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The Hospitallers were an international body organised into

eight national "Tongues" which were, in order of

precedence, Provence, Auvergne, France, Italy, Aragon,

England, Germany and Castile-Portugal. The Priory in

Clerkenwell was the administrative centre of the Order's

properties within the English "Tongue". Although included in

the "Tongue" of England, the Commandery at Torphichen

controlled Scottish properties and the Priory at Kilmainham

controlled those in Ireland. In 1540, at the Dissolution of

the Monasteries, Henry VIII seized all the Order's

properties in England. Briefly restored to its surviving

possessions by Queen Mary, the estates were again

confiscated by her successor, Elizabeth I. A Prior of England continued to be appointed in Malta, despite the fact that there was no longer an English Priory.