any attacks , the Knights of St . John had given assistance to the Christian state 5 and in 1669 ; when a large f ^ capital , there Wa ; ^ a battal 400 & om Ma ^ of the
soldiers of the Teutonic Knights ^ means of defence , however ^ ta rendered by a convention , retaining only three forts on the coast The sieg ^ which lasted ^ t and the Tu ^ Gandia b ein g thus pos ^^ Qttoinans , the Cr ^ of attacky commenced : the erectm ^
fortSj three miles in lengthy and built the Iiaza ^ in 168 ( 3 ., and was succeeded by ( Gregory Caraffa . During his Mastershi p ^ the Christian states wer Knights took part . In 1690 , Garaffii dying , Adrian de Yignaeourfc was elected Gfrand
Master ; he died seven years after , and Perellos de Eoceaful succeeded him . During his administration , Peter the Gf-reat , Emperor of Eussia , sent an ambassador to the Order ; lie came in a style of princely magnificence , and returned loaded with honours . Perellos governed the * Order for 22 years , dying in the year 1720 ; bis good works are monuments of an honourable administration . Mark
Anthony Zondodari was his successor : in his time two large corsair vessels were brought into port ; and soon after an Algerine ship of war carrying 80 guns and 500 men , was captured . Manuel de Villena was . the next Grand Master , Zondodari dying in 1722 . Rumours of Turkish preparations caused the Grand Master still further to strengthen the works ; one of these superb bulwarks ,
called the Floriana , was erected by his order . A Turkish fleet of ten ships came to reconnoitre the forts ; but , after firing a few rounds , saw the hopelessness of attempting hostilities , and took its departure . The French ambassador at the Porte brought about a truce between the Sultan and the Order , which was settled in 1723 . De Villena died in 1736 , and Raymond Despuis succeeded him , but , in four years , was followed by Emanuel Pinto de Fonsesca . . In his mild and
peaceful reign there was a plot laid by a negro slave ( one who had been captured among the Mohammedans , of whom there were in the island as slaves about 4 , 000 ) , to murder the Grand Master ; and by exhibiting his bleeding head in the grand balcony of the palace , make it the signal for the slaves of other knights to follow the example . The plot was discovered , and the chief agents executed . Pinto survived till 1773 . Brydone , who visited the island , describes him as a sensible , clear headed , little old man of ninety . Prancis Ximones de Taxada