^{page 6 note 1} The authorities for the statements which follow are, in addition to other inscribed slabs, to be described later:

Bosio, Giae., Istoria della Sacra Religione di S. Giovanni Gierosolimitano, vol. ii (1630) pp. 322 A, B, 325 A, 328 B, 523 C–525 E, 541 D (who calls him ‘Bossolx’)Google Scholar; Newton, C. T. and Pullan, R. V., History of Discoveries at Halicarnassus, &c. (1863), vol. ii, pt. ii, p. 665Google Scholar; Brit. Mus. Add. MS. 30993 ; Le Roulx, J. Delaville, Les Archives de l'Ordre de l'Hôpital dans la Pénhmule Ibérique in Noucelles Archives den Missions Scientifiques et Littéraires iv (1893), p. 270Google Scholar; G. Gerola, Il Castello di S. Pietro in Anatolia ed i suoi stemmi dei Cavalieri di Rodi in Rivista Araldica (1915), pp. 1–10, 67–78, 216–27.

^{page 7 note 1} Il clie era cosa di gran compassione ; per essere il detto Bossolx vecchissimo, e decrepito. Bosio, ii, p. 523 C.

^{page 7 note 2} N. Feliu de la Peña y Farell, Annles de, Cataluña, iii (1709), p. 111. The name is spelt Buxols in the index to this work.

^{page 7 note 3} F. de Sagarra, Sigilografia Catalina, p. 88.

^{page 8 note 1} Proceedings, xiv, 281. I owe the reference to Mr. Mill Stephenson.

^{page 8 note 2} Trans. Quatuor Coronati Lodge, vol: xvii, pp. 74–83 (1904)Google Scholar. I owe it to the late Admiral Markham that I am able to refer to this publication. It is unfortunate that the details of the Boxols shield in his photograph are so obscure that it will not repay reproduction.

^{page 8 note 3} In the Annuario of the Italian School of Archaeology at Athens, vols. and ii (1914, 1915). The heraldry of Rhodes receives special treatment by him in the Rivista Araldica, 1913–14.

^{page 8 note 4} His results are given in the Riv. Araldica for 1915 (see above, p. 6, note 1). His article on the castle in the Nuova Antologia, Nov. 1915, pp. 93–6, is for popular consumption. I have to thank Signor Gerola for his most courteous replies to certain queries addressed to him by me in connexion with the subject of this communication.

^{page 9 note 1} It is, however, worth while to put on record here the identifications of two English coats, by Mr. Mill Stephenson and Col. Croft Lyons respectively. Signor Gerola describes the first (pp. 224–5) thus : ‘Di ‥‥ allo scaglione dentato di ‥‥ accompagnato da tre bisanti (o tortelli) di ‥‥ posti due in capo ed uno in punta. Ha il capo dell' Ordine.’ It occurs on the sinister side of a group of which the centre is occupied by a shield with the coat of Pierre d'Aubusson (or, a cross ancré gu.) as cardinal quartering the cross of the Order, and the dexter by a shield bearing a cross (presumably of St. George) in a garter. This seems to indicate that the group of shields was put up by an English castellan. It is dated 1498 (Gerola prints 1493 in one place, 1498 in another, but informs me that his notes confirm the latter). In the British Museum MS. the roundels are drawn as roses, but such a mistake is easily made if a stone is worn. Two roses are also drawn below the shield in the garter. The description by Pullan (p. 653) agrees with the drawings. Now Mr. Mill Stephenson points out to me that Sir Thomas Doewra, prior of the English from 1501 to 1527, bore : sable, a chevron engrailed arg. between three plates, each plate charged with a pale gu. ; on a chief gu. a cross arg. We may therefore conjecture with reasonable probability that Sir Thomas Docwra was castellan of St. Peter's in 1498. [High Down in Pirton parish, Hertfordshire, was built by a Thomas Docwra about 1599, and here, inserted in one of the gables is a stone panel with the shield of Sir Thomas Docwra and date 1504. The shield has a chief of the arms of the Hospitallers, and below the inscription SANE BORO, which occurs elsewhere in connexion with the Hospitallers. See V. C. II. Herts. iii, 40.] Thomas Provana also held that post in 1498, perhaps succeeding Docwra later in the year. The second identification, which is due to Col. Croft Lyons, is that of the castellan of 1468. The shield is given by Signor Gerola (LXXV, 151) as ‘Inquartato : nel primo e quarto di … alia gemella in banda di …, racchiudente tre anelletti di …, nel secondo e terzo di … all' elmo di …, accompagnato da tre paia di zampe di … Motto: Drede shame’. Now, as Col. Croft Lyons points out, Dawnay bore: arg. a bend cotised sa., charged with three annulets of the field, and the motto TIMET PUDOREM. A photograph kindly sent me by Signor Gerola shows that the name engraved above the shield begins with D. William Dawnay was Turcopolier of the English from 1449 to 1408 (J. H. Hound, Peerage and Pedigree, i, pp. 295 f.; Bosio, Index s. v. ‘Guglielmo d'Aunay’). He was the son of Sir John Dawnay of Estrick and Ellen, daughter of John Barden (Brydges' Collins, viii, p. 454). Possibly the arms that he quarters are those of his mother.

