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THIS Order was instituted by Pope A∣lexander the Sixth Anno 1498. But as Micheli saith, by Pope Paul the Third, for the Security of the Confines of the Adriatick Sea against Pirats, who for their Ensign wore a Cross of Gold, entow'red with a Circle of the same in form of a Crown.