Dec. 2. 1854.] 



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doubt that your highness' letters, congratulating 

 us on our accession to these kingdoms, were a 

 source of gratification. 



We shall always endeavour to nourish that 

 friendship which existed between your highness 

 and our royal predecessors, by all those benevo- 

 lent offices which may serve to promote and in- 

 crease it, and which may tend to demonstrate how 

 great is the affection we entertain ^towards your 

 highness and your Order. 



It remains for us heartily to recommend your 

 higime^^s to the protection of the Most High and 

 Most Good God. 



Given from our palace of St. James, the 25th 

 day of the month of June, in the year of our Lord 

 1715, and of our reign the first. 



Your Highness' good Cousin and Friend, 



George R. 



J. Stanhope. 



No. XXI. 



George by the grace of God, of Great Britain, 

 Trance, and Ireland, King, Defender of the 

 Faith. 



To the most eminent Prince the Lord Anthony 

 Manoel, Grand Master of the Order of Malta, 

 our well-beloved cousin and friend — Greeting : 



Most eminent Prince, our well-beloved cousin 

 and friend. 



Tlie grief which we experienced at the decease 

 of your most eminent predecessor was greatly 

 alleviated by the receipt of your letter dated Malta 

 the 23rd of last June, by which we were informed 

 of your elevation to the Grand Mastership of that 

 most celebrated order of knighthood. We cer- 

 tainly entertain such feelings of affection for 

 persons coming from so many noble families of 

 Europe, the flower and choice of different coun- 

 tries, that it is a source of great rejoicing to us 

 that the serious prejudice occasioned by the recent 

 death is now repaired by the elevation of your 

 eminence, whom so many noble persons have re- 

 puted to be the most worthy among them. 



We therefore prognosticate that your renowned 

 military Order will continue from day to day to 

 flourish more and more, and that the memory of 

 the deeds formerly performed by it will continue 

 to excite it in furtherance of the ancient glory of 

 its name. 



It remains for us to recommend your eminence, 

 and all your Order, to the protection of the Most 

 High and Most Great God. 



Given from our palace at Kensington on the 

 24th day of the month of August, 1 722, and of our 

 reign the ninth. 



Geoege R. 



Carteret. 



No. XXII. 



To my Cousin the Grand Master of Malta. 

 My Cousin, 



Having recently requested the Pope to have 

 the kindness, on the opportunity presenting Itself, 

 not to dispose of the Grand Priories of my king- 

 dom, nor to grant coadjutors to the present Grand 

 Prior, without previously hearing what I might 

 have to represent to him on that head, his holiness 

 answered he had told your ambassador that he 

 would allow the Order to act for Itself in all 

 affairs which regarded it ; so that all such matters 

 depending on the Order, it is with full confidence 

 that I address myself to you, requesting that I 

 may be treated with the same consideration as is 

 shown towards other princes on similar occasions. 

 No way doubting, after all the marks of your 

 attention and friendship which I have received, 

 but that you will confer on me this farther favour, 

 which will engage me so much the more to en- 

 tertain the most perfect esteem and friendship for 

 your Order, and your person In particular. 



On which I pray God to have you my cousin in 

 His holy and worthy keeping. 



Rome, 14th September, 1725. 



Your affectionate Cousin, 



James R. 



To the Grand Master of Malta. 



Anthony Manoel de Vlllena, who succeeded 

 Zondodari in 1722, was the Grand Master of 

 Malta when the above letter from James (the 

 Pretender) was sent. With every wish on the 

 part of the Order, still the request contained in it 

 could not be complied with. 



William Winthbop. 



La Valetta, Malta. 



OCCASIONAL FORMS OP PRATER. 



I possess the following Forms of Prayer, in 

 addition to those in my former list (Vol. vlli., 

 p. 535.), which was only brought down to the 

 accession of the House of Hanover. The present 

 list contains some few which were omitted in my 

 previous communication. 



Form of Prayer. Fast. During the Plague. 1603. 



Form, &c. iSTov. 5. 1634. 



Form, &c. Fast. During the Plague. 1665. 



Form, &c. Fast. 1672. 



Form, &c. Thanksgiving. 1691. 



Form, &c. Thanksgiving. For Suppression of the Re- 

 bellion. 1716. 



Form, &c. Fast. 1720. 



Form, &c. Fast. 1739. 



Forms of Prayer with Thanksgiving to be used on the 

 5th day of November, the 30th day of January, and 

 the 29th day of May. 1728. 



These were published in a separate form, on the acces- 

 sion of George II. ; and it is remarkable that the title only 



