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is true and valid. The duplicates are in substancethe same, but not always in the same language ordialect. Something of the sort is still used on theBarbary coast, as to passports of ships, not unlikeour indentures.

Only come in the Papal name, and you may witha safe conscience break any truce with the Paynim;indeed many thought that not even the Pope couldsanction such truces, and so some crusaders openlyagainst his will, sailed off. The war had indeedquite changed from what it had been in the firstcrusade, and even the third, and scarcely had anymore the least pretence to be called religious, butone of chivalrous delight, and by a most blasphe-mous union, u for the love of God and the ladies.”In this state of things 1 emanated that bull of 1236.How Girino ended is unknown; but it was to himthat those two bulls of Gregory IX. were directed;and it was he who, in manifest unison with thosebulls, upheld with such vigour the right ofFrederick’s son to be King of Jerusalem against thepretensions of Adelaide, widow of Hugh of Lusignan,King of Cyprus. Nor could be what Vertotwrites, that he fell in the battle against the Karis-mians; 2 for this took- place in 1243, 3 long afterGirino was dead, who, though he reigned in May

1 Set. Paoli : i. 342. 2 "Vertot: iii. 480.

3 Cod. Dipl. Geros.—Num. elxxviii.—Appendix, xciii.