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the booty of the captors, which was brought tothe public account, besides what was secretlyappropriated by individuals, amounted to eighthundred thousand pounds, it is not improbablethat the soldiers of the cross may have carriedto the east more of the precious metals thanever returned to that division of Europe . Suchwas the general eagerness to embark on the ex-pedition, that sovereigns pledged their jewelsand even their crowns to obtain money for theirequipment, that the nobles mortgaged or soldtheir estates to raise the requisite sums, and thechurches and monastic establishments convertedinto money their ornamental and sacred utensilsof gc/ld and silver to aid the great undertakingof rescuing the Holy Land from the power of theunbelievers. Much of the money thus obtainedmust have been expended in arms, horses, andother articles which their several countries couldsupply; much of it would necessarily be ex-pended in long journeys from France, Spain ,Britain, and Germany, to the confines of Asia ;or in the sea voyage by those who, like theroving Normans , adopted that mode of repairingto the theatre of warlike operations. But stillmuch must have remained and have been ap-plied both by the leaders of the several bodies,and by many individuals in those bodies, tosupply the necessaries of life after their arrivalin Asia .

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