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ST. JOHN OF JERUSALEM.

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and the other sacred places. 1 And in the very endof that same year, is a bull of Innocent III., re-questing of the Hospitallers to defend Cyprus,whose king they had themselves elected to Jeru-salem, and to defend him and his island as cordiallyas Palestine itself. 2

Beautiful—which law papers rarely are—is the

deed by which a lady of Holy Land certifies she has

become a sister of the order, with her hus-, . , , . , 1201band s consent, without calumny, without

revocation, without contradiction. 3

Nor could De Duisson have died earlier than thelast days of 1201 (Yertot mistakes much), as docu-mentary proof shows, and in 1202, he was suc-ceeded by Sir Alphonso, of the royal family of ^Portugal (probably son of Alphonso I.),whobeing very austere at the expenditure, called achapter in cloaks 4 for some minute and ill-timedreforms, where, not considering it compatible withhis own dignity, he had a proposal made by another,to whom a younger knight having replied sharply,that it would render harder what was already hard,that no officer could ever do with one horse—at least

1 Reiner : Chron —Bib. Crois., i. 334.

2 Cod. Dipl. Geros., Bolla iii., i. 270.

3 Id., Rum. Ixxxvi., i. 91.—Appendix, liv.

4 Bosio :—Appendix, Rum. xxxvi.—Seb. Paoli: Seine,, i. 340.