appears from _Mansi_ that this valuable old chronicle, formerly attributed
to Hugh Plagon, is the original French work of _Bernard the Treasurer_.
[185] Quand le roi avoit offert sa corone au Temple Dominus, si avaloit
uns degres qui sont dehors le Temple, et entroit en son pales au Temple de
Salomon, ou li Templiers manoient. La etoient les tables por mengier, ou
le roi s'asseoit, et si baron et tuit cil qui mengier voloient.--Contin.
bell. sacr. apud _Martene_, tom. v. col. 586.
[186] Contin. hist. ut sup., col. 593, 4. _Bernard. Thesaur._ apud
_Muratori_ script. rer. Ital., tom. vii. cap. 147, col. 782, cap. 148,
col. 173. Assizes de Jerusalem, cap. 287, 288. _Guill. Neubr._ cap. 16.
[187] Vita et res gestae Saladini by _Bohadin F. Sjeddadi_, apud
_Schultens_, ex. MS. Arab. Pref.
[188] Chron. terrae Sanctae apud _Martene_, tom. v. col. 551. Hist.
Hierosol. Gest. Dei, tom. i. pt. ii. p. 1150, 1. _Geoffrey de Vinisauf._
[189] Contin. hist. bell. sacr. ut sup., col. 599.
[190] _Muhammed F. Muhammed_, _N. Koreisg. Ispahan_, apud _Schultens_, p.
18.
[191] _Radulph Coggleshale_, an eye-witness, apud _Martene_, tom. v. col.
553.
[192] Chron. Terrae Sanctae, apud _Martene_, tom. v. col. 558 and 545. A
most valuable history.
[193] _Omad'eddin Kateb-Abou-hamed-Mohamed-Benhamed_, one of Saladin's
secretaries. Extraits Arabes, par _M. Michaud_.
[194] Contin. hist. bell. sacr. apud _Martene_, tom. v. col. 608.
_Bernard. Thesaur._ apud _Muratori_ script. rer. Ital., cap. 46. col. 791.
[195] _Bohadin_, cap. 35. _Abulfeda._ _Abulpharag._
[196] _Omad'eddin Kateb_, in his book called _Fatah_, celebrates the above
exploits of Saladin. Extraits Arabes, _Michaud_. _Radulph Coggleshale_,
Chron. Terr. Sanct. apud _Martene_, tom. v. col. 553 to 559. _Bohadin_, p.
70. _Jac. de Vitr._ cap. xciv. _Guil. Neubr._ apud Hearne, tom. i. lib.
iii. cap. 17, 18. _Chron. Gervasii_, apud X. script. col. 1502.
_Abulfeda_, cap. 27. _Abulpharag._ Chron. Syr. p. 399, 401, 402.
_Khondemir._ _Ben-Schunah._
[197] _Geoffrey de Vinisauf_ apud _Gale_, script. Antiq. Anglic. p. 15, "O
zelus fidei! O fervor animi!" says that admiring historian, cap. xv. p.
251.
[198] _Geoffrey de Vinisauf_, ut sup. cap. v. p. 251.
[199] Epistola Terrici Praeceptoris Templi de captione terrae
Jerosolymitanae, _Hoveden_ annal. apud rer. Angl. script. post Bedam, p.
636, 637. _Chron. Gervas._ ib. col. 1502. _Radulph de Diceto_, apud X.
script. col. 635.
[200] Saladin's letter to the caliph _Nassir Deldin-Illah Aboul Abbas
Ahmed_.--_Michaud_, Extraits Arabes.
[201] Les dames de Jerusalem firent prendre _cuves_ et mettre en la place
devant le monte Cauviaire, et emplir _d'eue froide_, et firent lors filles
entrer jusqu'au col, et couper lor treices et jeter les.--Contin. hist.
bell. sacr. apud _Martene_, tom. v. col. 615.
[202] Chron. Terrae Sanctae, _Radulphi Coggeshale_, apud _Martene_, tom. v.
col. 572, 573; flentibus christianis, crines et vestes rumpentibus,
pectora et capita tundentibus, says the worthy abbot.
[203] See ante, p. 6.
[204] Saladin ot mande a Damas por eue rose asses por le Temple laver ...
il avoit quatre chamiex ou cinq tous chargies.--Contin. hist. Bell. Sacr.
col. 621.
[205] Bohadin, cap. xxxvi., and the extracts from _Abulfeda_, apud
_Schultens_, cap. xxvii. p. 42, 43. _Ib'n Alatsyr_, Michaud, Extraits
Arabes.
[206] _Hoveden_, annal. apud rer. Angl. script. post Bedam, p. 645, 646.
[207] _Bohadin_ apud _Schultens_, cap. xxxvi.
[208] _Ibn-Alatsyr_, hist. Arab. and the _Raoudhatein_, or "the two
gardens." _Michaud_, Extraits Arabes. Excerpta ex _Abulfeda_ apud
_Schultens_, cap. xxvii. p. 43. _Wilken_ Comment. Abulfed. hist. p. 148.
[209] Omad'eddin Kateb.--_Michaud_, Extraits Arabes.
[210] _Khotbeh_, or sermon of _Mohammed Ben Zeky_.--_Michaud_, Extraits
Arabes.
[211] See the account of this remarkable stone, ante p. 7, 8.
[212] _Hist. Hierosol._ Gesta Dei per Francos, tom. i. pt. ii. p. 1155.
[213] _Hoveden_ ut sup. p. 646. _Schahab'eddin_ in the
Raoudhatein.--_Michaud._
[214] _Jac. de Vitr._ cap. xcv. _Vinisauf_, apud XV script. p. 257.
_Trivet_ ad ann. 1188, apud _Hall_, p. 93.
[215] _Radulph de Diceto_ ut sup. col. 642, 643. _Matt. Par._ ad ann.
1188.
[216] _Radulph Coggleshale_, p. 574. Hist. Hierosol. apud Gesta Dei, tom.
i. pars 2, p. 1165. _Radulph de Diceto_ ut sup., col. 649. _Vinisauf_,
cap. xxix. p. 270.
[217] _Ducange_ Gloss. tom. vi. p. 1036.
[218] _Geoffrey de Vinisauf_, apud XV script. cap. xxxv. p. 427. _Rad.
Coggleshale_ apud _Martene_, tom. v. col. 566, 567. _Bohadin_, cap. l. to
c.
[219] _Bohadin_, cap. v. vi.
[220] L'art de verif. tom. i. p. 297.
[221] Hist. de la maison de Sable, 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. p. 347.
[222] _Jac. de Vitr._ cap. 65.
[223] Le roi de France ot le chastel d'Acre, ot le fist garnir et le roi
d'Angleterre se herberja en la maison du Temple.--Contin. Hist. bell.
sacr. apud _Martene_, tom. v. col. 634.
[224] _Chron. Ottonis_ a S. Blazio, c. 36. apud Scriptores Italicos, tom.
vi. col. 892.
[225] _Contin. Hist. bell. sacr._ apud Martene, tom. v. col. 633.
_Trivet_, ad. ann. 1191. _Chron. de S. Denis_, lib. ii. cap. 7.
_Vinisauf_, p. 328.
[226] Primariam aciem deducebant Templarii et ultimam Hospitalarii, quorum
utrique strenue agentes magnarum virtutum praetendebant
imaginem.--_Vinisauf_, cap. xii. p. 350.
[227] Ibi rex praeordinaverat quod die sequenti primam aciem ipse
deduceret, et quod Templarii extremae agminis agerent
custodiam.--_Vinisauf_, cap. xiv. p. 351.
[228] Deducendae extremae legioni praefuerant Templarii, qui tot equos ea die
Turcis irruentibus, a tergo amiserunt, quod fere desperati sunt.--Ib.
[229] _Bohadin_, cap. cxvi. p. 189.
[230] Singulis noctibus antequam dormituri cubarent, quidam ad hoc
deputatus voce magna clamaret fortiter in medio exercitu dicens, ADJUVA
SEPULCHRUM SANCTUM; ad hanc vocem clamabant universi eadem verba
repetentes, et manus suas cum lacrymis uberrimis tendentes in caelum, Dei
misericordiam postulantes et adjutorium.--_Vinisauf_, cap. xii. p. 351.
