26/35 In four ivory chests the patriarch had collected the crosses, the images, the vases, and the relics of the holy place; they were seized by the conqueror, who was desirous of presenting the caliph with the trophies of Christian idolatry. He was persuaded, however, to intrust them to the patriarch and prince of Antioch; and the pious pledge was redeemed by Richard of England, at the expense of fifty-two thousand byzants of gold. [64] [Footnote 63: Renaudot, Hist.Patriarch.Alex.p. 545.] [Footnote 64: For the conquest of Jerusalem, Bohadin (p. |