I. THE BURDEN OF TYRE 213

8. Such, with due approval of the two Apostles of the Gentiles, being the claims of these Gentile mariners from the King of the Holy City, the same were accepted in these terms:-“In the name of the Holy and undivided Trinity of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost, these are the treaties which Baldwin, second King of the Latins in Jerusalem, made with St. Mark and Dominicus Michaël”;-and ratified by the signatures of-

GUARIMOND, Patriarch of Jerusalem;

EBREMAR, Archbishop of Cæsarea;

BERNARD, Archbishop of Nazareth;

ASQUIRIN, Bishop of Bethlehem;

GOLDUMUS, Abbot of St. Mary’s, in the Vale of Jehoshaphat;

ACCHARD, Prior of the Temple of the Lord;

GERARD, Prior of the Holy Sepulchre;

ARNARD, Prior of Mount Syon; and

HUGO DE PAGANO, Master of the Soldiers of the Temple. With others many, whose names are in the chronicle of Andrea Dandolo.¹

And thereupon the French crusaders by land, and the Venetians by sea, drew line of siege round Tyre.

9. You will not expect me here, at St. George’s steps, to give account of the various mischief done on each other with the dart, the stone, and the fire, by the Christian and Saracen, day by day. Both were at last wearied, when a report came of help to the Tyrians by an army from Damascus and a fleet from Egypt. Upon which news, discord arose in the invading camp; and rumour went abroad that the Venetians would desert their allies, and save themselves in their fleet. These reports coming to the ears of the Doge, he took (according to tradition) the sails

¹ [Andreæ Danduli Chronicon Venetum, printed in Muratori’s Rerum Italicarum Scriptores, vol. xii. (Milan, 1728).]

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