346 THE HOLY LAND. 
not have been carried on ; since nothing excites 
their jealousy and opposition more, than seeing 
a Christian dig, or make excavation of any kind. 
They beUeve such works to originate always in 
some knowledge of hidden treasure. Owing 
to the great expense required in hewing and 
completing these tombs, it cannot be supposed 
that they belonged to vulgar persons ; but 
after Jerusalem was rescued from the hands of 
the Saracens, individuals of rank were interred 
beneath monuments of a very different descrip- 
tion, and in another situation, as may be proved 
by reference to the tombs of Godfrey de Bouillon, 
his brother Baldivin, and four others, in the 
Church of the Holy Sepulchre \ The only age 
to which, with any probability, they may be 
referred, is that long interval of prosperity and 
peace enjoyed by the Christians of Jerusalem 
after the dispersion of the Jews by Adrian ; that 
is to say, from the establishment of the Gentile 
Church, and the ordination of Mark ^ until the 
(l) See De Chdleauhriand' s Travels, vol. II. p. 15. Lond. 181 1. 
(2} He is called Saint Mark by Tillemont, which, unless attention 
be paid to the date of his ordination, may cause him to be con- 
founded with Mark the Evangelist. Mark was made bishop before the 
death of Adrian, which happened in the middle of the year 138. 
(See Tillemont, Hist, des Emp. torn. II. p. 294. Paris, 1702. and the 
authorities by him cited.) The establishment of the Gentile Church 
bears date from that period. See the list of jWarft'5 successors, as 
given by Eusebius. Hist. Eccles. lib. v. Paris, 1659. 
