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desire unbounded wealth, or lands or palaces.Welcome to all who wish for gold or silver, orjewels, or fields, or fine houses, or captives hardworking or beautiful, male or female. All ofyou join us and fall in quickly.’’ 1 The earlierdays of June, he passed in the river. 2 3

As soon as Du Moulin was found by someknights of his order, they bore his corpse intoAcre; and, at a chapter holden in its presence, SirN. Gardiner was chosen. He was at that very timegrand preceptor, and had been so certainly fromprevious to 1180, 3 and even constable in 1125, andprobably turcopolier, 4 as well as brother to thePrior of England.

But under the leper, and after his and theminor’s death, and during various regencies, theplot had been going on for the last two years atJerusalem, and divisions, which Saladin kept tacitlyfomenting as much as he could. And as soon asthe Grand Master of the Hospitallers had beensent on that expedition to beyond Nazareth, whenceit was agreed the Grand Master of the Temple

1 Coggleshale : 3.—Bib. Crois., i. 351.

2 Michaud : Hist., ii. 268.

3 Cod. Dipl. Geros., i. Hum. xlviii.—P. A. Paoli: 300.

4 P. A. Paoli: 302, 427.