The city of Jerusalem

by C. R. Conder

[554] Ibid., pp. 91, 92.

[555] The seventh month of the Moslem lunar year, answering to October about this time.

[556] Guy le Strange, “Palestine under the Moslems,” p. 484.

[557] “Regesta,” Nos. 681, 685, 688; Beha-ed-Dîn, II. lxxi. pp. 185–9, English translation.

[558] The second Crusade was an armed pilgrimage of King Louis VII. of France in 1147 A. D., with a futile attack on Damascus (“Latin Kingdom of Jer.,” pp. 108–12).

[559] Perhaps 50,000 men.

[560] English translation, 1897, pp. 12, 350.

[561] Robinson, “Bib. Res.,” 1838, i. p. 317.

[562] “Regesta,” Nos. 934, 940, 974.

[563] Ibid., Nos. 997, 1010; “Latin Kingdom of Jer.,” p. 313; A. Socin (“Baedeker’s Guide,” 1876, p. 177).