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and consigned within a few months, since Godfrey’swhole reign was limited to a year. But that thelaws of Godfrey were in the general estimation ofthe Norman is proved by that other Baldwin, whobecoming Emperor of Constantinople in 1204,“ adopted the Assizes de Jerusalem as best adaptedto a French colony in the East.” 1 In the course ofthese first twelve years of the order, how muchwas effected! A chronicler, who visited Jerusalemwithin a few years after the first crusade, found ithad its church newly built, and a splendid mansionfor above two thousand men. 2 Godfrey himselfhad founded an hospital in Jerusalem for thepoor; 3 so that in that respect there would havebeen no need of the order’s ( and that must hespecified ), for by a casualty Godfrey’s was dedi-cated to St. John, which led to mistakes; but itstood in quite another part of the city, and hadnothing to do with the order’s, which was exclu-sively for crusaders, who then went by the nameof poor or Christ's poor , without any reference towealth. In comparison of Him are we not all poor?This large mansion, or Xenodochia , lay exactlyopposite the Holy Sepulchre, alongside of its ownchurch; both of which buildings, church and man-