The Knights Templars

by C. G. Addison

FOOTNOTES:

[1] Will. Tyr. lib. i. cap. 2, lib. viii. cap. 3. Jac. de Vitr. Hist. Hierosol. cap. lxii. p. 1080. D’Herbelot Bib. Orient. p. 270, 687, ed. 1697.

[2] Procopius de ædificiis Justiniani, lib. 5.

[3] Will. Tyr. lib. xii. cap. 7, lib. viii. cap. 3. Hist. Orient. Jac. de Vitr. apud Thesaur. Nov. Anecd. Martene, tom. iii. col. 277. Phocæ descript. Terr. Sanct. cap. 14, col. 1653.

[4] Chrysost. Henriq. de Priv. Cist. p. 477.

[5] See also Hoveden apud X script. page 479. Hen. Hunting. ib. page 384.

[6] Will. Tyr. lib. xiii. cap. 26; Anselmus, lib. iii. epistolarum, epist. 43, 63, 66, 67.

[7] Reg. Cart. S. Joh. Jerus. in Bib. Cotton. Nero E. b. No. xx. fo. 118.

[8] Odo de Diogilo de Ludov. vii. profectione in Orientem, p. 67.

[9] Duchesne hist. franc. scrip. tom. iv. p. 512; epist. 58, 59.

[10] Dugd. Monast. vol. vii. p. 838; vol. ii. p. 820, 843, ed. 1830. Baronage, tom. i. p. 122.

[11] Will. Tyr. lib. xvii. cap. 21, cap. 9.

[12] Registr. epist. apud Martene, tom. ii. col. 647.

[13] Will. Tyr. lib. xvii. cap. 27; lib. xviii. cap. 14; lib. xix. cap. 8.

[14] Keightley’s Crusaders. The virtues of Noureddin are celebrated by the Arabic Historian Ben-Schunah, by Azzeddin Ebn-al-athir, by Khondemir, and in the work entitled, “The flowers of the two gardens,” by Omaddeddin Kateb. See also Will. Tyr. lib. xx. cap. 33.

[15] Alwakidi, translated by Ockley, Hist. Saracen. Cinnamus, lib. iv. num. 22.

[16] His. de Saladin, per M. Marin, tome i. p. 120, 1. Gibbon, cap. 59.

[17] Hist. Franc. Script. tom. iv. p. 692, 693. Gesta Dei, epist. xiv. p. 1178, 9.

[18] Martene, vet. Script., tom. ii. col. 846, 847, 883. Gesta Dei, tom. i. p. 1181-1184. Duchesne. Hist. Franc. script. p. 698.

[19] Will. Tyr. lib. xxii. cap. 5.

[20] Will. Tyr. lib. xviii. cap. 4, 5. lib. xx. cap. 5. Hoveden in Hen. 2, p. 622. De Vertot, Hist. des Chevaliers de Malte, liv. ii. p. 150 to 161, ed. 1726.

[21] Will. Tyr. lib. xxi. cap. 29.

[22] Académie des Inscriptions, tom. xvii. p. 127, 170.

[23] Adjecit etiam et alia a spiritu superbiæ, quo ipse plurimum abundabat, dictata, quæ præsenti narrationi non multum necessarium est interserere.—Will. Tyr. lib. xx. cap. 32.

[24] Will. Tyr. lib. xx. xxi. xxii.

[25] Will. Tyr. lib. xx-xxii. Abulpharadge Chron. Syr. p. 379-381.

[26] Hemingford, cap. 33. Hoveden, ad ann. 1185; Radulph de Diceto, p. 622-626. Concil. Mag. Brit. tom. iv, p. 788. Matt. West. ad ann. 185; Guill. Neubr. tom. i. lib. iii. cap. 12, 13.

[27] Speed. Hist. Britain, p. 506. A. D. 1185.

[28] Stowe’s Survey. Tanner, Notit. Monast. Dugd. Orig. Jurid. Herbert, Antiq. Inns of Court.

[29] Dugd. Monast. Angl. vol vi. part ii. p. 820.

[30] Will. Tyr. lib. xii. cap. 7.

