OF  King  HENRY   IL    ^  3"

year,  the  interpofition  of  friends  fufpendcd  the  ^O^KV^
cffefts  of  fo  pernicious  a  difcord,  Gonrade  re- a,d.  nss.
maining  fole  mafter  of  the  city  of  Tyre,  and
Guy  de  Lufignan  making  his  abode  at  Tripoli,
where  his  fovereignty  was  acknowledged,  till
about  the  end  of  Auguft  in  the  following  year,
when  he  and  Conrade  joined  their  arms  to  be-
liege  Ptolemais,  under  the  walls  of  which  town,
defended  by  all  the  forces  of  Saladin,  and  af-
faulted  by  the  kings  of  England  and  France,
the  greatert  actions  of  this  crufade  were  per-
formed.
Before  I  proceed  to  relate  the  occurrences  of
the  year  eleven  hundred  and  eighty-eight  in
Henry's  foreign  dominions,  it  will  be  proper  to
finifh  the  ecclefiaftical  hifrory  of  the  reign  of
that  king,  by  mentioning  fome  particulars,  re-
lating to  the  churches  of  England,  Scotland,
and  Ireland,  of  which  no  account  has  yet  been
given.
