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up my head among our kings. I renounce everyother advantage.” For he had begun by askingnot only for Jerusalem, but all the towns ancientlypossessed by the Franks, and favourable terms forcommerce. “It is not,” said he to Fakr-eddin,“ that my motive in coming here was to deliverthe Holy City ! No such thing ; but to preservethe esteem of the Franks. If I insist with suchfervour on what I ask, it is simply that I am afraidof losing all credit in the West.”

The sultan also felt great pain at sacrificingJerusalem; 1 but he had a powerful foe, and besidesargued he, we give the Franks but dismantledchurches and ruined houses. And, indeed, Jeru-salem, at that time, was without walls or fortifi-cations, and the sultan gave only one road and itsvillages, that from Jerusalem to Acre, so that theMahometans remained masters of the country. Inthe Holy City, too, they retained the mosque ofOmar, and the free exercise of their religion. And,likewise, there was a clause that the Christiansshould not re-build its ramparts, but that it shouldremain an open town. So, on this basis, was sworna peace that was to last ten years and five monthsand days, from the twenty-fourth of February,1229. 2 Most Christians, says the chronicle, ap-

1 Arab- Chron., 430. 2 Id., 430.