[31] Will. Tyr. lib. xx. cap. 21. Rob. de Monte, appen. ad chron. Sig. p. 631. Marin, Sanut. p. 221. Bernard, Thesaur. p. 768. Matt. Par. p. 142.

[32] Roccus Pyrrhus, Sicil. Antiq. tom. iii. col. 1000, 1093, 4, 5, 6, 7, &c.

[33] Mariana, de. reb. Hist. lib. ii. cap. 23.

[34] Script. rer. Germ. tom. ii. col. 584.

[35] Constantinop. Christ. lib. iv. p. 157.

[36] Hist. Gen. de Languedoc. Hist. de la ville de Paris, tom. i. p. 174. Gall. christ. nov. tom. vi., tom. vii. col. 853.

[37] Dugd. Monast. Angl. vol. vi. part 2, p. 800 to 817. Concil. Magnæ Britanniæ, tom. iii. p. 333 to 382. Acta Rymeri, tom iii. p. 279, 288, 291, 295, &c.

[38] Nichol’s Hist. of Leicestershire.

[39] Clutterbuck’s Hist. of Hertfordshire. Acta Rymeri, tom. iii. p. 133, 134. Dodsworth, MS. vol. xxxv.

[40] Morant’s Hist. Essex. Rymer, tom. iii. p. 290 to 294.

[41] Inquis. terrar. ut sup. Peck’s MS. in Musseo Britannico, vol. iv. fol. 95. Dodsworth, MS. vol. xx. p. 65, 67. Dugd. Baron, tom. i. p. 70.

[42] Monast. Angl. Hasted. Hist. Kent. Manning’s Surrey. Atkyn’s Gloucestershire; and see the references in Tanner. Nash’s Worcestershire. Bridge’s Northamptonshire, vol. ii. p. 100.

[43] Thoroton’s Nottinghamshire. Burn and Nicholson’s Westmoreland. Worsley’s Isle of Wight. Mat. Par. p. 615, ed. Lond. 1640.

[44] Dugd. Monast. Angl. p. 838.

[45] Dugd. Monast. p. 844.

[46] Acta Rymeri, tom. i. p. 30-32, 54, 298, 574, 575.

[47] 2 Inst. p. 432, 465.

[48] Stat. Westr. 2, cap. 43, 13 Ed. I.

[49] Concil. Mag. Brit. tom. ii. p. 335, 339, 340, 355, 356. Monast. Angl. p. 818.

[50] Peck’s MS. in Museo Brittannico, vol. iv. p. 65.

[51] Nicholl’s Hist. Leicestershire, vol. iii. pl. cxxvii. fig. 947, p. 943; vol. ii. pl. v. fig. 13.

[52] Rot. claus. 49. H. III. m. xi. d. Acta Rymeri, tom. iii. p. 802.

[53] L’Histoire des Cisteaux, Chrisost Henriques, p. 479.

[54] Lord Littleton’s Life of Henry II. tom. ii. p. 356. Hoveden, 453. Chron. Gervasii, p. 1386, apud X. script.

[55] Lansdowne MS. 207 E. fol. 467. Ibid. fol. 201.

[56] Acta Rymeri, tom. i. p. 442, 4, 5. Wilkins. Concilia, tom. ii. p. 230.

[57] Matt. Par. p. 381.

[58] Matt. Par. p. 253, 645.

[59] Wilkins. Concilia Magnæ Britanniæ, tom. ii. p. 19, 26, 93, 239, 253, 272, 292.

[60] Muratori script. rer. Ital. p. 792. Cotton MS. Nero E. vi. p. 60, fol. 466.

[61] Radulph de Diceto, p. 626. Matt. Par. ad ann. 1185. Hoveden, p. 636, 637.

[62] The above passage is almost literally translated from the Chron. Joan. Bromton, abbatis Jornalensis, script. X. p. 1144, ad ann. 1185.

[63] Contin. hist. apud Martene, tom. v. col. 606.

[64] Contin. Hist. Will. Tyr. apud Martene, tom. v. col. 585, 593-596. This valuable old chronicle appears to have been written by a resident in Palestine. It was translated into Latin by Francis Piper and published by Muratori inter rer Italicar. script. tom. vii. as the chronicle of Bernard the treasurer. Assizes de Jerusalem, cap. 287, 288.

