[397] This knight had been tortured in the Temple at Paris, by the brothers of St. Dominic, in the presence of the grand inquisitor, and he made his confession when suffering on the rack; he afterwards revoked it, and was then tortured into a withdrawal of his revocation, notwithstanding which the inquisitor made the unhappy wretch, in common with others, put his signature to the following interrogatory, “Interrogatus utrum vi vel metu carceris aut tormentorum immiscuit in suâ depositione aliquam falsitatem, dicit quod non!”
[398] Acta contra Templarios.—Concil. Mag. Brit. tom. ii. p. 358-364.
[399] Concil. Mag. Brit. tom. ii. p. 364.
[400] Vobis, præfati vicecomites, mandamus quod illos, quos dicti prælati et inquisitores, seu aliquis eorum, cum uno saltem inquisitore, deputaverint ad supervidendum quod dicta custodia bene fiat, id supervidere; et corpora dictorum Templariorum in QUÆSTIONIBUS et aliis ad hoc convenientibus, ponere; et alia, quæ in hac parte secundum legem ecclesiasticam fuerint facienda, facere permittatis. Claus. 4, E. 2. m. 8. Acta Rymeri, tom. iii. p. 290.
[401] M. S. Bodl. F. 5, 2. Concil. p. 364, 365. Acta Rymeri, tom. iii. p. 228, 231, 232.
[402] Concil. Mag. Brit., tom. ii. p. 383-387.
[403] Concil. Mag. Brit., tom. ii. p. 388, 389.
[404] Acta fuerunt hæc die et loco prædictis, præsentibus patribus antedictis, et venerandæ discretionis viris magistris Michaele de Bercham, cancellario domini archiepiscopi Cantuar.... et me Ranulpho de Waltham, London, episcoporum notariis publicis.—Acta contra Templarios. Concil. Mag. Brit., tom. ii. p. 387, 388.
[405] Concil. Mag. Brit., tom. ii. p. 390, 391.
[406] Concil. Mag. Brit., tom. ii. p. 394-401.