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ROGER OF WENDOVER Flowers of history. The history of England from the descent of the saxons to A.D. 1235. vol.1
page 417
aroused from their slumbers, wondered what this unusual
noise could mean, and when at length they saw all the streets
flowing with blood, and armed men in every quarter, they
abandoned their houses, and, trying to fly with their wives
and children, were every where confronted by the ministers
of death. The Christians, who inhabited different quarters
of the city, flew to arms, and joining their liberators made
great havoc on the enemy : all the houses with their stores
were broken open; gold, silver, rich garments, jewels and
vessels of inestimable value, carpets and cloths of pure silk,
were equally divided among men who a little before had
suffered from want and hunger, but now abounded in all
things. More than ten thousand Turks are said to have
been slain in the city, and their bodies lying unburied in the
streets were a miserable spectacle to look on. About five
hundred war-horses were found in the city, all thin and
suffering from want of food ; for little, fit either for men or 'horses to eat, was found in the city when it was taken.
Of the death of Axianus, prince and lord of Antioch.
Axianus, the lord of Antioch, seeing that the city was lost, went out alone through a postern gate, and in the anguish of his mind, was making his escape, but was met by some Armenians, who, knowing him, threw him on the ground and cut off his head with his own sword, and presented it to the princes before the whole army. Others of the nobles, uncertain what to do, and essaying to fly up to the upper garrison, were met by some of our men who were higher up than themselves, and thus being intercepted and embarrassed by the declivities of the hill, pressed too by our men from above, and endeavouring at the same time to defend themselves, they were thrown headlong, horses and men, in number about three hundred. Others endeavoured to escape into the mountainous districts, but our men pursued them and made some of them prisoners ; the rest, by the goodness of their horses, escaped to the mountains. Thus Antioch was taken in the fourteenth year after the pagans first got possession of it, which was A.D. 1098, and on the third day of the month of June.
Of Sensabol, and hoto he gave up his castle to Corboran.
When the tumult, occasioned by the capture of Antioch,
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