[231] Ibid. cap. xxxii. p. 369.
[232] _Bedewini_ horridi, fuligine obscuriores, pedites improbissimi,
arcus gestantes cum pharetris, et ancilia rotunda, gens quidem acerrima et
expedita.--_Vinisauf_, cap. xviii. p. 355.
[233] _Vinisauf_, cap. xxii. p. 360. _Bohadin_, cap. cxx.
[234] Expedite descenderunt (Templarii) ex equis suis, et dorsa singuli
dorsis sociorum habentes haerentia, facie versa in hostes, sese viriliter
defendere coeperunt. Ibi videri fuit pugnam acerrimam, ictus validissimos,
tinniunt galeae a percutientium collisione gladiorum, igneae exsiliunt
scintillae, crepitant arma tumultuantium, perstrepunt voces; Turci se
viriliter ingerunt, Templarii strenuissime defendunt.--Ib. cap. xxx. p.
366, 367.
[235] _Vinisauf_, cap. xxxii. p. 369.
[236] Ib. cap. xxxvii. p. 392. _Contin. Hist. Bell. Sacr._ apud _Martene_,
v. col. 638.
[237] _Vinisauf_, lib. v. cap. 1, p. 403. Ibid. lib. vi. cap. 2, p. 404.
[238] Ib. cap. iv. v. p. 406, 407, &c. &c.; cap. xi. p. 410; cap. xiv. p.
412. King Richard was the first to enter the town. Tunc rex per cocleam
quandam, quam forte prospexerat in domibus Templariorum solus primus
intravit villam.--_Vinisauf_, p. 413, 414.
[239] _Contin. Hist. Bell. Sacr._ apud _Martene_, tom. v. col. 641.
[240] Concessimus omne jus, omne dominium quod ad nos pertinet et
pertineat, omnem potestatem, omnes libertates et liberas consuetudines
quas regia potestas conferre potest. _Cart. Ric._ 1. ann. 5, regni sui.
[241] _Hispania Illustrata_, tom. iii. p. 59. _Hist. gen. de Languedoc_,
tom. iii. p. 409. Cotton, MS. Nero E. VI. 23. i.
[242] Castrum nostrum quod Peregrinorum dicitur, see the letter of the
Grand Master _Matt. Par._ p. 312, and _Jac. de Vitr._ lib. iii. apud Gest.
Dei, p. 1131.
[243] "Opus egregium," says _James of Vitry_, "ubi tot et tantas
effuderunt divitias, quod mirum est unde eas accipiunt."--_Hist. Orient._
lib. iii. apud Gest. Dei, tom. i. pars 9, p. 1131. _Martene_, tom. iii.
col. 288. Hist. capt. Damietae, apud Hist. Angl. script. XV. p. 437, 438,
where it is called Castrum Filii Dei.
[244] _Pococke_, Travels in the East, book i. chap. 15.
[245] _Dufresne_, Gloss. _Archives d'Arles._ Cotton, MS. Nero E. VI.
[246] Acta et Foedera _Rymeri_, tom. i. p. 134, ad. ann. 1203, ed. 1704.
[247] _Rigord_ in Gest. Philippi. Acta _Rymeri_, tom. i. p. 165, 173.
[248] Itinerarium regis Johannis, compiled from the grants and precepts of
that monarch, by _Thomas Duff Hardy_, published by the Record
Commissioners.
[249] Acta _Rymeri_, tom. i. p. 170, ad. ann. 1213.
[250] _Matt. Par._ ad. ann. 1213, p. 234, 236, 237. _Matt. Westr._ p. 271,
2. _Bib. Cotton._ Nero C. 2. Acta _Rymeri_, tom. i. p. 172, 173. King John
resided at Temple Ewell from the 7th to the 28th of May.
[251] Teste meipso apud Novum Templum London.... Acta _Rymeri_, tom. i. p.
105. ad. ann. 1214, ed. 1704.
[252] "Formam autem rei prolocutae inter nos et ipsos, scriptam et sigillo
nostro sigillatam ... in custodiam Templariorum commisimus."--_Literae
Regis sorori suae Reginae Berengariae_, ib. p. 194.
[253] Berengaria Dei gratia, quondam humilis Angliae Regina. Omnibus, &c.
salutem.... Hanc pecuniam solvet in domo Novi Templi London. Ib. p. 208,
209, ad. ann. 1215.
[254] _Matt. Par._ p. 253, ad. ann. 1215.
[255] _Monast. Angl._ vol. vi. part ii.
[256] Ital. et Raven. Historiarum _Hieronymi Rubei_, lib. vi. p. 380, 381,
ad ann. 1217. ed. Ven. 1603.
[257] _Jac. de Vitr._ lib. iii. ad. ann. 1218. Gesta Dei, tom. i. 1, pars
2, p. 1133, 4, 5.
[258] _Gall. Christ. nov._ tom. ii. col. 714, tom. vii. col. 229.
[259] _Jac. de Vitr._ Hist. Orient. ut sup. p. 1138. Bernard Thesaur. apud
Muratori, cap. 190 to 200.
[260] Epist. Magni Magistri Templi apud Matt. Par. p. 312, 313.
[261] Our historian, James de Vitry; he subsequently became one of the
hostages. Contin. Hist. apud _Martene_, tom. v. col. 698.
[262] Matt. Par. ad ann. 1222, p. 314. See also another letter, p. 313.
[263] Actum London in domo Militiae Templi, II. kal. Octob. _Acta Rymeri_,
tom. i. p. 234, ad ann. 1219.
[264] _Acta Rymeri_, tom. i. ad ann. 1223, p. 258.
[265] Mittimus ad vos dilect. nobis in Christo, fratrem Alanum Marcell
Magistrum militiae Templi in Anglia, &c. ... Teste meipso apud Novum
Templum London coram Domino Cantuar--archiepiscopo, Huberto de Burgo
justitiario et J. Bath--Sarum episcopis. _Acta Rymeri_, tom. i. p. 270, ad
ann. 1224.
[266] Ib. p. 275.
[267] Ib. p. 311, 373, 380.
[268] Sanut, lib. iii. c. x. p. 210.
[269] _Cotton_, MS. Nero E. VI. p. 60. fol. 466. Nero E. VI. 23. i.
[270] Cecidit autem in illo infausto certamine illustris miles Templarius,
Anglicus natione, Reginaldus de Argentomio, ea die Balcanifer; ...
indefessus vero vexillum sustinebat, donec tibiae cum cruribus et manibus
frangerentur. Solus quoque eorum Preceptor priusquam trucidaretur,
sexdecim hostium ad inferos destinavit.--_Matt. Par._ p. 443, ad ann.
1237.
[271] A _Clerkenwelle_ domo sua, quae est Londoniis, per medium civitatis,
clypeis circiter triginta detectis, hastis elevatis, et praevio vexillo,
versus pontem, ut ab omnibus videntibus, benedictionem obtinerent,
perrexerunt eleganter. Fratres vero inclinatis capitibus, hinc et inde
caputiis depositis, se omnium precibus commendaverunt.--_Matt. Par._ p.
443, 444.
[272] Et eodem anno (1239) ... passi sunt Judaei exterminium magnum et
destructionem, eosdem arctante et incarcerante, et pecuniam ab eisdem
extorquente Galfrido Templario, Regis speciali consiliario.--_Matt. Par._
p. 489, ad ann. 1239.
[273] In ipsa ira aufugavit fratrem Rogerum Templarium ab officio
eleemosynariae, et a curia jussit elongari.--Ib.
[274] _Rymer_, tom. i. p. 404.
[275] Post.
[276] _Matt. Par._ p. 615.
[277] _Michaud_ Extraits Arabes, p. 549.
[278] _Steph. Baluz_. Miscell., lib. vi. p. 357.
[279] _Marin Sanut_, p. 217.
[280] _Matt. Par._ p. 631 to 633, ad ann. 1244. Huic scripto originali,
quod erat hujus exemplum, appensa fuerunt duodecim sigilla.
[281] _Matt. Par._ p. 618-620.
[282] Cotton MS. Nero E. VI. p. 60, fol. 466, vir discretus et
circumspectus; in negotiis quoque bellicis peritus.
