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280 the name of Jesus Christ, and destroy the power, the religion, and even the very name of the Saracens. You write to us that you propose to join your father-in-law, and come to the help of the Latins, and for this we re- turn you abundant and fervent thanks. As for the route which our people design to take, we cannot inform you of that until we shall have consulted the other sovereigns, but we will communicate to them your in- tentions, and those of your father-in-law, in order that they may the better deliberate on what they will have to do ; and we will inform your magnificence by a messenger of what shall have been resolved upon. Persevere, then, great prince, in your salutary resolu- tion, for you may trust that God, if you serve Him faith- fully, will secure and exalt your throne. In Him is all power, and might, and empire, and the hearts of kings are in his hands. With a glance of his eye he rules the universe, and none can resist his will."

Clement X. doubtless did not fail to inform the Kino-s of France and Navarre, and even the Kino- of England, of the offer of Abaga, though no written proof that he did so is to be found in the chronicles of the time ; in other countries, however, the effects of this negotiation become visible. We find that in 1269, an ambassador from Michael Paleologus and the Grand Khan of the Tartars came to Valence James, King of Arragon,and the historian Mariana asserts that this was the second embassy the King of Arragon had received from the Tartars, and that these new ambassadors came in company with one John Alaric, a native of Perpignan, who had been sent to Tartary in answer to the first mission.