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same spot, but that is not proved. The chroniclerhad seen it new many years before he wrote. Hewrote in 1150 what he had seen forty years earlier,then in 1110. That is all that is certain. Foraught we know, he erected his from the founda-tions. 1 Also in 1100, in the north of Europe; andthe' deed is preserved in the Brandenbourgh Col-lection; and by Ludwig in his work on MS. andGiorgisch. 2 The lake was called Swerin, and thecountry, before the town was built, and erected intoa county for the sovereigns general Gunzel; as wasthe case in 1163, 3 under Henry the Lion. Godfreyhad known Gunzel on his march to Constantinople.Respecting the Messina deed, already spoken of,p. 119, the son’s confirming his father’s donation isgiven; but that father died in 1106, so that thedonation at latest must have been in some day ofthat year ; 4 and that large and early establishmentin Messina was necessary, from its being the portto sail for Palestine. 5 Several receiverships anda grand priory were there even from the first; theless surprising from the sovereign’s being a Norman,

1 P. A. Paoli : 372.

2 Id. . 376.-—Appendix, Sum. i.

3 Com. Geography: i. 22, fol. London, 1709.

■ 4 P. A. Paoli: 379.

5 Cod. Dipl. Geros., i. 237. Hum. exii.