ABSTRACT
This chapter begins with a catastrophe for the English knights, but it should be remembered that thirty years later they were legitimized when Queen Victoria made St John an order of the British Crown. Interest in the grand magistry had been rearoused in England by news of its plans to found a hospital in Jerusalem, and the English Langue announced publicly that it would support it, although Broun was much more enthusiastic about the idea of reoccupying Rhodes. Enthusiasts for the restoration of the Catholic Order in England, they saw no reason why they should have anything to do with Protestants. In fact it had been in touch with two Englishmen, George Bowyer and Edmund Waterton, with a view to the restoration of a Catholic grand priory of England. Meanwhile in England the news of Gozze’s visit and Bowyer and Waterton’s objections had leaked from the Catholic community to the English Langue.
