[84] They will be found in Campomanes, p. 80, and Münter, p. 424.
[85] The possessions of the Templars in England will be found in the works of Dugdale and Tanner.
[86] Magister, Maistre, is the almost invariable expression in the historians, the statutes of the order, and most documents. Magnus Magister was, however, early employed. Terricus, the Master of the order, thus styles himself when writing to Henry II. of England. The term Grand-Master is apt to convey erroneous ideas of pomp and magnificence to the minds of many readers.
[87] The Turcopoles were the offspring of a Turkish father, by a Christian mother; or also those who had been reared among the Turks, and had learned their mode of fighting. The Christians employed them as light cavalry; and the Templars had always a number of them in their pay.
[88] The Turcomans were, as their name denotes, born Turks. The Christians used them as guides on their expeditions.
[89] Le pas de chien. Münter (p. 66) declares his ignorance of where it lay. It was evidently the dangerous pass at the Nahr-el-Kelb, (Dog's River), near the sea, on the way to Antioch.
[90] Seneschal is one qui alterius vicem gerit. Charpentier Supplem. ad Dufresne Gloss. iii. p. 759.
[91] The Carroccio of the Italian republics.
[92] Sir W. Scott would probably find some difficulty in justifyin his making his Templar accept the combat à outrance at the "gentle and free passage of Ashby de la Zouche."
[93] It is not clear whether this is to be understood literally or metaphorically.