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356 $67$ Thevenot, Voyages dans le Levant, Eng. Transl. 1687, p. 117, states that he saw this head over the St. Catherine gate, but that, some years before his visit, it had been removed from the gate looking towards the den of the dragon, by which it is to be presumed that he means the Amboise gate. Other travellers state they saw the head over St. John's gate (see A. Berg, Die Insel Rhodus, Braunschweig, 1862, pt. i. p. 90). It is possible, therefore, that the head may have been shifted from gate to gate.

$68$ L. Ross, Inscriptiones Græcææ Ineditæ, iii. No. 274. See his Reisen auf den Griechischen Inseln, iii. p. 84. After the destruction of the church of St. John by an explosion in 1856, this inscription was presented by the Pasha of Rhodes to H.E.H. the Prince of Wales on his visit to Rhodes.

$69$ L. Ross, Reisen, iv. p. 56.

$70$ A. Berg, Die Insel Rhodus, pt. ii. p. 44.

$71$ Ibid. pt. ii. pp. 60, 72.

$72$ Ibid. pt. ii. p. 38.

$73$ From this inscription it appears that there were two knights of this name about the same period. The one was Turcopolier in 1500, and died in 1502, as we see by this inscription. The other was Bailiff of Caspe and Cantaniera, and also Bailiff of Eagle (in co. Line.) in 1513. He was sent at the close of the year 1517 into England to entreat aid against the Turks. Having obtained some assistance, he was returning to Rhodes, when he was driven by a tempest back to the coast of England, where he and his followers perished in August, 1552. Three original letters from him to Cardinal Wolsey,' in 1517, are preserved in Cotton MSS., Otho, C. ix.

$74$ The form in this inscription may be compared with kindred forms, Ross, Inscript. Ined. iii. No. 265.

$75$ The name of this sculptor is not given in the list of Greek artists in H. Brunn's Geschichte.

$76$ Guérin, Voyage dans I'ile de Rhodes, Paris, 1856, p. 169.

$77$ Guillelmi Caoursin, Rhodiorum Vice-Cancellarii, Obsidionis Rhodie Urbis Descriptio, Ulm, 1496, p. 8. Cf Berg, pt. i. p. 56.

$78$ Ross, Reisen, iii. p. 86.

$79$ Ross, Archäologische Aufsätze, Leipsig, 1861, pt. ii. pp. 384-89.

$80$ With these ornaments may be compared an ear-ring, found