[283] Hospitalarii et Templarii milites neophitos et manum armatam cum
thesauro non modico illuc ad consolationem et auxilium ibi commorantium
festinanter transmiserunt. Epist. Pap. Innocent IV.
[284] _Matt. Par._ p. 697, 698.
[285] Literae Soldani Babyloniae ad Papam missae, a quodam Cardinali ex
Arabico translatae.--_Matt. Par._ p. 711.
[286] Ibid. p. 733.
[287] _Matt. Par._ p. 735.
[288] Ib. in additamentis, p. 168, 169.
[289] Quant les Templiers virent-ce, il se penserent que il seroient
honniz se il lessoient le Compte d'Artois aler devant eulz; si ferirent
des esperons qui plus plus, et qui miex miex, et chasserent les Turcs.
Hist. de San Louis par _Jehan Sire de Joinville_, p. 47.
[290] Nec evasit de tota illa gloriosa militia nisi duo Templarii.--_Matt.
Par._ ad ann. 1250. Chron. _Nangis_, p. 790.
[291] Et a celle bataille frere Guillaume le Mestre du Temple perdi l'un
des yex, et l'autre avoit il perdu le jour de quaresm pernant, et en fu
mort ledit seigneur, que Dieux absoille.--_Joinville_, p. 58.
[292] Et sachez que il avoit bien un journel de terre dariere les
Templiers, qui estoit si charge de pyles que les Sarrazins leur avoient
lanciees, que il n'i paroit point de terre pour la grant foison de
pyles.--Ib.
[293] _Joinville_, p. 95, 96.
[294] Acta _Rymeri_, tom. i. p. 474, ad ann. 1252.
[295] _Matt. Par._ ad ann. 1254, p. 899, 900.
[296] ... Mandatum est Johanni de Eynfort, camerario regis London, quod
sine dilatione capiat quatuor dolia boni vini, et ea liberet Johanni de
Suwerk, ponenda in cellaria Novi Templi London. ad opus nuntiorum
ipsorum.--Acta _Rymeri_, tom. i. p. 557, ad ann. 1255.
[297] Et mandatum est Ricardo de Muntfichet, custodi forestae Regis Essex,
quod eadem foresta sine dilatione capiat X. damos, et eos usque ad Novum
Templum London cariari faciat, liberandos praedicto Johanni, ad opus
praedictorum nuntiorum.--_Ib._
[298] Acta _Rymeri_, p. 557, 558.
[299] MCCLVI. morut frere Renaut de Vichieres Maistre du Temple. Apres lui
fu fait Maistre frere Thomas Berard.--Contin. hist. apud _Martene_, tom.
v. col. 736.
[300] Acta _Rymeri_, tom. i. p. 698, 699, 700.
[301] Acta _Rymeri_, tom. i. p. 730, 878, 879, ad ann. 1261.
[302] Furent mors et pris, et perdirent les Templiers tot lor hernois, et
le commandeor du Temple frere Matthieu le Sauvage.--Contin. hist. bell.
sacr. ut sup. col. 737. _Marin Sanut_, cap. 6.
[303] _Marin Sanut Torsell_, lib. iii. pars 12, cap. 6, 7, 8. Contin.
hist. bell. sacr. apud _Martene_, tom. v. col. 742. See also Abulfed.
Hist. Arab. apud Wilkens, p. 223. _De Guignes_, Hist. des Huns, tom. iv.
p. 141.
[304] _Michaud_, Extraits Arabes, p. 668.
[305] _De Vertot_, liv. iii. Preuve. xiii. See also epist. ccccii. apud
_Martene_ thesaur. anec. tom. ii. col. 422.
[306] Facta est civitas tam famosa quasi solitudo deserti.--_Marin Sanut_,
lib. iii. pars. 12, cap. 9. _De Guignes_, Hist. des Huns, tom. iv. p. 143.
Contin. Hist. apud _Martene_, tom. v. col. 743. _Abulpharag._ Chron. Syr.
p. 546. _Michaud_, Extraits Arabes, p. 681.
[307] _Marin Sanut_ ut sup. cap. 11, 12. Contin. Hist. apud _Martene_,
col. 745, 746.
[308] En testimoniaunce de la queu chose, a ceo testament avons fet mettre
nostre sel, et avoms pries les honurables Bers frere Hue, Mestre de
l'Hospital, et frere Thomas Berard, Mestre du Temple, ke a cest escrit
meisent ausi lur seus, etc. Acta _Rymeri_, tom. i. p. 885, 886, ad ann.
1272.
[309] Trivet ad ann. 1272. Walsingham, p. 43. Acta _Rymeri_, tom. i. p.
889, ad ann. 1272, tom. ii. p. 2.
[310] Monast. Angl., vol. vi. part 2, p. 800-844.
[311] MCCLXXIII. a viii. jors d'Avri morut frere Thomas Berart, Maistre du
Temple le jor de la notre dame de Mars, et fu fait Maistre a xiii. jors de
May, frere Guillaume de Bieaujeu qui estoit outre _Commendeor_ du Temple
en Pouille, et alerent por lui querire frere Guillaume de Poucon, qui
avait tenu lieu de Maistre, et frere Bertrand de Fox; et frere Gonfiere fu
fait _Commandeor_ gran tenant lieu de Maistre.--Contin. Hist. apud
_Martene_, tom. v. col. 746, 747. This is the earliest instance I have met
with of the application of the term COMMANDER to the high officers of the
Temple.
[312] Acta _Rymeri_, tom. ii. p. 34, ad ann. 1274.
[313] Contin. hist. bell. sacr. apud _Martene_, tom. v. col. 748.
[314] Life of Malek Mansour Kelaoun. _Michaud_, Extraits Arabes, p. 685,
686, 687.
[315] De excidio urbis Aconis apud _Martene_ vet. script. tom. v. col.
767.
[316] The famous Abul-feda, prince of Hamah, surnamed Amod-ed-deen,
(Pillar of Religion,) the great historian and astronomer, superintended
the transportation of the military engines from Hasn-el-Akrah to St. Jean
d'Acre.
[317] Ex ipsis fratrem monachum Gaudini elegerunt ministrum generalem. De
excidio urbis Acconis apud _Martene_, tom. v. col. 782.
[318] Videntes pulchros Francorum filios ac filias, manus his
injecerunt.--_Abulfarag_, Chron. Syr. p. 595. Maledicti Saraceni mulieres
et pueros ad loca domus secretiora ex eisdem abusuri distrahere
conabantur, turpibus ecclesiam obscoenitatibus cum nihil possent aliud
maculantes. Quod videntes christiani, clausis portis, in perfidos
viriliter irruerunt, et omnes a minimo usque ad maximum occiderunt, muros,
turres, atque portas Templi munientes ad defensam.--De excid. Acconis ut
sup. col. 782. _Marin Sanut_ ut sup. cap. xxii. p. 231.
[319] Per totam noctem illam, dum fideles vigilarent contra perfidorum
astutiam, domum contra eos defensuri, fratrum adjutorio de thesauris quod
potuit cum sacrosanctis reliquiis ecclesiae Templi, ad mare salubriter
deportavit. Inde quidem cum fratribus paucis auspicato remigio, in Cyprum
cum cautela transfretavit.--De excid. Acconis, col. 782.
[320] De excidio urbis Acconis apud _Martene_, tom. v. col. 757. _De
Guignes_, Hist. des Huns, tom. iv. p. 162. _Michaud_, Extraits Arabes, p.
762, 808. Abulfarag. Chron. Syr. p. 595. Wilkens, Comment. Abulfed. Hist.
p. 231-234. _Marin. Sanut Torsell_, lib. iii. pars 12, cap. 21.
[321] _Raynald_, tom. xiv. ad ann. 1298. Cotton MS. Nero E. vi. p. 60.
fol. 466.
[322] _Marin Sanut Torsell._ lib. iii. pars. 13, cap. x. p. 242. _De
Guignes_, Hist. des Huns, tom. iv. p. 184.
[323] Acta _Rymeri_, tom. i. p. 575, 576-579, 582, tom. ii. p. 250.
_Martene_, vet. script. tom. vii. col. 156.
[324] Acta _Rymeri_, tom. ii. p. 683. ad ann. 1295.
