[83] Mills mentions one from Manuel VII. to Pope Gregory VII., and Guibert of Nogent speaks of another which, though he cautiously avoids naming the emperor who wrote it, lest he should mislead from want of correct information, could only have been sent, under some of the circumstances he mentions, by Isaac Comnenus. Mills supposes it to have been the same with a letter written by Alexius, though it differs in many parts from the usual version of that epistle. Probably, however, this opinion is correct, as a letter is stated to have been addressed to Robert of Flanders, who was in his extreme youth in the time of Isaac Comnenus. [84] Murator. Script. Ital. [85] Albert of Aix; William of Tyre. [86] Ibid. [87] Robert, lib. i. [88] Guib. Nogent, lib. ii. [89] Hist. Hieros. abrev. Jacob. Vit. lib. i. [90] Will. Tyr. lib. i.; Albert. Chron. Hieros. [91] Will. Tyr.; Hist. Hieros.; Jacob. Vit. lib. i. [92] Will. Tyr. lib. i. [93] Albert. Aquensis; Hist. Hieros.; Jacobi Vitr.; Will. Tyr. [94] See note V. [95] William of Tyre says that he was wandering from place to place under the protection of Guiscard. This opinion I have adopted, although Albert of Aix declares that Peter joined him at Rome. [96] Will. of Malmsbury. [97] Mills. [98] Will. Tyr. lib. i. [99] Guibertus; Gesta Dei. [100] A. D. 1095. [101] Mills, chap. ii. [102] Will. Tyr. lib. i. [103] Robertus Monachus, lib. i. [104] I have followed as nearly as possible the account of Robertus Monachus, who was present. Having found in no book of any authenticity the speech attributed by more modern writers to Peter the Hermit, I have rejected it entirely as supposititious. Neither Robert, nor Albertus Aquensis, nor William of Tyre, nor Guibert of Nogent, nor James of Vitry, the most authentic historians of the crusade, some of whom were present at the council of Clermont, and most of whom lived at the time, even mention the appearance of Peter at that assembly. That he might be there, I do not attempt to deny, but that he addressed the people I believe utterly unfounded. [105] See note VI. [106] Robertus Monachus. [107] Fulcher of Chartres; Guibert of Nogent; William of Tyre. [108] See note VII. [109] Guibert of Nogent. [110] Fulcher of Chartres; William of Tyre. [111] Guibert; Gesta Dei. [112] Albert. Aquensis; Will. Tyr.; Guibert. [113] Albert of Aix. [114] See Ducange in Sig. Cruc. [115] Albert of Aix; James of Vitry; Robert the Monk; Guibert. [116] Fulcher. [117] Albert of Aix; William of Tyre. Mills follows this opinion; Guibert of Nogent and James of Vitry are opposed to it, and Fulcher gives a different account also. [118] Fulcher; Will. Tyr.; Albert Aquen. [119] Will. Tyr. [120] Albert of Aix; William of Tyre. [121] Albert of Aix. [122] Guibert. [123] Albert of Aix. [124] Ibid. [125] Guibert. [126] Baldric. [127] Albert of Aix.