[65] Rad. Cogg. apud Martene, tom. v. col. 550-552. Contin. Hist., ib. col. 599, 600.

[66] Bohadin ib’n Sjeddadi, apud Schultens, ex. MS. Arab. Pref.

[67] Rad. Cogg. col. 552, 553. Abulfed. Chron. Hejir. 582.

[68] Muhammed, F. Muhammed, N. Koreisg. Ispahan, apud Schultens, p. 18.

[69] Omad’eddin Kateb, in the book called Fatah. Extraits Arabes, Michaud. Radulph Coggleshale. Chron. Terr. Sanct. apud Martene, tom. v. col. 552 to 559. Contin. Hist. ib. col. 602—608. Bohadin, p. 70. Jac. de Vitr. cap. xciv. Abulfeda, cap. 27. Abulpharag. Chron. Syr. p. 399, 401, 402. Gesta Dei, tom. i. p. 1150, 1. Vinisauf. apud Gale, p. 15.

[70] Hoveden, rer. Angl. script. post Bedam, p. 636, 637. Chron. Gervas. ib. col. 1562.

[71] Contin. Hist. col. 611. Jac. de Vitr. cap. xc. Vinisauf, p. 257. Michaud, Extr.

[72] Rad. Cogg. col. 567, 568.

[73] Ibn-Alatsyr. Extraits par M. Michaud. Bib. des Croisaides, p. 464.

[74] Rad. Cogg. col. 570-573. Contin. Hist. Bell. Sacr. col. 614, 615, 621. Bohadin, cap. xxxvi. and the Arab Extracts, apud Schultens, cap. xxvii. p. 42, 43.

[75] Hoveden, Rer. Angl. script. post Bedam, p. 645, 646.

[76] Bohadin apud Schultens, cap. 36. Abulfeda, ib. cap. xxvii. p. 43. Wilken Comment. p. 148.

[77] Khotbeh, or sermon of Mohammed Ben Zeky.—Michaud, Extraits Arabes.

[78] Michaud, Pieces justificatives, No. ix. 485.

[79] Hoveden, p. 646. Contin. Hist. col. 623. Ibn-Alatsyr, p. 474-477.

[80] Ipse meis vidi oculis, uno eorum cadente, alter mox eundem locum occuparet, immotique, perstarent ad instar muri. Bohadin apud Schultens, p. 85. Michaud, Extraits, p. 487, 488.

[81] Ibn Alatsyr, ut sup. p. 479-484, 492. Bohadin, cap. 41-44, 48, 49.

[82] Radulph de Diceto, apud X. script. p. 642.

[83] Vinisauf apud Gale XV. script, vol. 2. p. 270. Rad. Cogg. col. 574. Gesta Dei, tom. 1, part 2, p. 1165. Radulph de Diceto col. 649.

[84] Ducange, Gloss, tom. vi. p. 1036. Cotton MS. Nero E. vi. p. 60, fol. 466.

[85] Bohadin, cap. 55-58, 75-84. Ibn Alat. ut sup. p. 499, 500, 510-514. Vinisauf, apud Gale XV. script. cap. 58-60. D’Herbelot, Bib. Orient, p. 743.

[86] Rad. Cogg. col. 557. Vinisauf, cap. 64, 74. L’Art de Verif. tom. 4, p. 59, ed. 1818.

[87] Hist. de la maison de Sablè, liv. vi. chap. 5. p. 174, 175. Cotton MS. Nero, E. vi. p. 60. folio 466, where he is called Robert de Sambell. L’Art de Verif. tom. v. p. 347.

[88] Jac. de Vitr. Gesta Dei, cap. 65.

[89] Michaud, Hist. des Croisades, tom. ii. p. 383, 384.

[90] Bohadin, cap. 95-110, 112. I’Bn Alat. p. 520. Bohadin, cap. 115. Contin. Hist. col. 634, 635.

[91] Contin. Hist. col. 633. Trivet ad ann. 1191. Chron. de S. Denis, lib. ii. cap. 7.

[92] Itinerarium regis Anglorum Ricardi et aliorum in terram Hierosolymorum auctore Gaufrido de Vinisauf. Gale’s scriptores Historiæ Anglicanæ, tom. ii. p. 247-429.

