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nections and habits, which was hard; so it mightnot have wounded him cruelly to be spared thesacrifice. Whatever were his inward feelings, assoon as informed that his cousin had already beenchosen and put into possession, and would probablymake some resistance before leaving the throne, heat once exclaimed, “ God forbid my ambition shouldcause dissensions in our family,” and forthwithhurried back to the West. 1

Baldwin de Bourg, who was fortuitously atJerusalem, as has been related, was chosen tosucceed—chiefly from the time it would cost towait for the arrival of Eustace an argument pushedstrenuously by Joscelin,Lord of Tel-bacher, who wasrelated to the new king; who if they had formerlyquarrels, all these were now forgotten, and Baldwinde Bourg giving Edessa to Joscelin, assumed theJerusalem crown himself, under the title ofBaldwin II. 2 So he followed Godfrey’s example, byadministering justice according to the assizes. It wasEaster of 1118, when he was solemnly proclaimedby the barons in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre,and banquet at Solomon’s Palace. Penury ofmoney, that assailed him at the very outset of hisreign, was to be his permanent scourge, as well as

1 ~W. of Tyre. Bib. Crois., i. 142.

3 Michaud: Hist., ii. 59.—Arab. Chron. : 38.

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