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of the commanders deputed to inquire into the 

 complaint preferred by the noble, Paolo Fiteni, 

 against the Lord Lieutenant of the Turcopolier, 

 Brother Oswald de Massingberd, for having 

 forcibly entered his house and violently taken 

 therefrom a certain female slave, with her daugh- 

 ter, whom he had recently purchased from the 

 Order, and for having struck him with his fist ; 

 and also having heard the said De Massingberd 

 in contradiction, who pretended that the above- 

 mentioned Paul could in no way have purchased 

 the female slave, as she had previously been 

 branded with certain marks in his name, as is cus- 

 tomary and usual on similar occasions, and that 

 therefore the preference in the purchase of the 

 said slave appertained to him, De Massingberd, 

 do now, after mature deliberation, condemn the 

 said De Massingberd to restore the above-men- 

 tioned female slave with her daughter, to Fiteni, 

 and order that they shall be restored accordingly. 

 In continuation, as regards the force and violence 

 used, they furthermore decree that he shall remain 

 and be kept for two months within his own resi- 

 dence, and that for this period he shall not be per- 

 mitted to leave it. 



It was very fortunate for the complainant in 

 this case that he was a nobleman : had it been 

 otherwise, it is very possible he would not have 

 obtained such ample satisfaction for the temporary 

 loss of his slaves, and indignity of receiving a 

 blow. Vide Burke. 



Massingbe7-d, Sir Thomas, father of the above- 

 named, became, on the decease of his wife, a 

 Knight of St. John, during the reign of Henry VIII. 

 He died 25th May, a.d. 1552. 



Newdigate Silvester, Newdigate Dunstan, se- 

 cond and third sons of John Newdigate, of Hare- 

 field, in the county of Middlesex, by Amphilicia 

 his wife, daughter of John Neville, of Sutton, in 

 Lincolnshire. Their fourth brother, Sebastian, 

 from being a courtier, became on the death of his 

 wife, A.D. 1524, a Carthusian monk, and suffered 

 death on the scaffold, 18th June, 1527, for deny- 

 ing and opposing the supremacy of Henry VIII. 

 Vide CoU. MSS., Otho, c. ix. 



Newport, Thomas, of a distinguished Shrop- 

 shire family, was Turcopolier, A.i). 1500. Being 

 anxious to reach Rhodes at the time of the siege, 

 with considerable reinforcements under his com- 

 mand, he insisted on embarking during a violent 

 tempest, against all advice, and was lost at sea on 

 the coast of Kent with all his equipage. Vide 

 Boisgelin, Vertot, vol. viii. p. 7. fol. 



Roberts, Nicholas. There is a letter extant 

 froin this knight addressed to the Earl of Sussex, 

 giving an account of the siege of Rhodes. 



Rogers, Anthmiy, was third son of Sir John 

 Kogers of Brianstone, in the county of Dorset, by 

 his wife Elizabeth, daughter of Sir William 

 Courtenay, of Powderham, in the co. of Devon. 



His elder brother. Sir John Rogers, married Ca- 

 therine, niece of Sir William Weston, the Grand 

 Prior. Vide Cott. MSS., Otho, c. ix. ; also jSitr?- 

 MSS., 1451. 2186. 



Sandilands, James, second son of Sir James 

 Sandilands, of Calder, and Mariota, daughter of 

 Archibald Forrester, of Corstorphine, was recom- 

 mended to the Grand Master by Sir Walter 

 Lyndsay as a. person well qualified to succeed him 

 in the dignity of PraBceptor of Torphicen, and on 

 the death of Sir Walter he succeeded in the title 

 accordingly. He was often employed in nego- 

 tiations of importance with England, and con- 

 formed to the Protestant religion in 1553. Having 

 been sent to France in 1560 by the Congregation 

 Parliament, to lay their proceedings before 

 Francis and Mary, the Cardinal of Lorrain loaded 

 him with reproaches, accusing him of violating his 

 obligations as a knight of a holy order ; and not- 

 withstanding all his efforts to soothe the prelate, 

 and the most assiduous endeavours to recommend 

 himself to the queen, he was dismissed without an 

 answer. He resigned the property of the Knights 

 of St. John of Jerusalem into the hands of the 

 Queen of England, who on the 24th January, 

 1563-4, was pleased, in consideration of his merits 

 and services, to create him Lord of St. John, 

 giving him the lands and baronies of Torphicen, and 

 Listoun, Balintrodo, Thankertoun, Denny, Mary- 

 culter, Stanhouse, Galtna, &c. (all the plunder of 

 the Order), on payment of 10,000 crowns, and an 

 annual duty of five* hundred marks, erecting the 

 same into the temporal lordship of Torphicen. 

 James Sandilands married Janet, daughter of 

 Murray of Polonaise, but had no issue, and dying 

 29th November, 1596, his title of Lord Torphicen, 

 and plundered possessions, devolved on his grand 

 nephew, James Sandilands, of Calder, and still 

 continue in his name and blood. Vide Crawford's 

 Peerage, Keith's Catalogue, Cook's Reformation, 

 ii. 240,, Mag. Sigil, l. xxxii. No. 182. 



Sandilands, John James. A diligent search has 

 been made to discover the descent of this knight, 

 and also whether he was related to the one above- 

 named, but thus far it has been without success. 

 On the 16th of July, 1564, a commission was ap- 

 pointed to examine Sandilands, and even if ne- 

 cessary to put him to the torture, for the purpose 

 of discovering if he had been guilty of sacrilege in 

 stealing a chalice and crucifix from the altar of 

 the church of St. Anthony. This crime having 

 been proved against him, he was, on the 31st of 

 July, 1564, deprived of his habit, and passed over 

 to the criminal court of the island for trial. Vide 

 Manuscript Records of the Order. 



Shelley, James, was the third son of Sir William 

 and Alice Belknap. On the 29th day of May, 

 1573, the Right Reverend Lord the Grand Master, 

 and the Venerable Council, taking into considera- 

 tion the need and poverty of the Lord and Bro^ 



