The _Estoire_ and _Itinerarium_ say that “the chief men among the Turks in Acre” were to be held as hostages by the Franks till the conditions of the treaty were fulfilled. Richard and Bohadin say, and the _Gesta_, R. Howden, and R. Coggeshall imply, that the hostages were to comprise the whole garrison. The _Estoire_ and _Itinerarium_ assert that the conditions were offered by the Turks in Acre with Saladin’s knowledge and consent; and the _Itinerarium_ adds that the term appointed for their fulfilment was that day month, _i. e._ August 12. The king says “Pactione etiam ex parte Saladini plenius firmata ... diemque ad haec omnia persolvenda nobis constituit.” R. Diceto says “Qui” (_i. e._ the Saracens in Acre) “communicato cum suis consilio coeperunt tractare de pace talibus pactionibus quod Saladinus Sanctam Crucem certo die restitueret,” etc. The _Gesta_ and R. Howden make the term forty days from the surrender, _i. e._ August 20. Bohadin (238) represents Saladin as ignorant of the whole matter till after the surrender, and Ibn Alathyr and R. Coggeshall do the same; the latter says that Saladin “nimium ex animo consternatus, facturum quod petebatur se esse spopondit,” while the two Arab writers represent the Sultan as at first refusing to confirm the treaty and afterwards accepting its conditions, but, according to Bohadin, with a modification as to the term for payment which brings the date for the first instalment practically to the time named in the _Itinerarium_, viz. a month after the surrender. NOTE III _The Advance from the Two Casals to Ramlah_