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sister, with Acre and great wealth for her dower,to Saladin’s brother, who should be King of Jeru-salem, and she Queen, and the city free to bothChristians and Moslems; a proof that Richard con-sidered Acre as his own, to be given where he liked.But she refused her consent, as Saladin foresaw;and therefore perhaps he gave his. Monks andpriests persuaded her that it would be a denial ofher faith . 1 Another proposal of Richard’s was todivide Jerusalem into two equal parts . 2 But Sala-din resolved to listen to none. “What guarantee?I dead; and all over again! ” When Saladinmade peace, it was that he was forced to it . 3Richard had viewed Jerusalem’s walls well, anddeclared them impregnable so long as Saladinlived, or any one that knew how to defend them,and that Moslems remained united. So he wentback to his camp near Ramlah. There the tidingshe first received was, that Conrad, Marquis of Mont-ferrat, and whom he had just acknowledged Kingof Jerusalem, had been assassinated at Tyre; andalthough it was confessedly an act of the Old Manof the Mountain, in consequence of the murderperpetrated by that Templar who had been sen-tenced to death, and was in prison, in Almeric’s

1 Arab. Chron., 335. 2 Id., 336.

3 Id., 336.

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