[93] Erat autem perelegans ea et per sane venusta, validissimis mœnibus, celsissimis ædificiis, ita ut terrorem quendam gravitate et firmitate incuteret. Bohadin, apud Schultens, pp. 100-201. Ibn Alat. p. 523-525. Vinisauf, lib. iv.

[94] Bohadin, apud Schultens, cap. 156, p. 235, 236.

[95] Vinisauf, lib. vi. Bohadin, p. 238. Abulfeda, p. 51. Contin. Hist. col. 638, 641.

[96] Cotton MS. Nero E. VI. 23, i.

[97] Jac. de Vitry, Gest. Dei, tom i. pars. 9, p. 1113.

[98] Michaud, Hist. des Croisades, tom. iii. p. 39.

[99] Othonis de S. Blazio, apud Martene, tom. vi. p. 886. Contin. Hist. ib. tom. v.

[100] Lib. i. ii. epistolarum. Inn. III., epist. 138, 567.

[101] Cotton MS. Nero E. VI., p. 60, fol. 466. Ducange, Gloss. tom. vi. p. 1036.

[102] Bernardus Thesaurarius, Script, rer. Italicar. tom. vii. cap. 187. p. 823.

[103] Cotton, MS. Nero E. VI. fol. 23 i.—p. 60, fol. 466. Ducange, Gloss. tom. vi. col. 1036.

[104] Bern Thesaur. cap. 190-200, Script. Ital. tom. viii. Jac. de Vitr. p. 1135-1143. Martene. Thesaur. anec. tom. iii. col. 294, &c. Ibn Ferat p. 770. Ibn Alat. p. 538. Oliverii, Hist. Damiatana, tom. ii. cap. 31.

[105] Epist. apud Matt. Par. p. 312, 313. Martene, tom. v. col. 1480.

[106] Matt. Par. p. 314. See also another letter, p. 313.

[107] Ibn Schunah, ad ann. Hejir 626. Tyr. Contin. Hist. col. 695-699. Marin Sanut. p. 213.

[108] Od Rainald, ad ann. 1229.

[109] Cotton MS. Nero E. VI. 23 i. p. 60, fol. 466. L’Art de Verif. tom. v. p. 351.

[110] Matt. Par. p. 615. Tyr. Contin. Hist. col. 722-725. Marin Sanut. cap. 15. Michaud, Extr. p. 549. Ibn Schunah, Hejir. 638.

[111] Acta Rymeri, tom. i. p. 134, 165, 170, 194, 195, 208, 209. Matt. Par. p. 234-237, 253. Matt. West. p. 271.

[112] Acta Rymeri, tom. i. p. 234, 258, 270, 275, 311, 373, 380.

[113] Addison’s Temple Church.

[114] Cart. 11, Hen. 3, m. 33. Dugd. Monast. Angl. vol. vi. part 2. p. 844.

[115] Plac. de Quo Warranto temp. Edw. 1, rot. 4, d. p. 191. Spelman, Gloss p. 251.

[116] Djemal’eddeen, ad ann. Hejir. 841. Michaud, Extraits Arabes, p. 549.

[117] Steph. Baluz, Miscell. lib. vi. p. 357, de constructione Castri Saphet.

[118] Conder’s Modern Traveller.—Palestine, p. 335, 337-339.

[119] Marin. Sanut. p. 217. Tyr. Contin. Hist. col. 731, 732. Michaud, Extraits, p. 551, 718. Matt. Par. 631, 632.

[120] Matt. Par. p. 631 to 633. Abulpharag, p. 486. D’Herbelot, Bib. Orient. p. 357, 628.

[121] Cotton MS. Nero E. VI. p. 60, fol. 466. L’Art de Verif. tom. v. 552. Matt. Par. p. 618-620.

[122] Matt. Par. p. 711.

[123] Matt. Par. p. 733.

[124] Matt. Par. p. 736, et in additamentis, p. 161, ad ann. 1247.

[125] Matt. Par. in additamentis, p. 168, 169.

[126] Joinville, p. 47.

[127] Ibn Schunah, ad ann. Hejir, 648.

[128] Joinville, p. 58. Matt. Par. Chron. Nan. p. 790.

[129] Acta Rymeri, tom. i. p. 473.

