[457] Monast. Angl., vol. vi. part ii. p. 848.
[458] Pat. 4, E. 2, p. 2; m. 20. Dugdale, Hist. Warwickshire, vol. i. p. 962, ed. 1730.
[459] Dublin Review for May, 1841, p. 301.
[460] See ante, p. 80. On the 10th of March, before his departure from this country, Heraclius consecrated the church of the Hospitallers at Clerkenwell, and the altars of St. John and St. Mary. Ex registr. S. John Jerus. in Bib. Cotton, fol. 1.
[461] A fac-simile of this inscription was faithfully delineated by Mr. Geo. Holmes, the antiquary, and was published by Strype, A. D. 1670. The earliest copy I have been able to find of it is in a manuscript history of the Temple, in the Inner Temple library, supposed to have been written at the commencement of the reign of Charles the First by John Wilde, Esq., a bencher of the society, and Lent reader in the year 1630.
[462] Tempore quoque sub eodem (A. D. 1240) dedicata est nobilis ecclesia, structuræ aspectabilis Novi Templi Londinensis, præsente Rege et multis regni Magnatibus; qui eodem die, scilicet die Ascensionis, completis dedicationis solemniis, convivium in mensá nimis laute celebrarunt, sumptibus Hospitaliorum.—Matt. Par. ad ann. 1240, p. 526, ed. 1640.
[463] A large piscina, similar to the one in the Temple Church, may be seen in Cowling church, Kent. Archæologia, vol. xi. pl. xiv. p. 320.
[464] Ib. p. 347 to 359.
[465] Acta contra Templarios. Concil. Mag. Brit. tom. ii. p. 336, 350, 351.
[466] Jac. de Vitr. De Religione fratrum militiæ Templi, cap. 65.