[325] Chron. _Dunmow_. Annals of _St. Augustin_. _Rapin._
[326] Ipse vero Rex et Petrus thesaurum ipsius episcopi, apud Novum
Templum Londoniis reconditum, ceperunt, ad summam quinquaginta millia
librarum argenti, praeteraurum multum, jocalia et lapides preciosos....
Erant enim ambo praesentes, cum cistae frangerentur, et adhuc non erat
sepultum corpus patris sui.--_Hemingford_, p. 244.
[327] Chron. _Triveti_, ad ann. 1298. _Hemingford_, vol. i. p. 159.
[328] _Dante_ styles him _il mal di Francia_, Del. Purgat. cant. 20, 91.
[329] Questo Papa fue huomo molto cupido di moneta, e fue lusurioso, si
dicea che tenea per amica la contessa di Paragordo, bellissima donna!!
_Villani_, lib. ix. cap. 58. Fuit nimis cupiditatibus deditus.... Sanct.
Ant. Flor. de Concil. Vien. tit. 21. sec. 3. Circa thesauros colligendos
insudavit, says _Knighton_ apud X script. col. 2494. _Fleuri_, l. 92. p.
239. _Chron. de Namgis_, ad ann. 1305.
[330] _Rainald._ tom. xv. ad ann. 1306, n. 12. _Fleuri_, Hist. Eccles.
tom. xix. p. 111.
[331] _Bal. Pap. Aven._ tom. ii. p. 176.
[332] _Bal. Pap. Aven._ tom. i. p. 99. Sexta Vita, Clem. V. apud _Baluz_,
tom. i. col. 100.
[333] Hist. de la Condemnation des Templiers.--_Dupuy_, tom. ii. p. 309.
[334] _Mariana_ Hispan. Illustr. tom. iii. p. 152. _Le Gendre_ Hist. de
France, tom. ii. p. 499.
[335] Acta _Rymeri_, tom. iii. p. 18. ad ann. 1307.
[336] Les forfaits pourquoi les Templiers furent ars et condamnez, pris et
contre eux approuvez. _Chron. S. Denis._ Sexta vita, Clem. V. _Dupuy_, p.
24. edition de 1713.
[337] Liv. ii. chap. 106, chez _Dupuy_.
[338] Sexta vita, Clem. V. col. 102.
[339] Ostendens duo ossa quod dicebat illa esse quae ceciderunt de talis
suis. _Processus contra Templarios._ _Raynouard_ Monumens Historiques, p.
73, ed. 1813.
[340] In quibus tormentis dicebat se quatuor dentes perdidisse. Ib. p. 35.
[341] Fuit quaestionibus ponderibus appensis in genitalibus, et in aliis
membris usque ad exanimationem. Ib.
[342] Tres des Chart. TEMPLIERS, cart. 3, _n._ 20.
[343] Dat. apud Redyng, 4 die Decembris. Consimiles litterae diriguntur
Ferando regi Castillae et Ligionis, consanguineo regis, domino Karolo, regi
Siciliae, et Jacobo regi Aragoniae, amico Regis. Acta _Rymeri_, tom. iii. ad
ann. 1307, p. 35, 36.
[344] Acta _Rymeri_, tom. iii. p. 37, ad ann. 1307.
[345] Dat. Pictavis 10, kal. Dec. Acta _Rymeri_, tom. iii. ad ann. 1307,
p. 30-32.
[346] Acta _Rymeri_, tom. iii. p. 34, 35, ad ann. 1307.
[347] Ibid. p. 34, 35.
[348] Ibid. p. 45.
[349] _Knyghton_, apud X. script. col. 2494, 2531.
[350] Acta _Rymeri_, tom. iii. p. 83.
[351] Acta _Rymeri_, tom. iii. p. 101, 2, 3.
[352] Acta _Rymeri_, tom. iii. p. 110, 111. _Vitae paparum Avenion_, tom.
ii. p. 107.
[353] Ibid. tom. iii. p. 121, 122.
[354] Ibid. p. 168.
[355] Ibid. p. 168, 169.
[356] Ibid. p. 174.
[357] Acta _Rymeri_, tom. iii. p. 173, 175.
[358] _Rainald_, tom. xv. ad ann. 1306.
[359] Concil. Mag. Brit. tom. ii. p. 346, 347.
[360] Acta _Rymeri_, tom. iii. p. 178, 179.
[361] Concil. Mag. Brit. tom. ii. p. 304-311.
[362] _Processus contra Templarios_, _Dugd._ Monast. Angl. vol. vi. part
2, p. 844-846 ed. 1830.
[363] 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 Magnae Britanniae,
tom. ii. p. 329-401, and by _Dugdale_, in the Monast. Angl. vol. vi. part
2. p. 844-848.
[364] Actum in Capella infirmariae prioratus Sanctae Trinitatis praesentibus,
etc. Concilia Magnae Britanniae, tom. iii. p. 344. Ibid. p. 334-343.
[365] _Concil. Mag. Brit._, tom. ii. p. 305-308.
[366] _Concil. Mag. Brit._, tom. ii. p. 312-314.
[367] _Acta Rymeri_, tom. iii. p. 194, 195.
[368] Ibid. p. 182.
[369] Et ad evidentius praemissorum testimonium reverendus in Christo pater
dominus Willielmus, providentia divina S. Andreae episcopus, et magister
Johannes de Solerio praedicti sigilla sua praesenti inquisitioni
appenderunt, et eisdem sigillis post subscriptionem meam eandem
inquisitionem clauserunt. In quorum etiam firmius testimonium ego
Willielmus de Spottiswod auctoritate imperiali notarius qui praedictae
inquisitioni interfui die, anno, et loco praedictis, testibus praesentibus
supra dictis, signum meum solitum eidem apposui requisitus, et propria
manu scripsi rogatus.--_Acta contra Templarios._ _Concil. Mag. Brit._,
tom. ii. p. 380, 383.
[370] Act. in ecclesia parochiali S. Dunstani prope Novum Templum.--Ib.,
p. 349.
[371] _Acta contra Templarios._ _Concil. Mag. Brit._, tom. ii. p. 350,
351, 352.
[372] Acta _Rymeri_, tom. iii. ad ann. 1310. p. 202, 203.
[373] Acta _Rymeri_, tom. iii. p. 179, 180. _Concil. Mag. Brit._, tom. ii.
p. 373 to 380.
[374] Terrore tormentorum confessi sunt et _mentiti_.--_Concil. Mag.
Brit._, tom. ii. p. 365, 366, 367.
[375] Depositiones Templariorum in Provincia Eboracensi.--_Concil. Mag.
Brit._, tom. ii. p. 371-373.
[376] Eodem anno (1310) XIX. die Maii apud Eborum in ecclesia cathedrali,
ex mandato speciali Domini Papae, tenuit dominus Archiepiscopus concilium
provinciale. Praedicavitque et erat suum thema; _omnes isti congregati
venerunt tibi_, factoque sermone, recitavit et legi fecit _sequentem
bullam horribilem contra Templarios_, &c. &c. _Hemingford_ apud _Hearne_,
vol. i. p. 249.
[377] Processus observatus in concilio provinciali Eboracensi in ecclesia
beati Petri Ebor. contra Templarios celebrato A. D. 1310, ex. reg. Will.
Grenefeld Archiepiscopi Eborum, fol. 179, p. 1.--_Concil. Mag. Brit._,
tom. ii. p. 393.
[378] _Concil. Mag. Brit._, tom. ii. p. 367.
[379] _Acta contra Templarios._ _Concil. Mag. Brit._, tom. ii. p. 358.
[380] _Joan. can. Sanct. Vict._ Contin. de _Nangis_ ad ann. 1310. Ex
secunda vita _Clem._ V. p. 37.
[381] Chron. _Cornel. Zanfliet_, apud _Martene_, tom. v. col. 159.
_Bocat._ de cas. vir. illustr. lib. 9. chap. xxi. _Raynouard_, Monumens
historiques. _Dupuy_, Condemnation des Templiers.
[382] Vit. prim. et tert. Clem. V. col. 57, 17. _Bern. Guac._ apud
_Muratori_, tom. iii. p. 676. Contin. Chron. de _Nangis_ ad ann. 1310.
_Raynouard_, p. 120.
