A.D. 1095.] PETER THE HERMIT. of St. Paul, Henry de Asca, Ralph de Bangentiac, Hebrand de PauSac, William Amauen, Genton de Bar, Gast de Bederi, William de Mont Pessuian, Girard de Rosseillon, Gerald de Ceresiac, Roger de Barneville, Guy de Possessa, Guy de Garlandia, Thomas de Sprea, Gaio de Chaumont, and Stephen count of Blois. All these were the captains and leaders of the knights and others of the faithful, who awaited the fitting time to set forth, and were prepared with large bodies of armed men to join the Christian warfare, and nobly to devote themselves to this pilgrimage for the name of Christ. Of the revelation made to Peter the hermit concerning the above-named enterprise. This military undertaking was in no slight degree promoted by the preaching of Peter the hermit ; concerning whom, I believe, it will not be without fruit that I should relate, for the benefit of those who never heard of it, the divine revelation which was made to him. He was a priest, named Peter, following the profession of a hermit, and shortly before these events had travelled out of France, bound by a vow of pilgrimage, to the Holy Land. When he arrived at his destination, he paid the tribute required by the law which regulates the admission of pilgrims, and entering the city, was received to lodge in the house of a Christian family. From his host he heard an account of the miserable state of the true believers who resided under the rule of the infidels, and what he thus learned from hearsay, he afterwards confirmed by the testimony of his own eye-sight. Hearing that Simeon, the patriarch of the city, was a religious man, who feared the Lord, he went to him, and had much conversation with him. The patriarch, gathering from the words of Peter that he was a man of circumspection, explained to him all the sufferings which God's people endured who resided in that city. Peter sympathised with the miseries which afflicted his brethren, and could not refrain from tears. " Be assured," said he to the patriarch, " that if the Roman church and the princes of the west could be informed of this calamitous state of things from some one on whom they could depend, they would certainly endeavour to find a remedy for your sufferings. Write a letter, then, to our lord the pope and the Roman churches well as to the