[130] Gal. Christ. nov. tom. ii. col. 1008. Tyr. Contin. col. 735.

[131] Acta Rymeri, tom. i. p. 474, 557, 558. Matt. Par. p. 899.

[132] Reg. et constit. ord. Cisterc. p. 480. Acta Rymeri, tom. i. p. 575-582.

[133] Od. Rainald, ad ann. 1257. Tyr. Contin. col. 732, 735-737.

[134] Acta Rymeri, tom. i. p. 698.

[135] Ib. p. 730, 878, 879.

[136] Tyr. Contin. Hist. col. 737, 742. Sanut. p. 220-222. Abulfeda, apud Wilkins, p. 223. Ibn Ferat Chron. Arab ad ann. Hejir. 662, 664. Mohieddin, by Schafi Ibn Ali Abbas. Michaud Extraits, 668, 669, 673, 674.

[137] Ibn Ferat. Hejir. 666. Michaud, Extr. 675-785. Tyr. Contin. col. 743

[138] Tyr. Contin. col. 745. Sanut, p. 224. Michaud, p. 757. Trivet, ad ann. 1272. Walsingham, p. 43. Acta Rymeri, tom. i. p. 885, 889; tom. ii. p. 2.

[139] Tyr. Contin. col. 746, 747. Acta Rymeri, tom. ii. p. 34.

[140] De excidio urbis Acconis apud Martene, tom. v. col. 757, 782. De Guignes, Hist. des Huns, tom. iv. p. 162. Abulfarag. Chron. Syr. p. 595. Wilkens, Comment. Abulfed. Hist. p. 231-234. Marin. Sanut. Torsell, lib. iii. pars 12, cap. 21, 22. Makrisi, ad ann. Hejir. 689, 690. Hermann Cornarius, Collect. d’Ekard Michaud, Bib. des Croisades, tom. ii.

[141] Concil. Mag. Brit. tom. ii. p. 350-352, 387, 388. Cotton MS. Nero E. VI. 23 i. p. 60, fol. 466. L’Art de Verif. tom. i. p. 523, ed. 1783. Rainald, tom. xiv. ad ann. 1294.

[142] Haiton, Hist. Tartar. cap. 43. Chron. de Nangis Rainald, ad ann. 1299, 1300, n. 34. Marin. Sanut. p. 242. De Guignes, tom iv. p. 184.

[143] Ibn Ferat, ad ann. Hejir. 690. Sanut. p. 232.

[144] Acta Rymeri, tom. i. p. 575-579, 582, tom. ii. p. 529. Martene, tom. vii. col. 156.

[145] Acta Rymeri, tom. ii. p. 683. Hemingford, vol. i. p. 159, 244. Rolls of Parliament, vol. i. p. 2. Ib. No. 7.

[146] Dupuy, tom. ii. p. 309. Chron. St. Denis. Acta Rymeri, tom. iii. p. 18.

[147] Ostendens duo ossa quod dicebat illa esse quæ ceciderunt de talis suis. Processus contra Templarios. Raynouard, Monumens Historiques, p. 73, ed. 1813.

[148] Ponderibus appensis in genitalibus, usque ad exanimationem. Ib. p. 35.

[149] Acta Rymeri, tom. iii. p. 35, 37.

[150] Knyghton, apud X. script. col. 2494, 2531. Acta Rymeri, tom. iii. p. 30-32, 34, 35, 45.

[151] Acta Rymeri, tom. iii. p. 100-103, 111, 121, 122.

[152] Acta Rymeri, p. 168, 169.

[153] Concil. Mag. Brit. tom. ii. p. 346, 347. Acta Rymeri, tom. iii. p. 174, 175, 178, 179.

[154] The original draft of these articles of accusation, with the corrections and alterations, is preserved in the Tresor des Chartres. Raynouard, Monumens Historiques, p. 50, 51. The proceedings against the Templars in England are preserved in MS. in the British Museum, Harl. No. 252, 62, f. p. 113; No. 247, 68, f. p. 144. Bib. Cotton. Julius, b. xii. p. 70; and in the Bodleian Library and Ashmolean Museum. The principal part of them has been published by Wilkins in the Concilia Magnæ Britanniæ, tom ii. p. 329-401, and by Dugdale, in the Monast. Angl. vol. vi. part ii. p. 844-848.

