Apparently there was a general expectation that the Hospitallers would share the fate of the Templars, and a disposition was manifested at once to pillage them, for Clement felt obliged, December 21, 1307, to issue a bull confirming all their privileges and immunities, and to send throughout Europe letters ordering them to be protected from all encroachments (Regest. Clem. PP. V. T. III. pp. 14, 17-18, 20-1, 273; T. IV. p. 418).
[305] Du Puy, pp. 12-13, 84-5, 89, 109, 111-12, 134.—D’Achery Spicileg. II. 199.—Raynouard, p. 238, 306.
Jean de S. Victor gives the date of the declaration of the University as the Saturday after Ascension (May 25, ap. Bouquet, XXI. 651), but Du Puy describes the document as sealed with fourteen seals, and dated on Lady Day (March 25).
[306] Archives Administratives de Reims, T. II. pp. 65, 66.—Chassaing Spicilegium Brivatense, pp. 274-5.—Du Puy, pp. 38-9, 85, 113, 116.—Contin. Nangiac. ann. 1308.—Joann. de S. Victor. (Bouquet, XXI. 650).—Raynouard, p. 42.
[307] Ptol. Lucens. Hist. Eccles. Lib. xxiv. (Muratori S. R. I. XI. 1229-30).—Joann. de S. Victor (Bouquet, XXI. 650).—Raynouard, pp. 44-5, 245-52.—Du Puy, pp. 13-14.—Schottmüller, op. cit. II. 13 sqq.—Bull. Faciens misericordiam, 12 Aug. 1308 (Rymer, II. 101.—Mag. Bull. Rom. IX. 136).
[308] Du Puy, pp. 15-17, 20, 39, 86, 107-8, 118-19, 121-22, 125.—Contin. Nangiac. ann. 1308.—Raynouard, pp. 46, 49.—Joann. de S. Victor (Bouquet, XXI. 651).—D’Achery Spicileg. II. 200.
Guillaume de Plaisian, who had been Philippe’s chief instrument in these transactions, received special marks of Clement’s favor by briefs dated August 5 (Regest. Clement. PP. V. T. III. pp. 216, 227).
[309] Bull. Faciens misericordiam.—Raynald. ann. 1309, No. 3.—Du Puy, pp. 64-5, 86-88, 127, 207-9.—Procès des Templiers I. 50-2.—Raynouard, p. 47.—Regest. Clement. PP. V. T. IV. pp. 433-4.
Clement appointed six curators in France to look after the property for the Holy See. By letters of January 5, 1309, he gave them an allowance from the Templar property of forty sous parisis of good money each for every night which they might have to spend away from home, at the same time cautioning them that they must not fraudulently leave their houses without necessity (Regest. T. IV. p. 439). A brief of January 28, 1310, transferring from the Bishop of Vaison to the canon, Gérard de Bussy, the custody of certain Templar houses, shows that Clement succeeded in obtaining possession of a portion (Ib. T. V. p. 56).
[310] Du Puy, pp. 33-4, 133.—Bull. Faciens misericordiam.—Procès, I. 34-5.