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 736 A history of the Knights of Malta. 10. GEORGE DUNDAS. Appointed prior of Scotland, on the resignation of William Knolles, by bull of the Grand-Master d’Amboise, dated Rhodes, 1st July, 1504. Ob. A.D. 1532. 11. WALTER LYNDSAY. Received into the Order by the Turcopolier William Weston, 31St December, 1525. Nominated prior of Scotland by bull of the Grand-Master L’Isle Adam, dated Malta, 6th March, 1532-3. 12. JAMES SANDILANDS. Named prior of Scotland in a bull of the Grand- Master d’Omedes, dated Malta, 2nd April, 1547. Having adopted the Protestant faith, he surrendered the possessions of the priory to the government, and receiving a grant of them to himself with the title of Lord Torphichen, founded the existing family bearing that name. 13. JAMES IRVINE. Is said to have succeeded Sandilands in the nominal dignity of prior of Scotland. 14. DAvW SroN. The last prior of Scotland. PRIORS OF ENGLAND. The following knights have held the office of prior since the revival of the English langue, as recorded in Chapter XXII. 1. Tin REV. SIR ROBERT PEAT, D.D.; G.C. St. - Stanislaus of Poland; chaplain to King George IV. ; Lord-Prior, 29th January, 1831. 2. THE HON. Sin HENRY Dyxoxn, Bart.; Seventeenth hereditary champion of England; Lord-Prior, 15th July, 1838. 3. Lrau. -COLONEL Sin CHARLES MONTOLrEU LAMB, BART.; Baron de St. Hypolite (France); D.C.L.; knight-marshal of the Queen’s household; deputy lieutenant of Sussex and Ayrshire; Lord- Prior, 24th June, 1847. 4. REAR-ADMInAL Sin ALEXANDER DUNDAS YOUNG Anaurmcor; K. Chas. Ill; Medjidie; St. George of Russia; St. Ferdinand, etc.; gentlemau of the privy chamber to Her Majesty; Lord-Prior, 16th July, 1860. 5. His GRACE WILLIAM Dnooo, Duxn OF MANCHESTER; Knight of St. Patrick; Lord-Prior, 24th June, 1861. APPENDIX XII. Memorandum written by Oliver Starkey on the subject of a di.spute as to precedence between the grand-priors of England and Messsna. (Translated from the original, now in the Record Office at Malta.) “On occasion of the dispute and controversy which arose between the most illustrious and very reverend the priors of England and Messina concerning their pre-eminenee, namely, which of the two should take precedence