[383] _Raynouard_, p. 155.
[384] Inhibuisti ne contra ipsas personas et ordinem per _quaestiones_ ad
inquirendum super eisdem criminibus procedatur, quamvis iidem Templarii
diffiteri dicuntur super eisdem articulis veritatem.... Attende, quaesumus,
fili carissime, et prudenti deliberatione considera, si hoc tuo honori et
saluti conveniat, et statui congruat regni tui. Arch. secret. Vatican.
Registr. literar. curiae anno 5 domini Clementis Papae 5.--_Raynouard_, p.
152.
[385] Acta _Rymeri_, tom. iii. ad ann. 1310, p. 224.
[386] Ib., p. 224, 225. claus. 4. E. 2. M. 22.
[387] Et si per hujusmodi arctationes et separationes nihil aliud, quam
prius, vellent confiteri, quod extunc _quaestionarentur_; ita quod
_quaestiones_ illae fierent ABSQUE MUTILATIONE ET DEBILITATIONE PERPETUA
ALICUJUS MEMBRI, ET SINE VIOLENTA SANGUINIS EFFUSIONE.--_Concil. Mag.
Brit._, tom. ii. p. 314.
[388] Acta _Rymeri_, tom. iii. p. 227, 228.
[389] Cum nuper, OB REVERIENTIAM SEDIS APOSTOLICAE, concessimus praelatis et
inquisitoribus ad inquirendum contra ordinem Templariorum, et contra
Magnum Praeceptorem ejusdem ordinis in regno nostro Angliae, quod iidem
praelati et inquisitores, de ipsis Templariis et eorum corporibus IN
QUAESTIONIBUS, et aliis ad hoc convenientibus ordinent et faciant, quoties
voluerint, id quod eis secundum legem ecclesiasticam, videbitur faciendum,
&c.--Teste rege apud Linliscu in Scotia, 23 die Octobris. Ibid. tom. iii.
p. 228, 229.
[390] Acta _Rymeri_, tom. iii. p. 229.
[391] Ibid. p. 230.
[392] Acta _Rymeri_, tom. iii. p. 231.
[393] Ibid. p. 231, 232.
[394] Ibid. tom. iii. p. 232-235.
[395] _Acta contra Templarios, Concil. Mag. Brit._ tom. ii. p. 368-371.
[396] Suspicio (quae loco testis 21, in MS. allegatur,) probare videtur,
quod omnes examinati in aliquo dejeraverunt (pejeraverunt,) ut ex
inspectione processuum apparet.--MS. Bodl. Oxon. f. 5. 2. _Concil._ tom.
ii. p. 359.
[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 sua 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, praefati vicecomites, mandamus quod illos, quos dicti praelati
et inquisitores, seu aliquis eorum, cum uno saltem inquisitore,
deputaverint ad supervidendum quod dicta custodia bene fiat, id
supervidere; et corpora dictorum Templariorum in QUAESTIONIBUS et aliis ad
hoc convenientibus, ponere; et alia, quae 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 haec die et loco praedictis, praesentibus patribus
antedictis, et venerandae 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.
[407] _Concilia Hispaniae_, tom. v. p. 233. _Zurita_, lib. v. c. 73. 101.
_Mariana_, lib. xv. cap. 10. _Mutius_, chron. lib. xxii. p. 211.
_Raynouard_, p. 199-204.
[408] Ut det Templariis audientiam sive defensionem. In hac sententia
concordant omnes praelati Italiae praeter unum, Hispaniae, Theutoniae, Daniae,
Angliae, Scotiae, Hiberniae, etc. etc., ex secund. vit. Clem. V. p.
43.--_Rainald_ ad ann. 1311, n. 55. _Walsingham_, p. 99. _Antiq.
Britann._, p. 210.
[409] _Muratorii_ collect. tom. iii. p. 448; tom. x. col. 377. _Mariana._
tom. iii. p. 157. _Raynouard_, p. 191, 192.
[410] _Raynouard_ ut supra. Tertia vita Clem. V.
[411] Pro executoribus testamenti Wilielmi de la More, quondam Magistri
militiae Templi in Anglia, claus 6. E. 2. m. 15. Acta _Rymeri_, tom. iii.
p. 380.
[412] Registr. Hosp. S. Joh. Jerus. _Cotton_ MS. Nero E. vi. 23. i. Nero
E. vi. p. 60. fol. 466.
[413] _Lansdown_, MS. 207. E. vol. v. fol. 317.
[414] Ib., fol. 284.
[415] Ib., fol. 162, 163, 317.
[416] Ib., fol. 467.
[417] Ib., fol. 201.
[418] Acta _Rymeri_, tom. i. p. 134, ad ann. 1203. He was one of those who
advised king John to sign Magna Charta.--_Matt. Par._, p. 253-255.
[419] Ib., p. 258, 270. _Matt. Par._, p. 314.
[420] Acta _Rymeri_, tom. i. p. 342, 344, 345. He was employed to
negotiate a marriage between king Henry the Third and the fair Eleanor of
Provence.
[421] _Matt. Par._, p. 615, et in additamentis, p. 480.
[422] _Concil. Mag. Brit._, tom. ii. p. 340.
[423] Ib., p. 339, 341, 344.
[424] Ib., p. 335, 343. _Prynne_, collect 3, 143.
[425] Acta _Rymeri_, tom. i. part iii. p. 104.
[426] In vilissimo carcere, ferro duplici constrictus, jussus est recludi,
et ibidem, donec aliud ordinatum extiterit, reservari; et interim
visitari, ad videndum si vellet _alterius aliqua confiteri_!--_Concil.
Mag. Brit._, tom. ii. p. 393.
[427] _Processus contra Templarios._ _Dupuy_, p. 128, 139. _Raynouard_, p.
60.
[428] _Villani_, lib. viii. cap. 92. Contin. Chron. de _Nangis_, ad ann.
1313. _Pap. Mass._ in Philip. pulchr. lib. iii. p. 393. _Mariana_ de reb.
Hisp. lib. xv. cap. 10. _Dupuy_, ed. 1700, p. 71. Chron. _Corn. Zanfliet_
apud _Martene_, tom. v. col. 160. _Raynouard_, p. 209, 210.
[429] Acta _Rymeri_, tom. iii. p. 323, 4, 5, ad ann. 1312.
[430] _Zurita_, lib. v. c. 101. Institut. milit. Christi apud _Henriquez_,
p. 534.
[431] Annales Minorum. Gall. Christ. nov. _Aventinus_, Annal. _De Vertot_,
liv. 3.
[432] _Fuller's_ Hist. Holy War, book v. ch. iii.
[433] _Dupuy_, p. 179, 184.
[434] Essai sur les moeurs, &c., tom. ii. p. 242.
[435] Nihil ad nos unquam pervenit nisi modica bona mobilia. Epist. ad
Philip, 2 non. May, 1309. _Raynouard_, p. 198. _De Vertot_, liv. iii.
[436] _Raynouard_, 197, 198, 199.
[437] The extents of the lands of the Templars are amongst the unarranged
records in the Queen's Remembrancer's office, and various sheriffs'
accounts are in the third chest in the Pipe Office.
[438] Acta _Rymeri_, tom. iii. p. 130, 134, 139, 279, 288, 290, 1, 2, 297,
321. _Dodsworth._ MS. vol. xxxv. p. 65, 67.
[439] Acta _Rymeri_, tom. iii. p. 292, 3, 4, 5.
[440] Ib. tom. iii. p. 299.
[441] Acta _Rymeri_, tom. iii. p. 303.
[442] Ib., tom. iii. p. 326, 327.
[443] Ib., tom. iii. p. 337.
[444] Cart. 6. E. 2. No. 4. 41.
[445] Acta _Rymeri_, tom. iii. p. 409, 410.
[446] Acta _Rymeri_, tom. iii. p. 451.
[447] Ib., p. 451, 454, 455, 457, 459-463. _Dugd. Monast. Angl._, vol. vi.
part 2. p. 809.
[448] Rolls of Parliament, vol. ii. p. 41.
[449] _Dugd. Monast. Angl._, vol. vi. part 2, p. 849, 850. _Concil. Mag.
Brit._, tom. ii. p. 499.
