428 KOGER OF WENDOVER. [A.D. 1099. patriarch, who was the head of the city, and the rest of the people they collected fifteen thousand pieces of gold. After this act of spoliation, they expelled all the Christians from the city, except the old and infirm, women and children. In the meantime, the pilgrims, thinking delay dangerous, at dawn of day proceeded on their journey with devotion of heart, and when they came to have a near view of the holy city of Jerusalem, they sent forth sighs and tears of joy, and taking off their shoes, continued their march with naked feet : thus they proceeded until they came in front of the city, and commenced the siege of it on the 6th of June. The number of the besieging army is said to have been about forty thousand foot, and fifteen hundred cavalry, besides aged persons, valetudinarians, and a rabble of others, who did not bear arms. In the city were said to be forty thousand well armed Turks, who had flocked thither as well to defend the royal city, as to provide for their own safety. The princes, perceiving that they could do no good on the eastern, western, and southern sides of the city on account of the deep valh'es, determined to besiege it on the north, and for this purpose they pitched their tents between the gate called Stephen's gate and the tower of David. First in order was Godfrey, and next him were Robert of Normandy and the count of Flanders : the lord Tancred and some others with him were posted around a tower which from a certain angle in the Avail was called the Angular Tower : the count of Toulouse with his troops laid siege to the walls between another tower and the western gate ; part of his troops were placed, towards the north, on the mountain, whereon the city is built, between the city itself and the church called Sion, which is about a bow-shot distant from the Avails. This is the place, where our Saviour is said to have supped with his disciples, and to have Avashed his feet : there also the Holy Spirit is said to have descended upon the disciples in fiery tongues; the mother of God there paid the debt of nature ; and the tomb of the first martyr St. Stephen is there held in reverence even unto this day. Of the first impetuous assault on the city. When the camps were pitched in a circle round the city, on the fifth day after their arrival, all were summoned by