The terms on which Karakoush and El-Meshtoub agreed to surrender Acre are given, in various forms, by nine contemporary or almost contemporary authorities. (1) King Richard, in a letter to the Abbot of Clairvaux, R. Howden, iii. 131. (2) Bohadin, _Rec. Hist. Orient._, iii. 237; Schultens’s edition, 179. (3) _Estoire de la Guerre Sainte_, ll. 5199-224, and _Itin. Reg. Ric._, 231, 232; these two are here practically identical and may be counted as one. (4) _Gesta Ric._, 178, 179. (5) R. Howden, iii. 120, 121. (6) R. Diceto, ii. 94. (7) R. Coggeshall, 32. (8) R. Devizes (ed. Stevenson), 51, 52. (9) Ibn Alathyr, _Rec. Hist. Orient._, II. 46. All these writers mention, among the conditions promised by the Moslems, the restoration of the relic of the Cross; and all except one—R. Devizes—mention also the release of a number of Christian prisoners: the king and R. Diceto say fifteen hundred; R. Coggeshall says seven hundred, some of whom the kings were to select; Ambrose and the _Itinerarium_ say two thousand prisoners of distinction and five hundred of lower rank; the _Gesta_ say fifteen hundred ordinary prisoners and two hundred knights, these latter to be specially selected by the kings; R. Howden follows this latter account, but reduces the first number to a thousand; Ibn Alathyr mentions only the “selected” prisoners, whose number he gives as five hundred. The earlier of the two extant redactions of Bohadin (_Recueil_, iii. 237) has “five hundred prisoners of ordinary condition, and one hundred others of rank, whom the Franks might ask for by name”; but in the later redaction (represented by Schultens’s edition) the figures are fifteen hundred and one thousand. This later redaction, of which the only known MS. was written in the year after Bohadin’s death, is considered not to be his own work (_Recueil_, iii. 374); but its variations from the earlier recension seem entitled to some consideration, as they are so nearly contemporary and may have the force of corrections; this may be the case in the passage under consideration here. Neither King Richard, R. Diceto, nor R. Devizes, mentions a money payment. The _Estoire_, _Itinerarium_, _Gesta Ricardi_, R. Howden, Bohadin, and Ibn Alathyr make the promised sum two hundred thousand “bezants” (_Est._), “talentorum Saracenicorum” (_Itin._), “dinars” (Bohadin and Ibn Alathyr). R. Coggeshall absurdly says seven hundred thousand bezants. The only authorities for the special payment promised to Conrad are the two Moslem ones, and as to its amount the two recensions of Bohadin again differ; the earlier says four thousand gold pieces, the later fourteen thousand, viz. ten thousand to Conrad himself and four thousand to his knights. Ibn Alathyr also says Conrad was to have fourteen thousand; and the later recension of Bohadin is followed by Abu Shama in his extract from that author (_Recueil_, v. 25, 26), as to both the number of prisoners and the amount of money.