Note 070
From Chapter 59 of the Decline & Fall

Bohadin, p. 14. He quotes the judgment of Balianus, and the prince of Sidon, and adds, ex illo mundo quasi hominum paucissimi redierunt. Among the Christians who died before St. John d'Acre, I find the English names of De Ferrers earl of Derby (Dugdale, Baronage, part i. p. 260), Mowbray (idem, p. 124), De Mandevil, De Fiennes, St. John, Scrope, Bigot, Talbot, etc.

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