[450] Acta _Rymeri_, tom. iii. p. 956-959, ad ann. 1322.
[451] _Statutes at Large_, vol. ix. Appendix, p. 23.
[452] _Rolls of Parliament_, vol. ii. p. 41. No. 52.
[453] _Monast. Angl._, p. 810.
[454] Acta _Rymeri_, tom. iii. p. 472.
[455] _Concil. Mag. Brit._, tom. ii.
[456] _Walsingham_, p. 99.
[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,
structurae aspectabilis Novi Templi _Londinensis_, praesente Rege et multis
regni Magnatibus; qui eodem die, scilicet die Ascensionis, completis
dedicationis solemniis, convivium in mensa 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. _Archaeologia_, 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 militiae Templi, cap. 65.
[467] _Processus contra Templarios_, apud Dupuy, p. 65; ed. 1700.
[468] See the plan of this chapel and of the Temple Church, in the vetusta
monumenta of the Society of Antiquaries.
[469] Acta fuerunt haec in capella juxta ecclesiam, apud Novum Templum
London, ex parte Australi ipsius ecclesiae sita, coram reverendis patribus
domino archiepiscopo et episcopis, &c. &. Acta _Rymeri_, tom. ii. p. 193,
ad ann. 1282.
[470] Anecdotes and Traditions published by the _Camden_ Society. No.
clxxxi. p. 110.
[471] De tribus Capellanis inveniendis, apud Novum Templum, Londoniarum,
pro anima Regis Henrici Tertii. Ex regist. Hosp. S. Johannis Jerus. in
Anglia. Bib. Cotton, f. 25. a.
[472] Ibid. 30. b.
[473] _Acta contra Templarios._ Concil. Mag. Brit., tom. ii. p. 383.
[474] E registro mun. eviden. Prior. Hosp. Sanc. Joh. fol. 23, b.; fo. 24,
a.
[475] _Nicholls'_ Hist. Leicestershire, vol. iii. p. 960, note. _Malcolm_,
Londinium Redivivum, vol. ii. p. 294.
[476] _Burton's_ Leicestershire, p. 235, 236.
[477] Monumens de la monarchie Francoise, par _Montfaucon_, tom. ii. p.
184, plate p. 185. Hist. de la Maison de Dreux, p. 86, 276.
[478] _Ducange._ Gloss. tom. iii. p. 16, 17; ed. 1678, verb. _Oblati_.
[479] _Peck._ MS. vol. iv. p. 67.
[480] Plurimique nobiles apud eos humati fuerunt, quorum imagines visuntur
in hoc Templo, tibiis in crucem transversis (sic enim sepulti fuerunt
quotquot illo saeculo nomina bello sacro dedissent, vel qui ut tunc
temporis sunt locuti crucem suscepissent.) E quibus fuerunt Guilielmus
Pater, Guilielmus et Gilbertus ejus filii, omnes marescalli Angliae,
comitesque Pembrochiae.--_Camden's_ Britannia, p. 375.
[481] _Stow's_ Survey.
[482] MS. Inner Temple Library, No. 17. fol. 402.
[483] Origines Juridiciales, p. 173.
[484] _Nicholls'_ Leicestershire, vol. iii. p. 960.
[485] "In _porticu_ ante ostium ecclesiae occidentale." The word porticus,
which means "a walking place environed with pillars," exactly corresponds
with the external circular walk surrounding the round tower of the church.
[486] Some surprise has been expressed that the effigies of women should
be found in this curious position. It must be recollected, that women
frequently fought in the field during the Crusades, and were highly
applauded for so doing.
[487] _Hoveden_ apud rer. Anglicar. script. post Bedam, p. 488.
_Dugdale's_ Baronage, vol. i. p. 201. Lel. Coll. vol. i. 864.
[488] _Monast. Angl._, vol. i. p. 444 to 464.
[489] _Dugd._ Bar., vol. i. p. 202. _Selden_, tit. hon. p. 647.
[490] _Triveti_ annales apud Hall, p. 12, 13, ad ann. 1143. _Guill.
Neubr._ lib. i. cap. ii. p. 44, ad ann. 1143. _Hoveden_, p. 488, Hist.
Minor. Matt. Par. in bib. reg. apud S. Jacobum.
[491] _Henry Huntingdon_, lib. viii. Rer. Anglicar. script. post Bedam, p.
393. _Chron. Gervasii_, apud script. X. col. 1360. _Radulph de Diceto_,
ib. col. 508. Vir autem iste magnanimus, velut equus validus et infraenus,
maneria, villas, caeteraque, proprietatem regiam contingentes, invasit,
igni combussit, &c. &c. MS. in Bibl. Arund., A. D. 1647, a. 43. cap. ix.,
now in the Library of the Royal Society. _Annales Dunstaple_ apud Hearne,
tom. i. p. 25.
[492] Vasa autem altaris aurea et argentea Deo sacrata, capas etiam
cantorum lapidibus preciosis ac opere mirifico contextas, casulas cum
albis et caeteris ecclesiastici decoris ornamentis rapuit, &c. MS. ut sup.
Gest. reg. Steph. p. 693, 694.
[493] De vita scelerata et condigno interitu Gaufridi de
Magnavilla.--_Guill. Neubr._ lib. i. cap. xi. p. 44 to 46. Henry of
Huntingdon, who lived in king Stephen's reign, and kept up a
correspondence with the abbot of Ramsay, thus speaks of this wonderful
phenomenon, of which he declares himself an eye-witness. Dum autem
ecclesia illa pro castello teneretur, ebullivit sanguis a parietibus
ecclesiae et claustri adjacentis, indignationem divinam manifestans;
sceleratorum exterminationem denuntians, quod quidem multi viderant, et
_ego ipse quidem meis oculis inspexi_! _Script. post Bedam._ lib. viii. p.
393, ed. 1601, Francfort. Hoveden, who wrote shortly after, has copied
this account. Annales, ib. p. 488.
[494] _Guill. Neubr._ ut supr. p. 45, 46. Chron. _Gervasii_, apud X.
script. col. 1360. _Annal. S. Augustin._ _Trivet_ ad ann. 1144, p. 14.
_Chron. Brompton_, col. 1033. _Hoveden_, ut supr. p. 488.
[495] Grew mad with much anger.
[496] Peter Langtoft's Chronicle, vol. i. 123, by Robert of Brunne,
translated from a MS. in the Inner Temple Library, Oxon. 1725.
[497] In pomoerio suo veteris, scilicet Templi apud London, canali
inclusum plumbeo, in arbore torva suspenderant. _Antient MS. de fundatione
coenobii Sancti Jacobi de Waldena_, fol. 43, a. cap. ix. no. 51, in the
Library of the Royal Society.
[498] Cumque Prior ille, corpus defunctum deponere, et secum Waldenam
transferre satageret, Templarii caute premeditati, statim illud tollentes,
in cimiterio Novi Templi ignobili satis tradiderunt sepulturae.--Ib.
[499] A. D. MCLXIIII, sexto kal. Octobris, obiit Galfridus de Mandeuil,
comes Essexiae, fundator primus hujus monasterii de Walden, cujus corpus
jacet Londoniis humatum, apud Temple-bar _in porticu ante ostium ecclesiae
occidentale_. MS. in the library of the Royal Society, marked No. 29,
entitled _Liber de fundatione Sancti Jacobi Apostoli de Waldena_.
_Cotton_, MS. Vesp. E. vi. fol. 25.
[500] Hoveden speaks of him as a man of the highest probity, but
irreligious. Erat autem summae probitatis, sed summae in Deum obstinationis,
magnae in mundanis diligentiae, magnae in Deum negligentiae. _Hoveden_ ut
supra.
[501] It was a recess, hewn out of the chalk, of a bell shape and exactly
circular, thirty feet high and seventy feet in diameter. The sides of this
curious retreat were adorned with imagery in basso relievo of crucifixes,
saints, martyrs, and historical pieces, which the pious and eccentric lady
is supposed to have cut for her entertainment.--See the extraordinary
account of the discovery, in 1742, of the Lady Roisia's Cave at Royston,
published by _Dr. Stukeley_. Cambridge, 1795.
[502] _Camden's_ Britannia, ed. 1600, p. 375.
