[74] See p. 88.
[75] Page 116.
[76] Wilken Geschichte der Kreuzzüge, Vol. iii. pt. ii. p. 39.
[77] Page 116.
[78] The organisation and the rules of the Hospitallers were similar to those of the Templars; but as that order existed down to modern times, the rules, &c., given by Vertot, contain a great number of modern additions.
[79] When we use the word "Master," we would always be understood to mean the Master or his representative.
[80] That is, never to quit the order.
[81] This influence of the clergy excited the spleen of the knights. Gerard de Caux, in his examination hereafter to be noticed, said, "The aged men of the order were unanimous in maintaining that the order had gained nothing in internal goodness by the admission of learned members."
[82] Sir W. Scott is perfectly correct in making the smith so important a character in his St. Valentine's Eve.
[83] The Armenia of the crusades was a part of Cilicia.