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But the crusaders not finding one of their ownpersuasion, had to put up with the authority ofschismatics, and others, or those they calledheretics; and, at all events, not Latin RomanCatholics, but Orientalists, Jews, Pagans, Greeks,Nestorians, Armenians, Jacobites. There Avas noremedy. On the faith of these, blind reliance Avasto be placed by Europeans. Fact is, no Latin in-habitant had been tolerated in Jerusalem for thelast half century, and that as to pilgrims, or passingtraders, the Latin archbishop had seen the last ofthem off, before he left it himself, and fledto Cyprus, soon as the crusaders had reachedAntioch.

The neAvs of the fall of Jerusalem flying fast, adeputation from the Mahometans of the neigh-bouring toAvn of Assur, came the very next day toGodfrey, the Christian Malek-Nasser, or Com-mander-in-Chief, to capitulate on terms of livesand property, for Avhich they sent several hostages;and in return Avould be satisfied Avith one Christianchief; and the duke, Avho had but his young friendthen on Avhom he could thoroughly count, andknoAving that he had determined not to returnhome like the rest, but sacrifice himself to theirsacred cause for life, appointed him at once; Avhere-

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