HARDINE OF ENGLAND ad. 



II02. 



&c. Erat autem tertia feria Julii mensis, quando has 

 Christianorum copiae, Deo protegente, hue navigio 

 angustiatis & obsessis ad opem collatae sunt. Sarrace- 

 norum autem turmae, videntes quia Christianorum virtus 

 audacter facie ad faciem vicino sibi hospitio proxime 

 jungebatur, media nocte orbi incumbente, amotis tentoriis 

 amplius milliari subtractae consederunt, dum luce exorta 

 consihum inirent, utrum Ascalonem redirent, aut cives 

 Japhet crebris assultibus vexarent. 



The same in English. [ii. i. 13.] 



WHile the Sarazens continued their siege against 

 Joppa, two hundred saile of Christian ships 

 arrived at Joppa, that they might performe their 

 devotions at Hierusalem. The chiefe men and leaders 

 of these Christians are reported to have bene : Bernard 

 Witrazh of the land of Galatia, Hardine of England, 

 Otho of Roges, Haderwerck one of the chiefe noble men 

 of Westphalia, &c. This Christian power through Gods 

 speciall provision, arrived here for the succour and reliefe 

 of the distressed & besieged Christians in Joppa, the 

 third day of July, 1102. and in the second yeere of 

 Baldwine king of Jerusalem. Whereupon the multitude 

 of the Sarazens, seeing that the Christian power joyned 

 themselves boldly, close by them even face to face in a 

 lodging hard by them, the very next night at midnight, 

 remooved their tents, and pitched them more then a mile 

 off, that they might the next morning bee advised whether 

 they should returne to Ascalon, or by often assaults vexe 

 the citizens of Japhet. 



Chronicon Hierosolymitanum, eodem libro 9. cap. 12. 

 continueth this historie of these two hundreth saile of 

 ships, and sheweth how by their prowesse chiefly, the 

 multitude of the Sarazens were in short space vanquished 

 and overthrowen : The words are these ; Ab ipso vero 

 die tertiae feriae dum sic in superbia & elatione suae 

 multitudinis immobiles Saraceni persisterent, & multis 

 armorum terroribus Christianum populum vexarent, 



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