[503] Tradidit Willielmo Marescallo, familiari suo, crucem suam
Jerosolymam deferendam. _Hoveden_ ad ann. 1183, apud rer. Anglic. script.
post Bedam, p. 620.
[504] _Chron. Joan Brompton_, apud X. script. col. 1158. _Hoveden_, p.
655, 666.
[505] Selden's Tit. of Honour, p. 677.
[506] _Hoveden_, p. 659, 660. _Radulf de Diceto_, apud X. script. p. 659.
[507] _Matt. Par._, p. 196. _Hoveden_, p. 792. _Dugdale_ Baronage, tom. i.
p. 601.
[508] _Trivet_, p. 144. _Gul. Britt._, lib. vii. _Ann. Waverley_, p. 168.
[509] _Matt. Par._, p. 237.
[510] _Matt. Par._, p. 253-256, ad ann. 1215.
[511] See his eloquent address to the bishops and barons in behalf of the
young king.--_Hemingford_, lib. iii. cap. 1. p. 562, apud _Gale_ XV.
script.
[512] _Matt. Par._, p. 289, ad ann. 1216. Acta _Rymeri_, tom. i. p. 216.
[513] _Hemingford_, p. 565, 568. "These liberties, distinctly reduced to
writing, we send to you our faithful subjects, sealed with the seal of our
faithful William Marshall, earl of Pembroke, the guardian of us and our
kingdom, because we have not as yet any seal." Acta _Rymeri_, tom. i. part
1. p. 146, ed. 1816. _Thomson_, on Magna Charta, p. 117, 130. All the
charters and letters patent were sealed with the seal of the earl
marshall, "Rectoris nostri et regni, eo quod _nondum sigillum habuimus_."
Acta _Rymeri_, tom. i. p. 224, ed. 1704.
[514] _Matt. Par._, p. 292-296.
[515] Matthew Paris bears witness to the great superiority of the English
sailors over the French even in those days.--Ibid. p. 298. _Trivet_, p.
167-169.
[516] Acta _Rymeri_, tom. i. p. 219, 221, 223.
[517] _Dugd._ Baronage, tom. i. p. 602, A. D. 1219. Willielmus senior,
mareschallus regis et rector regni, diem clausit extremum, et Londini apud
Novum Templum honorifice tumulatur, scilicet in ecclesia, in Ascensionis
die videlicet xvii. calendas Aprilis.--_Matt. Par._ p. 304. _Ann.
Dunstaple_, ad ann. 1219. _Ann. Waverley_.
[518] Miles strenuissimus et per universum orbem nominatissimus.--_Chron.
T. Wikes_ apud _Gale_, script. XV. p. 39.
[519] _Monast. Angl._, p. 833, 834, 837, 843.
[520] MS. Bib. Cotton. _Vitellius_, F. 4. _Monast. Angl._, tom. i. p. 728,
ed. 1655.
[521] _Matt. Par._, p. 182. ad ann. 1196.
[522] _Hoveden_ apud rer. Anglicar. script. post Bedam, p. 811.
[523] _Matt. Par._ p. 254, 262. _Lel._ col. vol. i. p. 362.
[524] Acta _Rymeri_, tom. i. p. 224, ad ann. 1217.
[525] _Dugd._ Baronage, vol. i. p. 545, 546.
[526] _Monast. Angl._, vol. vi. part ii. p. 838, 842.
[527] _Matt. Par._ p. 254, 256. _Lel. col._ vol. i. p. 841.
[528] _Matt. Par._ p. 317, ad ann. 1223.
[529] _Matt. Par._ p. 366. _Ann. Dunst._ p. 99. 134, 150.
[530] Eodem tempore, A. D. 1231, mense Aprili, Willielmus, Marescallus
comes Pembrochiae, in militia vir strenuus, in dolorem multorum, diem
clausit extremum, et Londoniis apud Novum Templum sepultus est, juxta
patrem suum, XVII calend. Maii. Rex autem qui eum indissolubiliter
dilexit, cum haec audivit, et cum vidisset, corpus defuncti palla
coopertum, ex alto trahens suspiria, ait, Heu, heu, mihi! nonne adhuc
penitus vindicatus est sanguis beati Thomae Martyris.--_Matt. Par._ p. 368.
[531] _Dugd._ Monast. Angl. ut sup. p. 820.
[532] Margaretam _puellam elegantissimam_ matrimonio sibi
copulaverat.--_Matt. Par._, p. 432, 404.
[533] _Matt. Par._ p. 483.
[534] Ib. p. 431, 483, 516, 524.
[535] In crastino autem delatum est corpus Londinum, fratre ipsius praevio,
cum tota sua familia comitante, juxta patrem suum et fratrem
tumulandum.--Ib. p. 565. ad ann. 1241.
[536] _Dugd._ Monast. Angl., p. 833.
[537] "Paucis ante evolutis annis, post mortem omnium suorum filiorum,
videlicet, quando dedicata est ecclesia Novi Templi, inventum est corpus
saepedicti comitis quod erat insutum corio taurino, integrum, putridum
tamen et prout videri potuit detestabile."--_Matt. Par._ p. 688. Surely
this must be an interpolation by some wag. The last of the Pembrokes died
A. D. 1245, whilst, according to Matthew Paris's own showing, the eastern
part of the church was consecrated A. D. 1240, p. 526.
[538] _Mill's_ Catalogues, p. 145. _Speed_, p. 551. _Sandford's_
Genealogies, p. 92, 93, 2nd edition.
[539] Ex Registr. Hosp. S. Joh. Jerus. in Anglia, in _Bib. Cotton_, fol.
25 a.
[540] Ib.
[541] _Nicolas_, Testamenta Vetusta, p. 6.
[542] P. 899, 900.
[543] Ante, p. 255.
[544] _Joan Sarisburiensis._ Polycrat. lib. vi. cap. 1.
[545] Acta _Rymeri_, tom. iii. p. 296, 297.
[546] Cart. vi. E. 2. n. 41. _Trivet._ cont., p. 4. _T. de la More_, p.
593.
[547] Pat. 8. E. 2. m. 17. The Temple is described therein as "de feodo
Thomae Comitis Lancastriae, et de honore Leicestrie."
[548] Processus contra comitem Lancastriae. Acta _Rymeri_, tom. iii. p.
936. _Lel._ coll. vol. i. p. 668. _La More, Walsingham._
[549] Cart. 15. E. II. m. 21. Acta _Rymeri_, tom. iii. p. 940.
[550] _Dugd._ Baron., vol. i. p. 777, 778.
[551] Rot. Escaet. 1. E. III.
[552] _H. Knyghton_, apud X. script. col. 2546. 7. _Lel._ Itin. vol. vi. p
86. _Walsingham_, 106.
[553] Claus. 4. E. III. m. 9. Acta _Rymeri_, tom. iv. p. 461.
[554] There was in those days an _escheator_ in each county, and in
various large towns: it was the duty of this officer to seize into the
king's hands all lands held _in capite_ of the crown, on receiving a writ
_De diem clausit extremum_, commanding him to assemble a jury to take
inquisition of the value of the lands, as to who was the next heir of the
deceased, the rents and services by which they were holden, &c. &c.
[555] Claus 3. E. III. m. 6. d. Acta _Rymeri_, tom. iv. p. 406.
[556] Claus. 4. E. III. m. 7. Acta _Rymeri_, tom. iv. p. 464.
[557] Pat. 6. E. III. p. 2. m. 22. in original, apud Rolls Garden ex parte
Remembr. Thesaur.
[558] Rot. Escaet. 10. E. 3. 66. Claus 11 E. 3. p. 1. m. 10.
[559] Sunt etiam ibidem claustrum, capella Sancti Thomae, et quaedam platea
terrae eidem capellae annexata, cum _una aula_ et camera supra edificata,
quae sunt loca sancta, et Deo dedicata, et dictae ecclesiae annexata, et
eidem Priori per idem breve liberata.... Item dicunt, quod praeter ista,
sunt ibidem in custodia Wilielmi de Langford infra Magnam Portam dicti
Novi Templi, _extra metas et disjunctiones praedictas_, una _aula_ et
quatuor camerae, una coquina, unum gardinum, unum stabulum, et una camera
ultra Magnam Portam praedictam, &c.
