ARCHBISHOP BALDWIN ad. 



1190. 



inclementia distemperatos, diem foeliciter in terra sacra 

 clausurus extremum, singulos pro posse vinculo charitatis 

 amplectens, sumptibus & impensis, verbis, & vitae mentis 

 confirmavit. 



The same in English. 



THis Baldwine being the second successor unto 

 Thomas Becket, after he had heard ye wrong which 

 was done to our Saviour, and the signe of the Crosse 

 by Saladine the Sultan of Egypt, taking upon him the 

 Lords Character, he couragiously perfourmed his office of 

 preaching in the obedience thereof, as well in farre 

 distant Countreis as at home. And afterwards taking his 

 journey and imbarking himselfe at Marseils, having at 

 length passed ye Levant sea, he arrived safely in the 

 Haven of Tyrus, and from thence went over to Achon 

 unto our armie, besieging the Towne, and yet (as 

 it were) besieged it selfe : where finding many of our 

 Countreymen, and almost all men remaining in wonder- 

 full pensivenesse and despaire, through the withdrawing 

 of the Princes, some of them tyred with long expecta- 

 tion, others grievously afflicted with hunger and povertie, 

 and others distempered with the heate of the weather, 

 being ready happily to ende his dayes in the Holy land, 

 embracing every one according to his abilitie in the bond 

 of love, he ayded them at his costes and charges, and 

 strengthened them with his wordes and good examples 

 of life. 



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