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according to the times, but only a little. If thatbe conceded now, it will become as evident to thereader, as it is to the writer, upon glancing overthe documents that shall be given in the appendix.Tyre is a good authority for the third crusade,where he was present, but not for the first. Inthis, France’s excuse for him is, that he had toohigh a mind to submit to the trammels of truth , 1and that experience must confess that on somesubjects he is less intelligible and trustworthy thanother chroniclers . 2 Why, with your eyes open,continue your mistake?

But before perusing the documents, recollectthat words vary as to their signification in differentcenturies, and that in that of the crusades pilgrimwas not a transitory thing, but a real and highlyhonourable title, that remained during life, likethat of Haggi among Mahometans even now ; thatthe cross of the crusaders was worn suspendedfrom the neck in the third crusade, but that atthe beginning of the first crusade was as theorder wears it ; 3 that the poor, Christ’s poor, arenot what they at present signify, but meant cru-saders, brethren in arms, or wives and children of

1 La verite luiparait un fardeau penible. Michaud : Hist.,vi. 359.

2 Michaud : Hist., ii. 7 , Note.

3 P. A. Paoli : 99.