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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.2
page 345
ROOr.rt OK WEXDOVEK. [A.D. 1-210
emperor of Constantinople, the king of Sicily, who was elected emperor of Koine, the kings of France, England. Hungary, Jerusalem, Cyprus, Arragon, and other princes and nobles, and from cities and other places. When all of these were assembled in the place above-mentioned, and, according to the custom of general councils, each was placed according to his rank, the pope himself lirst delivered an exhortation, and then the sixty articles were recited in full council, which seemed agreeable to some ami tedious to others. At length he commenced to preach concerning the business of the cross, and the subjection of the Holy Land, adding as follows:
- Moreover, that nothing be omitted in the matter of the cross of Christ, it is our will and command, that patriarchs, archbishops, bishops, abbats, priors, and others, who have the charge of spiritual matters, carefully set forth the work of the cross to the people entrusted to their care ; and in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost, the one alone and eternal God, supplicate kings, dukes, princes, marquises, earls, barons, and other nobles, and also the communities ot' cities, towns, and villages, if they cannot go in person to the assistance of the Holy Land, to furnish a suitable number of soldiers, with all supplies necessary for three years, according to their means, in remission of their sins, as in the general letters is expressed ; and it is also our will that those who build ships for this purpose be partakers in this remission. 15lit to those who refuse, if any be so ungrateful, let it be on our behalf declared, that they will for a certainty account to us for this at the awful judgment of a rigorous Judge; considering, before they do refuse, with what chance of salvation they will be able to appear before the only Goti and the only-begotten Son of (iod, to whose bands the Father has entrusted all things, if they refuse to serve that crueilied one, in this their proper service, by whose gift they hold lib', by whose kindness they art; supported, and by whose blood they have been redeemed. And we, wishing to set an example to others, give and grant thirty thousand pounds for this business, besides a fleet, which we will supply to those who assume tlK. cross from this city and the neighbouring districts; and we moreover assign for the accomplishment of this, three thousand marks of silver, which remain to us out of the alms of some of the true faith. And as we desire to have
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