[230] Adam von Dietrichstein was born in 1527. He accompanied Maximilian on his journey to Spain, when he went to marry his cousin, the Infanta Maria. In 1561 he was sent by Maximilian to the Pope as ambassador. Maximilian appointed him his High Chamberlain in 1563, and sent him to conduct his sons to Spain as head of their household. Busbecq therefore served under him on this mission (see page 61). About the same time Ferdinand appointed him his ambassador to Spain, and after Ferdinand’s death he remained there as Maximilian’s representative. In this post he had the delicate task of keeping the bigoted Philip and the tolerant Maximilian on friendly terms. In 1573 he escorted the Archdukes home, and was appointed Privy Councillor and Governor of Rodolph’s household. He died in 1590, and was buried at Prague, at the feet of his master Maximilian. He married in 1555 Margaret, daughter of Don Antonio de Cardona. [231] In Wervicq Church, about a mile from Busbecq’s home, stands a life-size figure of a galley-slave, with this inscription: ‘Vrais Chrétiens, soyez touchés de cœur à faire charité aux esclaves Chrétiens.’ The utter, hopeless misery there depicted illustrates the force of this appeal. [232] July 8, 1561. [233] See page 157. [234] One of the Princes’ Islands in the Sea of Marmora, where the British Fleet was stationed during the spring of 1878. [235] We have here a good description of a serious attack of the plague. Compare pages 163-4. [236] Busbecq went there in the beginning of August 1561. He was accompanied by a cavasse, and twenty Janissaries as a guard. Charrière, _Négotiations de la France dans le Levant_, ii. 668-9. [237] These references are to Cicero, _De Naturâ Deorum_, ii. cap. 48, and _De Finibus_, iii. cap. 19; Pliny, _Natural History_, ix. cap. 66, and _Athenæus_, iii. p. 93. For descriptions and figures of the pinna and pinnophylax or pea-crab, see Wood’s _Natural History_, pages 422 and 588. They are frequently found in the shells of bivalves. The real reason for this habit is not certainly known. For an account of Belon, see note, page 140. [238] This passage illustrates the statement in the _Life_, pages 50, 51. [239] In ancient times, and now in the English Church, the title of Metropolitan (Archbishop) was confined to the chief bishop of a province; but in the Greek Church at the present day the title is given to many ordinary bishops. [240] See pp. 113, 114.