[155] Concil. Mag. Brit. tom. ii. p. 350-383. Acta Rymeri, tom. iii. p. 179, 180.

[156] Raynouard, p. 52, 57, 75, ed. 1813. Dupuy, p. 138, 139, 174, ed. 1700.

[157] Chron. Cornel. Zanfliet apud Martene, tom. v. col. 159. Bocat. de cas. vir. illustr. lib. ix. cap. 21. Joan. Can. Sti. Vict. Contin. de Nangis, ad ann. 1310. Rayn.

[158] Acta Rymeri, tom. iii. p. 194, 195, 224, 225, 227, 230-235. Concil. Mag. Brit. tom. ii. p. 305-314; tom. iii. p. 228, 229.

[159] Agnes Lovecote dixit quod ... fratres aperuerunt quandam voltam et perduxerunt de illo loco monstrum quoddam ad formam seu imaginem diaboli, habens loco oculorum lapides rutilantes et illuminantes capitulum, cujus culum osculabantur omnes, primo Magister, et postea alii, et postea ponebant unam crucen nigram ad culum dicti monstri, et spuebant omnes in crucem...! Deponit se audivisse à quâdam dominâ Agnete, quæ dicebat se audivisse à sorore cujusdam Templarii, quod cum ipsa soror denudasset fratrem suum post mortem, credens invenire signa salutis, invenit in braccis dicti Templarii fratis sui crucem pendentem contra anum...! Concil. Mag. Brit. tom. ii. p. 350-364.

[160] Acta Rymeri, tom. iii. p. 290. MS. Bodl. F. 5, 2. Concil. p. 364, 365. Acta Rymeri, tom. iii. p. 228, 231, 232.

[161] Concil. Mag. Brit. tom. ii. p. 383-391, 394-401.

[162] Concilia Hispaniæ, tom. v. p. 223. Raynouard, p. 199-204.

[163] Secund. vit. Clem. 5, p. 43. Rainald, ad ann. 1311, n. 55. Walsingham, p. 99. Antiq. Britann. p. 210.

[164] Maratorii collect. tom. iii. p. 448; tom. x. col. 377. Mariana, tom. iii. p. 157. Raynouard, p. 191, 192.

[165] Cotton MS. Nero E. vi. 23 i. Ib. p. 60, fol. 466. Acta Rymeri, tom. iii. p. 380.

[166] Lansdown MS. 207, E. vol. v. fol. 162, 163, 201, 284, 317, 467. Acta Rymeri, tom. i. p. 134, 342, 344, 345, part 3, p. 104. Matt. Par. p. 253-255, 258, 270, 314, 615, et in ad. p. 480. Concil. Mag. Brit. tom. ii. p. 340; tom. xi. p. 335, 339, 341, 343, 344. Prynne, collect. 3, 143.

[167] Concil. Mag. Brit. tom. ii. p. 393.

[168] Villani, lib. viii. cap. 92. Dupuy, ed. 1700, p. 71, 128, 139. Raynouard, p. 60, 209, 210.

[169] Dupuy, p. 179, 184. Raynouard, 197-199. De Vertis, liv. iii.

[170] Acta Rymeri, tom. iii. p. 130, 134, 139, 279-297, 321-327, 337, 409, 410. Dodsworth, MS. vol. xxxv. p. 65, 67.

[171] Acta Rymeri, tom. iii. p. 451, 454, 455, 457, 459-463, 956-959. Dugd. Monast. Angl. vol. vi. part 2, p. 809, 849, 850. Rolls of Parliament, vol. ii. p. 41. Concil. Mag. Brit. tom. ii. p. 499.

[172] Statutes at Large, vol. 9. Appendix, p. 23. Rolls of Parliament, vol. ii. p. 41, No. 52. Monast. Angl. p. 880.

[173] Acta Rymeri, tom. iii. p. 472. Concil. Mag. Brit. tom. ii. Walsingham, p. 99.

