SOME LETTERS FROM THE ARCHIVES OF THE KNIGHTS OF ST JOHN, PRESERVED AT VALETTA, MALTA

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• 247 – 8 . Malta Public Library, Bibl. MS. 929, Arch. 57, Liber Epistolarum: ‘Lettere Originali: Scritte al Gran Maestro solo, et al Gran Maestro e Conseglio, dai Re d'Inghilterra e di Polonia, dal Ducca di Baviera, dal Marchese di Brandenburg, dall' Arciduca d'Austria, dal Principe d'Oranges…etc. etc’. This letter is to be found in Mifsud, op. cit. pp., footnote
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• 1932 . The Mariner's Mirror Blake was meanwhile reducing the Scilly Isles and Jersey. See the Rev. J. R. Powell, ‘Blake's reduction of Jersey in 1651’, XVIII 64 ff
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• Memorials of…Sir William Penn , 1 346 Granville Penn,. Mifsud says that the Consul's name was Samuel Boothoule
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• Penn , Granville . 353 op. cit.
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• 248 Op. cit.
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• 250 – 1 . Contained in the same ‘Liber Epistolarum’. Printed by Mgr. Mifsud
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• Probably ‘pratique’ (Ed.)
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• Sic in transcript (Ed.)
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• Tanner , J. R. 1923 . A Descriptive Catalogue of the Naval Manuscripts in the Pepysian Library at Magdalene College, Cambridge 181 IV, Admiralty Journal (printed for the Navy Records Society
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• 1837 . 138 – 9 . Printed in extenso in R. Montgomery Martin, The Story of the British Possessions in the Mediterranean pp. (The British Colonial Library, vol. VII). Charles wrote (in Latin): ‘Not only in dispatches from Admiral Sir John Narbrough, whom we have placed in complete command of our fleet in the Mediterranean, but also from other sources, we have learned with what kindness Your Eminence, and by your command and example the whole sacred Maltese Order, have welcomed our warships. Things could not have been better at home in our own bases than they were in your harbour at Malta.’
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• Dyer , Florence E. 1931 . The Life of Admiral Sir John Narbrough 155
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• Perrin , W. G. 1913 . The Mariner's Mirror , 111 ‘The Diary of Henry Teonge’, 144
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• 1748 . Regia Bibliotheca Melitensis, No. 1205. Lettres de la cour ecrittes a L'Eminentissime Grand Maître Pinto Depuis 1741 jusqu'en
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• The summer house of the Karamanlis, outside the walls of Tripoli West (now known as the ‘Villa Volpe’) is perfectly preserved with its delightful gardens. But at Benghazi the very memory of the Karamanlis seems to have disappeared
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• 1944 . Cambridge Historical Journal ‘The Barbary Corsairs in the Seventeenth Century’, VIII 22
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• To Grand Master Manoel Pinto de Fonseca: Regia Bibliotheca Melitensis, Bibl. MS. 929, Arch. 57, Liber Epistolarum
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• Mifsud . 277 op. cit. p. All the information about Dodsworth is derived from this source unless otherwise stated
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• Journal of the Commissioners for Trade and Plantations 253 (P.R.O., vol. VIII), pp., 257–60. I am indebted to Dr D. B. Horn for this and other references
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• 15 October 1757 . British Diplomatic Representatives 15 October , 115 – 16 . Robert Keith was British Envoy Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary,. Arrived March 1758. Left St Petersburg early October 1762. John Hobart, Earl of Buckingham, Ambassador Extraordinary, arrived St Petersburg 23 Sept. 1762. [D. B. Horn, 1689–1789 (London, 1932), pp.]
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• 1878 . Calendar of Home Office Papers , 1760 As early as 30 June 1762, Capt. Archd. Cleveland, in a letter to the Earl of Egremont, referred to ‘the late Mr Consul Dodsworth’. So it seems that he was already considered to have ceased to be consul.(25 Oct.)-1765 (London
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• 23 In the Malta Library there is a volume (No. 2194) ‘Memoria Sulla rappresentanza fatta dal Gran Maestro alla Corte Britannica relativa a Giov. Dodsworth’. Hannibal P. Scicluna, loc. cit.
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• 1935 . Journal of the Commissioners for Trade & Plantations from January 276 1759 to December 1763 preserved in the P.R.O. (London Stationery Office, 30 April, 4–5-6–7-12 May, 11–23 Nov. 1762, and 20 Jan. 1763, pp., 277, 289, 300, 327
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• 16 August 1768 . Calendar of Home Office Papers 16 August , The British do not seem to have been favourably impressed by this appointment. On, Commodore R. Spry wrote to the Earl of Shelburne, and referred to ‘Mr Angel Rutter, who styles himself Consul at Malta’. 1766–1769. (London, 1879)
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• 75 D. B. Horn, op. cit.
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