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by desertion, sickness, famine, and with the shameof having broken a solemn treaty, and undertakenan unjust and ill-planned enterprise.' On themiserable grand-master most of the public blamefell; so that this, added to his self-reproaches andthose of his brethren, forced him at length to abdi-cate against the advice of the king, patriarch, anda large majority of his own knights; and hurryingto Normandy, he did homage to Henry II. at Rouen,and embarked at Dieppe for England, and was lost,for the ship foundering at sea, he was not amongthe eight saved. 1 2 In his place, in 1170, 3 was sub-stituted, as locum-tenens , Sir Castus for a fewmonths, and then Sir Roger de Moulin for a fewmonths, during Avhich the knights in full chapterdrew up a memorial to the Pope, asking him todecide whether they should take back D’Assaly (ofwhose death, so far off, they did not know), or electa new one; 4 but that during the interregnum, bothCastus and Moulin, though only locum-tenens ,should be called grand master in the deeds, is onlyfollowing the Syrian custom; as, during young

1 Michaud : Hist., ii. 240.

2 Vcrtot: ii. 207.—Hovedcu.—Bosio: par. 1, lib. iii., anno 1169.

3 Cod. Dipl. Geros., vol. i., 336.—Hum. Ii.

4 Id. Hum. clxxxvi.