208 THE HISTORY OF THE ORDER OF [book i.

the meantime, Gerard was dying at Jerusalem—a most placid end. It is not quite certain whetherhe died in the last of 1120, or in the first of 1121;but that only makes the difference of a few days. 1His ails, that had been always increasing, now lefthim a blessed respite of several weeks before heexpired. Of Baldwin’s success, he seems neverto have liad a doubt. And, if several of his knightshad fallen in the conflicts, and that some othersmight do so at present, yet he rejoiced they hadgone direct to Paradise. The review was con-

solatory in the highest degree; why should he notmake it? It was his duty to make it. Beforehim his faithful secretary held along roll containingthe list of the knights from almost every countryunder heaven, where there were Christians, anddeeds of gift, and regular establishments of theorder made during the life of the founder, in manyremarkable places of Europe and Asia. Paoli givesa list of forty, with regard to which the legal proofsstill remain; yet how few that remain, in com-parison of what are lost! 2 Probably of as greatantiquity are those of Gozlar (in the Hartz) and inPalestine, Laodicea, Tortosa, and several others,

1 Yaissette : Hist, de Languedoc, ii. 362.—Cod. Dipl. Geros.,i. 330.—P. A. Paoli: 192.

2 P. A. Paoli: whole three chapters xvii., xviii., xix.