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Monies for the third crusade were in each parishto be paid, in presence of a priest, a prelate, aTemplar , and an Hospitaller. The same of the taxcalled Saladin’s penny. Those knights then becamethe treasurers of Europe. 1

Some gentlemen of Bremen and Lubeck 2 addedto the German Hospitallers, and a small remainderof Frederick I.’s army, 3 after haying existed as aparty,it is hard to say precisely how long, became oneof the three military orders, ranking henceforth withTemplars and Hospitallers, by the formal institutionof a Papal bull, dated the 22nd February, 1191. 4Not in Jerusalem, like the other two, yet in themost honourable position of that moment, underthe walls of a city against which were now comingthe united forces of France and England, afterGermany’s had been broken on the way. Gloriouswas the post where the Teutonics openly raisedtheir nascent flag. And if their first steps werenaturally weak, still they soon learnt from theirelders to act as a worthy member of that celebratedtrine.

All was joy and illuminations in the Christiancamp. But an omen took place the very next

1 Michaud: Hist., ii. 306. 2 Id.: Id., 389.

3 "Werner, Martene.—Bib. Crois., i. 332.

4 Michaud: Hist., ii. 494.—Appendix, Hum. xlvi.