om the sympathy of his flock; and the divine worship
in the church of the Resurrection was often disturbed by the savage
rudeness of its masters. The pathetic tale excited the millions of the
West to march under the standard of the cross to the relief of the Holy
Land; and yet how trifling is the sum of these accumulated evils, if
compared with the single act of the sacrilege of Hakem, which had been
so patiently endured by the Latin Christians! A slighter provocation
inflamed the more irascible temper of their descendants: a new spirit
had arisen of religious chivalry and papal dominion; a nerve was touched
of exquisite feeling; and the sensation vibrated to the heart of Europe.

[Footnote 73: See Elmacin (Hist. Saracen. p. 349, 350) and
Abulpharagius, (Dynast. p. 237, vers. Pocock.) M. De Guignes (Hist. des
Huns, tom iii. part i. p. 215, 216) adds the testimonies, or rather the
names, of Abulfeda and Novairi.]

[Footnote 74: From the expedition of Isar Atsiz, (A. H. 469, A.D. 1076,)
to the expulsion of the Ortokides, (A.D. 1096.) Yet William of Tyre (l.
i. c. 6, p. 633) asserts, that Jerusalem was thirty-eight years in the
hands of the Turks; and an Arabic chronicle, quoted by Pagi, (tom. iv.
p. 202) supposes that the city was reduced by a Carizmian general to
the obedience of the caliph of Bagdad, A. H. 463, A.D. 1070. These early
dates are not very compatible with the general history of Asia; and I am
sure, that as late as A.D. 1064, the regnum Babylonicum (of Cairo) still
prevailed in Palestine, (Baronius, A.D. 1064, No. 56.)]

[Footnote 75: De Guignes, Hist. des Huns, tom. i. p. 249-252. ]

[Footnote 76: Willierm. Tyr. l. i. c. 8, p. 634, who strives hard to
magnify the Christian grievances. The Turks exacted an aureus from each
pilgrim! The caphar of the Franks now is fourteen dollars: and Europe
does not complain of this voluntary tax.]

Chapter LVIII: The First Crusade.--Part I.

Origin And Numbers Of The First Crusade.--Characters Of The Latin
Princes.--Their March To Constantinople.--Policy Of The Greek
Emperor Alexius.--Conquest Of Nice, Antioch, And Jerusalem, By The
Franks.--Deliverance Of The Holy Sepulchre.-- Godfrey Of Bouillon, First
King Of Jerusalem.--Institutions Of The French Or Latin Kingdom.

About twenty years after the conquest of Jerusalem by the Turks, the
holy sepulchre was visited by a hermit of the name of Peter, a native
of Amiens, in the province of Picardy [1] in France. His