104 ACRE. 
^m^ the state of the garrison previous to its last 
^ - y- > siege, gives us the following animated picture 
of its condition. " In it," says he ', *' were some 
of all countreys ; so that he who had lost his 
nation, might find it here. Most of them had 
several courts to decide their causes in ; and the 
pientie of judges caused the scarcitie of justice, 
malefactours appealing to a triall in the courts 
of their own countrey. It was sufficient inno- 
cencie for any offender in the Venetian court, 
that he was a Venetian. Personal acts were 
entituled nationall, and made the cause of the 
countrey. Outragies were everywhere practised, 
nowhere punished." If, upon the capture of the 
city, every building belonging to the Christians 
had been levelled with the earth, it is not more 
than might be expected in this enlightened age, 
from the retributive spirit of a victorious army, 
whose feelings had been similarly outraged. 
Fuller indeed asserts, that the conquerors, upon 
that occasion, " evened all to the ground, and 
(lest the Christians should ever after land here) 
demolished all buildings." But the same 
author, upon the testimony of Sandys, afterwards 
cumbersome clothes: women, children, aged persons, weak folks (all such 
hindering help, and mouthes witlwut arms) were sent away, and twelve 
thousand remained, conceived competent to mahe good the place" Bock 
IV. c. 33. 
(l) Historic of the Holy TFarrc, B. IV. c. 33. 
