[272] Guibert; William of Tyre; Albert of Aix.
[273] Albert of Aix.
[274] Guibert, lib. iii.
[275] Albert of Aix, lib. iii.; William of Tyre.
[276] Fulcher; Guibert.
[277] Albert.
[278] Ibid.
[279] Radulph. Cadom. cap. 33; Guibert. lib. iii.; Will. Tyr.
[280] All the authors of the day that I have been able to meet with declare this expedition of Baldwin and Tancred to have been voluntary. Mills only, as far as I can discover, attributes their conduct to an order received from others. I mark the circumstance more particularly, because, under my view of the case, the fact of Tancred and his companions having separated themselves from the rest of the host, after such immense fatigues, abandoning repose and comfort, and seeking new dangers and fresh privations, is one of the most extraordinary instances on record of the effect of the chivalrous spirit of the age. Under this point of view, all the historians of that time saw the enterprise which they have recorded; but Mills, writing in the least chivalrous of all epochs, has reduced the whole to a corporal-like obedience of orders.
[281] Albert of Aix, lib. iii.; Radulph. cap. 37.