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Sir Edward Osborne, ..... Frontispiece 



Sir Edward Osborne was born about 1530, and was 

 apprenticed to Sir William Hewett, clothworker in 

 London. According to tradition Osborne, while an 

 apprentice, leapt into the Thames and saved the life 

 of Hewett's infant daughter, who had fallen from 

 her nurse's arms into the river at London Bridge. 

 He afterwards married her in 1562, and on Sir 

 William Hewett's death succeeded to his business 

 and estates. Sir Edward Osborne became Lord 

 Mayor in 1583, was knighted in 1584, and elected 

 Member of Parliament for the City of London in 

 1586. He traded to the Mediterranean and the 

 Levant, and in 1581 (with three other merchants) 

 was granted letters patent by Queen Elizabeth to 

 trade * into the dominions of the great Turke.' 

 On the incorporation of the Levant or Turkey 

 Company, Sir Edward Osborne was appointed its 

 first governor. He died in 1591. The portrait 

 here reproduced is from the original at Hornby 

 Castle, by permission of the Duke of Leeds. 



Philip de Villiers de L'Isle Adam, . . . .16 



Philip de Villiers de L'Isle Adam, Hospitaller and Grand 



Prior of France, was elected Grand Master or 



Rhodes on 22nd January, 1521, when absent in 



France. He had, in 15 10, come prominently 



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