310 THE HISTORY OF THE ORDER OF [book I.

East is a kind of music that only royal personshave a right to, five times a-day at their door—a privilege which he who renounces, for even ashort space, is considered as abdicating so long allhis other highest privileges, and confessing he liesunder a stain, which must be washed out. 1

In one of the late battles, the son of the Lord ofRamlah—a private nobleman, was obliged to pay asransom for himself alone one hundred thousand goldpieces and the liberty of one thousand Mussulmen;and Saladin's favourite physician, a Doctor Jssa,being made prisoner on the other side, the soldanpaid sixty thousand pieces of gold to ransom him.How money had increased since the first crusade,when the ransom of a sovereign would hardly havebeen rated at such sums. 2

In 1179 fell in battle Humphry de Thoron,remarkable for his wisdom and valour. 3 He wasuncle or father of the youth of that name who es-poused the child Isabella, younger sister of Bald-win IV., a marriage that was afterwards to bebroken. 4

That there had been some small dissensions

1 Arab. Chron., 180. 2 Id. 182, Note 2.

3 Id., 181. 4 Michaud: Hist., ii. 366.