[174] Pat. 8, E. 2. m. 17. Ancient MS. account of the Temple, formerly the property of lord Somers, and afterwards of Nicholls, the celebrated antiquary. Acta Rymeri, tom. iii. p. 936, 940. Lel. coll. vol. i. p. 668. Rot. Escaet. 1, E. 3. Dugd. baron. vol. i. p. 777, 778.

[175] Acta Rymeri, tom. iv. p. 406, 464.

[176] Rot. Escaet. 10, E. 3, 66. Claus. 4, E. 3, p. 1, m. 10.

[177] Sunt etiam ibidem claustrum, capella Sancti Thomæ, et quædam platea terræ eidem capellæ annexata, cum una aula et camera supra edificata, quæ sunt loca sancta, et Deo dedicata, et dictæ ecclesiæ annexata, et eidem Priori per idem breve liberata.... Item dicunt, quod præter ista, sunt ibidem in custodia Wilielmi de Langford, infra Magnam Portam dicti Novi Templi, extra metas et disjunctiones prædictas una aula et quatuor cameræ, una coquina, unum gardinum, unum stabulum, et una camera ultra Magnam Portam prædictam, &c. In memorandis Scacc. inter recorda de Termino Sancti Hilarii. 11 E. 3, in officio Remembratoris Thesaurarii.

[178] Dugd. Monast. vol. vii. p. 810, 811. Ib. tom. vi. part 2, p. 832.

[179] Pat. 35 E. 3, p. 2, m 33.

[180] Prologue to the Canterbury Tales. The wages of the Manciples of the Temple, tomp. Henry VIII. were xxxvis. per annum. Bib. Cotton. Vitellius, c. 9, f. 320, a.

[181] Acta Rymeri, tom. iii. p. 292, 294, 331, 332.

[182] Thomas of Wothrope, at the trial of the Templars in England, was unable to give an account of the reception of some brethren into the order, quia erat panetarius et vacabat circa suum officium. Concil. Mag. Brit. tom. ii. p. 355. Ita appellabant officialem domesticum, qui mensæ panem, mappas et manutergia subministrabat. Ducange, Gloss. verb. Panetarius. Concil. Mag. Brit. tom. ii. p. 371-373. MS. Inner Temple Library, div. 9, shelf 5, vol. xvii. fol. 393.

[183] Dugd. Orig. Jurid. cap. xxxix. p. 102.

[184] Will. Tyr. lib. i. p. 50, lib. xii. p. 814. Dugd. Hist. Warwickshire, p. 704. Et tune Magister Templi dedit sibim antellum, et imposuit pileum capiti suo, et tune fecit eum sedere ad terram, injungens sibi, &c. Acta contra Templarios. Concil. Mag. Brit. tom. ii. p. 300. See also p. 335.

[185] Ex cod. MS. apud sub-thesaurarium Hosp. Medii Templi, f. 4, a. Dugd. Orig. Jurid. cap. 43, 46.

[186] Hargrave, MS. No. 19, 81, f. 5, fol. 46.

[187] For an account of the Temple Church and its antiquities, see Addison’s “Temple Church.”

Transcriber's note:

Every effort has been made to replicate this text as faithfully as possible, including inconsistencies in Arabic transcription. Some changes have been made. They are listed below.

References to footnotes [14] and [71] were missing in the original. They have been added.

The following is a list of changes made to the original. The first line is the original line, the second the corrected one.

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Henry II., king of England, visits the Temple at Paris
Henry III., king of England, visits the Temple at Paris

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but as cotemporary historians of Palestine, who describe the exploits
but as contemporary historians of Palestine, who describe the exploits

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themselves in various impregnable castles and strong holds,
themselves in various impregnable castles and strongholds,

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The crescent had been torn down by the crusders from the summit
The crescent had been torn down by the crusaders from the summit

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arranged by St Bernard, and sanctioned by the Holy Fathers
arranged by St. Bernard, and sanctioned by the Holy Fathers

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XLI. It is in no wise lawful for any of the brothers to receive
"XLI. It is in no wise lawful for any of the brothers to receive

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"LXVIII. Care must be taken that no brother, powerful or weak
"LXVIII. Care must be taken that no brother, powerful or weak,

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In such causes it is neither safe to slay nor to be slain."
In such causes it is neither safe to slay nor to be slain.

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and relate the wonderful things that are done in thee."
and relate the wonderful things that are done in thee.

