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independent (or rather dominant), and sent a de-putation to the Pope, who refused to alter whathad been regulated by his predecessors. And thedisappointment disposed an ambitious hierarchy todischarge their acrimony (hut very unjustly), noton the Papacy, of which they were afraid, hut onthose it protected—the Hospitallers, who had no-thing to do with the matter. Still, in reference tothis accusation, the Legate Berengario was sent in1115 to Jerusalem, and deposed its Patriarch. 1Beside the rule that disappeared at Acre, or in somepreceding mischance, the few we have, show that atleast four other apostolical letters to Gerard havebeen lost. 2 No wonder at all ; rather the wonderis that these few incontestible documents havecome down to us; and if that of Lucius is in theVatican, it is, that to have sent it then to Palestinewould have been highly imprudent, seeing what aconfusion that country was that time in; Jerusalemto fall in less than a year, and Acre already totter-ing at Saladin’s approach, who was then climbingtowards his ascendant. 8 But when these and allthe ancient records of even Gerard’s successor werethought to be lost utterly, and of his successors too,then a Pope of a later epoch (Boniface VIII.) was

1 P. A. Paoli: 310. —Cod. Dipl. Gcros., i. 549.

2 Id. : 208. 3 p. A . p aol i: 212.