They gathered these fruits without toil or personal danger: in the council of the Lateran, Innocent the Third declared an ambiguous resolution of animating the crusaders by his example; but the pilot of the sacred vessel could not abandon the helm; nor was Palestine ever blessed with the presence of a Roman pontiff.

[87] [Footnote 83: Thomassin (Discipline de l'Eglise, tom.iii.p.

311--374) has copiously treated of the origin, abuses, and restrictions of these _tenths_.

A theory was started, but not pursued, that they were rightfully due to the pope, a tenth of the Levite's tenth to the high priest, (Selden on Tithes; see his Works, vol.iii.

p.ii.p.