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an arrow, and but a moment to tear away the barband spit on it and say, “ There’s a shot that killsall Mahometans.” That he was slain in the battlewould be then a Christian fable; still some affirmhis death proceeded from Joscelin’s hand, though thearrow came from the ramparts. 1 Baldwin re-mained a long time prisoner; five years, say some.The Saracens took this opportunity of invadingPalestine. That Gardiner, who afterwards becamegrand master, and then was Count of Sidon, 2 andconstable, certainly of the order, and probably ofJerusalem itself (second charge in that kingdom),and by rights regent during the king’s captivity,led the Christian army, and by rights, too, theHospitallers, their grand master being beforeAleppo. Gardiner was brother or nephew to thatother Gardiner who was in England as prior, andpriest, and, indeed, bishop. From the name, theyare often confounded, but were two separatepersons. 3 Far from old, 4 he was very young, re-markably young for that charge, scarcely any^ more than twenty-two, at that time, Jan.,1125, since he lived till 1191. 5 Yet whatwas the Christian army? 6 In numbers very in-

1 Michaud: Hist., ii. 70.—Vertot: i. 89.

2 Cod. Dipl. Geros., 484. 8 P. A. Paoli : as already.

4 Vertot: i. 85. 5 Cod. Dipl. Geros., i. 339.

6 Michaud: Hist., ii. 70.