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ST. JOHN OF JERUSALEM.

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between Hospitallers and Templars is a naturalconsequence of human defects in which bothparties may have erred from the strict ruleof right—weaknesses scarce meriting notice,and no doubt frightfully exaggerated ; but, what-ever they were, Alexander III. made the twoorders agree . 1 There had been disturbances atAntioch which were appeased by umpires, thePatriarch of Jerusalem and the two Grand ^Masters of the Hospital and Temple . 2 Aswell as a mutiny at Constantinople happened, inwhich nearly all the Hospitallers in that city weremurdered, and the great establishment there sacked,including hospital and church . 3

Saladin accused his rival Moslems of leaguingwith the Franks and the Assassins as if they wereall one; and to his eyes they were so, or he wishedit so to be thought, and that he was a staunchprejudiced Mahometan . 4 Therefore when advanc-ing against the Christians at Beyrout, he wheeledround suddenly and marched beyond the Euphratesto attack the Moslem Prince of Moussul; becausehe had made a treaty of truce with the Franks

1 Rymer: i. 149.—Vertot: ii. 235.

2 Yertot: ii. 238. 3 Id. : Id., 240.

4 Arab. Cliron., 184.