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his minister and vicegerent, the famous Suger, abbot of St. Denis
his minister and vicegerent, the famous Suger, abbot of St. Denis:

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is of more avail than two two months of fasting and of prayer.
is of more avail than two months of fasting and of prayer.

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the vizier who conducted the ambassadors laid aside his scimetar,
the vizier who conducted the ambassadors laid aside his scimitar,

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had not put arms into their hands to make conquests; but the
had not put arms into their hands to make conquests;" but the

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On the death of Nourdedin, sultan of Damascus, (A. D. 1175,)
On the death of Noureddin, sultan of Damascus, (A. D. 1175,)

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In France the principal preceptories were at Besancon, Dole, Salins,
In France the principal preceptories were at Besançon, Dole, Salins,

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the immediate jnrisdiction of the Master of the Temple at Paris.
the immediate jurisdiction of the Master of the Temple at Paris.

Page 54 footnote:

Dudg. Monast. Angl. vol. vi. part 2, p. 800 to 817.
Dugd. Monast. Angl. vol. vi. part 2, p. 800 to 817.

Page 58 footnote:

Dug. Monast. Angl. p. 838.
Dugd. Monast. Angl. p. 838.

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better things, on pain of suspension and excommunication.
better things, on pain of suspension and excommunication."

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the royal penitent to fulfil his vow and and perform his penance;
the royal penitent to fulfil his vow and perform his penance;

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'No wonder.' sayde the patryarke, 'for of the deuyll they come,
'No wonder,' sayde the patryarke, 'for of the deuyll they come,

and returned in disgust and disappointment to the Holy Land
and returned in disgust and disappointment to the Holy Land.

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be became, through his gallant bearing and demeanour,
he became, through his gallant bearing and demeanour,

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now sweeping swifty across the landscape like the rainy clouds
now sweeping swiftly across the landscape like the rainy clouds

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every one of them excepting the Grand Master of the the Hospital,
every one of them excepting the Grand Master of the Hospital,

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and the blackened corses piled one upon another like the stones
and the blackened corpses piled one upon another like the stones

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The place surrrendered after a short siege; the fortifications
The place surrendered after a short siege; the fortifications

and on the spot were Abraham delivered the seven ewe lambs,
and on the spot where Abraham delivered the seven ewe lambs,

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He then descended from the pulpit, and prayed in the Mihrah.
He then descended from the pulpit, and prayed in the Mihrab.

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The Templars, manfully defended themselves, and their brethren
The Templars manfully defended themselves, and their brethren

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then to the centre, patiently enduring the severity of his pain.
then to the centre, patiently enduring the severity of his pain."

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to the summit of the castle of Taphnis, to dirct the Greek fire
to the summit of the castle of Taphnis, to direct the Greek fire

the structure near the water, threw out their grapling-irons,
the structure near the water, threw out their grappling-irons,

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employed by king Henry the Third in various important negociations.
employed by king Henry the Third in various important negotiations.

"This portion of the sacred edifice was of a lighter and more
This portion of the sacred edifice was of a lighter and more

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Henry II., king of England, visits the Temple at Paris
Henry III., king of England, visits the Temple at Paris

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and were extirminated in a bloody battle of two days' continuance.
and were exterminated in a bloody battle of two days' continuance.

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king Edward had borrowed of the Templars during his stay at Acre."
king Edward had borrowed of the Templars during his stay at Acre.

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The separate truces and treaties of peace which Bendocdor had
The separate truces and treaties of peace which Bendocdar had

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delares that the Templars had “un lieu creux ou cave en terre,
declares that the Templars had “un lieu creux ou cave en terre,

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que nous puissoms aver lez drettures de seinte eglise, comme
que nous puissoms aver lez drettures de seinte église, comme

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mischief was, he could not get the honey unless he burnt the bees.
mischief was, he could not get the honey unless he burnt the bees."

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fragments to be given in brotherly charity to the domestics,
fragments to be given in brotherly charity to the domestics,"

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It was brobably soon after this period that the Hospitallers
It was probably soon after this period that the Hospitallers

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"his beloved clerk," William de Langford," and farmed out the rents
"his beloved clerk," William de Langford, "and farmed out the rents