ACRE. 107 
Holy Land, or of persons who have alhided 
to it in their writings'. Of those piibUshed 
in our language, Maundrelfs and Pocockes are 
the best*. The former of these respectable 
authors was, probably, no stranger to the 
work now cited, if he did not borrow his 
own description of the antiquities of ^cre from 
the account there given*. Both of them 
consider the building, commonly called King 
Richard's Palace, as the Church of St. Andreiv. 
Perhaps it was that of St. John, erected by the 
Knights of Jerusalem, whence the city changed 
its name of Piolemais for that of St. John 
(3) See, for example, tlie works of Lithgow, Sandys, Egmont and 
Jieyman, Paul Lucas, Shaw, Baron de Tott, Perry, &c. Among tbe 
accounts given of Acre by these writers, that of Paul Lucas is truly 
ludicrous. Arriving there, he proceeds to describe the city j and excites 
our expectation by this marginal note, *^ Description de cette Ville." 
When the Reader seeks the promised information, he finds only these 
words: "S.Jean d' Acre est avjourd'hui assez peuple." See Voy. de 
Sieur P. Lticas, liv. iii. torn. i. p. 370. Amst. 1744. 
(4) Journey from Aleppo to Jerusalem, p. 52. Oxford, 1721. 
(5) Dmibdan performed his journey in 1652, and published the ac- 
count of it at Paris, in quarto, A. U. 1657- Maundrell's journey took 
place at Easter 1697 ; and his work appeared at Oxford in 1703. It is 
from the similarity of the following passages that the author has ven- 
tured a remark concerning their common origin. They are both 
describing the ruins of Acre. " Les mines de la ville sont tres grandes, 
les premiers desquelles sont celles de V Egtise de Saint Andre, qui est sur 
une iminence proche de la mer." The same subject is thus introduced by 
ATaimdrell. " Within the walls there still appear several ruins 
as first, those of the cathedral church, dedicated to St. Andrew, which 
stands not far from the sea-side, more high and conspicuous than the 
other ruins." 
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