Excerpt from A Historic Review of the Order of the Knights Hospitallers of St. John of Jerusalem, of Rhodes, and Malta: With a Clear and Authoritative Account of the Order's Founding, Its Marvelous Achievements Throughout Centuries, Its Kinship and Co-Operation With the Knights of the Temple, Together With an Illuminating Survey of the Movements of Nations and Their The task taken in hand was no light one, but not an hour passed but what gave mental interest to the author. Not possessing the rare publica tions, the writer was generously supplied with the necessary volumes by his knightly friend and well wisher, Sir Frederic H. Willson, p.g.c Grand Recorder of the Order's commanderies in Massa chusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut, who at no small expenditure of money and searchings has secured from abroad invaluable literature. Thus it is that this treatise contains the very cream of authoritative statement relative to this Order, the venerable patriarch of European chivalry. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.