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the dying Raymond; but it prepared much enmityto the Hospitallers.

Perhaps then, for the first time,the clergy began toU look upon them with an evil eye. To lose thetithes of such great landlords over the wholeworld was a severe blow. But what wounded theirpride still more was, that while the kings and princesof Jerusalem and Antioch, and other distinguishedgrandees, were subject to priests, patriarchs, and bi-shops, these were openly deprived of all a uthority overthe Hospitallers. Nor were the Templars withoutsharing in the same odium. But that of church-men is proverbially tenacious, and waits to ripenwell before it shows itself. A malicious sneer attheir riches, and with a malevolence quite charac-teristic of irritated ecclesiastics, they stuck up somearrows on their steeple, as if they had been shot at,or were in fear of their lives from the Hospitallersopposite; and observed with malignity that theHospitallers had erected that magnificent edifice toattract admirers more than the Holy Sepulchredirectly facing it. These little symptoms of ill-willsufficed at the beginning;' but soon after gave riseto the fable of William of Tyre, who had a brother abishop, and became a bishop himself; fable that has

1 Yertot: i. 152.—Bosio : par. 1, lib. ii.