^{page 10 note 1} For Giambattista Orsini, Grandmaster 1467–70. ‘Bandato di rosso e di argento, col capo del secondo alla rosa del primo, sostennto da una fascia diminuita di oro.’

^{page 10 note 2} He informs me that the chief of the Order was accidentally omitted in his description of the shield.

^{page 12 note 1} Cited by A. Campaner y Fuertes, Cronicon Moyoricense (1881), pp. 175–6.

^{page 12 note 2} I am however bound to quote Dr. A. B. Rendle, who says that, though the leaves in box are opposite each other in pairs on the stem and have unbroken edges, the whole facies of the representation is against the identification. He thinks that the herald meant to convey an annual, at any rate an herbaceous plant, not a woody shrub. The design suggested to him (without any preconception of its appropriateness to the Order) St. John's Wort. I understand that Signor Gerola and Don Joseph Gudiol both accept the identification of the charge as box, buæus sempervirens.

^{page 12 note 3} I cannot think, judging by the drawing in the MS. (f. 8 = Gerola XIX, cp. LXXVII and LXXVIII), that another Budrum coat with three flowering plants has anything whatever to do, as Signor Gerola has suggested it has (p. 224), with that of Boxols, and I am glad to learn that he has now given up this view. The owner of this coat was in office in 1409, just before Boxols.

^{page 12 note 4} Signor Gerola notes that where two shields are grouped together, the greater dignity occupies the dexter position ; if there are three, the greatest dignity is in the middle, the next on its dexter flank, and so on. A similar rule would surely apply in the case of quartering or impaling.

^{page 13 note 1} Statutes of the Order, thirteenth century, quoted by Le Ronlx, J. Delaville, Métimges sur l'Ordre de St. Jean de Jérusalem (1910), no. iv, p. 4Google Scholar. Two such seals are illustrated in the same volume (no. xv, pp. 12, 13), dating from 1355 to 1421 respectively. I owe the reference to Mr. Edmund Fraser.

^{page 13 note 2} I may refer to the tables in my Development of Arabic Numerals (Oxford, 1915) for proof of this statement.

^{page 13 note 3} Gerola in Annuario Se. At., i, p. 235. Compare the four-armed form in an inscription of Emery d'Amboise of 1512 (ibid., p. 242), and both forms in an inscription of 1511 on the Aubergc de France (ibid., p. 280.

^{page 13 note 4} G. S. Davies, Renascence Tombs hi Rome (1910), at p. 16.

^{page 13 note 5} Venturi, Storia dell' Arte Italiana, iv, p. 205, fig. 190.

^{page 13 note 6} Ibid., p. 360, fig. 269.

^{page 14 note 1} Ibid., p. 270, fig. 194.

^{page 14 note 2} Since the above was written, Signor Gerola tells me that the motive is very common in Venetian territory, and that he has also noticed it in Crete, as for instance at Apessokari. My search has been necessarily confined to the more important monuments, such as have found their way into books of reference.

^{page 14 note 3} Venturi, op. cit. vi, p. 59 (attributed to Paolo Romano, about 1397). G. S. Davies, op. cit. pp. 44–6, thinks it Sienese work, and some years later than 1398.

^{page 15 note 1} Hasluck, F. W., Latin Monuments of Chios in Annual of British School at Athens, xvi (1909–10); p. 179Google Scholar ‘1427 die prima Madi hoc opus fieri fecit Autouius de Bozolo pro se et suis eredibus’. I have to thauk the Committee the School for the loan of the block of fig. 5.

^{page 17 note 1} In each case the carved part is measured. There is 1 in. to 1½ in uncarved round it.