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APPENDIX.

Tripoli, as early as 1140.— Seb. Paoli: Notizie Geo. i. 428.Similiter concessi & laudavi Cratiim — God. Diplom. Geros.Num. xxiii., i. 24. But Cracli, Kerak or Petra did not thenbelong to the Hospitallers, and was near the Dead Sea, andnot at all on Wratislaw’s road.— Seb. Paoli: Notizie Geo-grafiche, i. 447. They were quite different places, thoughsometimes written alike, perhaps by mistake. This latterwas the fortress of which Soldans of Egypt were so scru-pulously fond, and refused to give hack, as communicatingwith Mecca; and only, in 1190, was given to the Orderby the Grand Master Gardiner, who had inherited it.*

Num. XLII.

Ex Cod. Diplomatico Geros., Num. Ixxix.

Carta di Guidone ottavo Be di Gerusalemme Latino, incui dona all’ ospedale di Gerusalemme una strada1191 ivi descritta. In Nomine Dei nostri Jesu Christi.Amen. Notum sit omnibus tarn futuris quampresentibus, quod ego Guido per Dei gratiam in SanctaCivitate Jerusalem Latinorum Bex octavus districtionem& parvitatem platee domorum Hospitalis Acconensis dinos-cens . . . pro redemptione anime mee & pro salute

* Bosio : i. 6.—Petra was the real name, Cracli hut a vulgarismeven then; for its bishop was entitled of Petra, Episcopus Petra-censis; and that it had a bishop in 1177 implies some Christian popu-lation. Cod. Dipl. Geros. Num. lxii., i. 63.—Seb. Paoli: Osservazioni,i. 555 and 558. It is the confusion that is modern. Kerak and Petrawere precisely one and the same spot- Petra, the capital, may havegiven its name to the whole district, including Kerak as one of itsoutposts.