[560] In memorandis Scacc. inter recorda de Termino Sancti Hilarii, 11. E.
3. in officio Remembratoris Thesaurarii.
[561] Pat. 12. E. 3. p. 2. m. 22. _Dugd._ Monasticon, vol. vii. p. 810,
811.
[562] Ex registr. Sancti Johannis Jerus. fol. 141. a. _Dugd._ Monast.,
tom. vi. part 2, p. 832.
[563] Ibid. ad ann. 1341.
[564] Rex omnibus ad quos &c. salutem. Sciatis quod de gratia nostra
speciali, et pro bono servitio quod Rogerus Small nobis impendit et
impendat in futuro, concessimus ei officium _Janitoris Novi Templi_ London
Habend. &c. pro vita sua &c. pertinend. &c. omnia vada et feoda &c. eodem
modo qualia Robertus Fetyt defunct. Qui officium illud ex concessione
domini Edwardi nuper regis Angliae patris nostri habuit.... Teste meipso
apud Westm. 5 die Aprilis, anno regni nostri 35. Pat. 35. E. 3. p. 2. m.
33.
[565] Prologue to the Canterbury Tales. The wages of the Manciples of the
Temple, temp. Hen. VIII. were xxxvis. viiid. per annum. Bib. _Cotton._
Vitellius, c. 9. f. 320, a.
[566] Annal. Olim-Sanctae Mariae Ebor.
[567] _Walsing._ 4 Ric. 2. ad ann. 1381. Hist. p. 249, ed. 1603.
[568] Rot. claus 5. E. 2. m. 19. Acta _Rymeri_, tom. iii. p. 292, 293,
294.
[569] Unam robam per annum de secta liberorum servientium, et quinque
solidos per annum, et deserviat quamdiu poterit loco liberi servientis in
domo praedicta. Ib. m. 2. Acta _Rymeri_, tom. iii. p. 331, 332.
[570] Quolibet anno ad Natale Domini unum vetus indumentum de veteribus
indumentis fratrum, et quolibet die 2 denarios pro victu garcionis sui, et
5 solidos per annum per stipendiis ejusdem garcionis, sed idem garcio
deserviet in domo illa. Ib.
[571] 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. Tunc panetarius mittat comiti duos panes
atque vini sextarium.... Ita appellabant officialem domesticum, qui mensae
panem, mappas et manutergia subministrabat. _Ducange_, Gloss. verb.
panetarius.
[572] _Regula Templariorum_, cap. lxvii. ante p. 25.
[573] _Concil. Mag. Brit._, tom. ii. p. 371 to 373, ante, p. 235.
[574] _Dugd._ Orig. Jurid., p. 212.
[575] Nullus clericus nisi causidicus. Will. Malm., lib. iv. f. 69.
_Radulph de Diceto_, apud Hist. Angl. Script. Antiq., lib. vii. col. 606,
from whom it appears that the chief justitiary and justices itinerant were
all _priests_.
[576] _Spelm._ Concil., tom. ii. ad ann. 1217.
[577] INNOCENTIUS, &c. ... Praeterea cum in Angliae, Scotiae, Walliae regnis,
causae laicorum non imperatoriis legibus, sed laicorum consuetudinibus
decidantur, fratrum nostrorum, et aliorum religiosorum consilio et rogatu,
statuimus quod in praedictis regnis _leges saeculares_ de caetero non
legantur. _Matt. Par._, p. 883, ad ann. 1254, et in additamentis, p. 191.
[578] Et quod ipsi quos ad hoc elegerint, curiam sequantur, et se de
negotiis in eadem curia intromittant, et alii non. Et videtur regi et ejus
concilio, quod septies vigenti sufficere poterint, &c.--_Rolls of Parl._
20. E. 1. vol. i. p. 84, No. 22.
[579] _Dugd._ Orig. Jurid., cap. xxxix. p. 102.
[580] Ante, p. 118. Mace-bearers, bell-ringers, thief-takers, gaolers,
bailiffs, public executioners, and all persons who performed a specific
task for another, were called servientes, serjens, or serjeants.
--_Ducange_ Gloss.
[581] _Pasquier's_ Researches, liv. viii. cap. 19.
[582] _Will. Tyr._, lib. i. p. 50, lib. xii. p. 814.
[583] _Dugd._ Hist. Warwickshire, p. 704.
[584] Et tunc Magister Templi dedit sibi mantellum, et imposuit pileum
capiti suo, et tunc fecit eum sedere ad terram, injungens sibi, &c.--_Acta
contra Templarios._ _Concil. Mag. Brit._, tom. ii. p. 380. See also p.
335.
[585] It has been supposed that the coif was first introduced by the
clerical practitioners of the common law to hide the _tonsure_ of those
priests who practised in the Court of Common Pleas, notwithstanding the
ecclesiastical prohibition. This was not the case. The early portraits of
our judges exhibit them with a coif of very much larger dimensions than
the coifs now worn by the serjeants-at-law, very much larger than would be
necessary to hide the _mere clerical tonsure_. A covering for that purpose
indeed would be absurd. The antient coifs of the serjeants-at-law were
small linen or silk caps fitting close to the top of the head. This
peculiar covering is worn universally in the East, where the people shave
their heads and cut their hair close. It was imported into Europe by the
Knights Templars, and became a distinguishing badge of their order. From
the _freres serjens_ of the Temple it passed to the _freres serjens_ of
the law.
[586] Ex cod. MS. apud sub-thesaurarium Hosp. Medii Templi, f. 4. a. Dugd.
Orig. Jurid. cap. 43, 46.
[587] MS. in Bib. Int. Temp. No. 17. fo. 408.
[588] _Burton's_ Leicestershire, p. 235.
[589] After the courts of King's Bench and Exchequer had by a fiction of
law drawn to themselves a vast portion of the civil business originally
transacted in the Common Pleas alone, the degree of serjeant-at-law, with
its exclusive privilege of practising in the last-named court, was not
sought after as before. The advocates or barristers of the King's Bench
and Exchequer were, consequently, at different times, commanded by writ to
take upon them the degree of the _coif_, and transfer their practice to
the Common Pleas.
[590] _Malcom._ Lond. Rediviv., vol. ii. p. 282.
[591] MS. _Bib. Cotton._ Vitellius, c. 9, fol. 320, a.
[592] MS. _Bib. Cotton_, c. 9, fol. 320, a.
[593] _Hargrave,_ MS. No. 19, 81. f. 5. fol. 46.
[594] MS. in Bib. In. Temp., No. 19, fol.
[595] In. Temp. Ad. Parliament, ibm. XV. die Novembris Anno Philippi et
Mariae tertio et quarto, coram Johe Baker Milite, Nicho Hare Milite, Thoma
Whyte Milite, et al. MS. Bib. In. Tem. Div. 9, shelf 5, vol. xvii. fol.
393.
[596] Ex registr. In. Temp., f. 112, 119, b. Med. Temp., f. 24, a.
_Dugd._, Orig. Jurid., p. 310, 311.
[597] Ante, p. 180.
[598] _Dugd._ Orig. Jurid. p. 316. _Herbert_ Antiq., p. 223 to 272.
[599] _Leigh's_ Armorie, fol. 119. ed. 1576.
[600] _Naunton's_ Fragmenta Regalia, p. 248.
[601] _Chalmer's_ Dict. Biograph., vol. xvii. p. 227.
[602] _Dugd._ Orig. Jurid., p. 150. Ex registro Hosp. In. Temp. f. 123.
[603] _Whitelock's_ Memorials, p. 18-22. Ed. 1732.
[604] _Dugd._ Orig. p. 157. _Biog. Brit._ vol. xiv. p. 305.
[605] _Dugd._ Orig. p. 158.
[606] _Harleian_ MS., No. 830.
[607] MS. Bib. _Cotton._ Vitellius, c. 9. fol. 320 a.
[608] See the examination of Brother Radulph de Barton, priest of the
order of the Temple, and _custos_ of the Temple Church, before the papal
inquisitors at London.--_Concil. Mag. Brit._, tom. ii. p. 335, 337, ante,
p. 221, 222.
[609] _Peck_, Desiderata Curiosa, lib. xiii. p. 504, 505. Ed. 1779.
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