The History of the Knights Templars, the Temple Church, and the Temple

71

Prædicti enim Hospitalis fratres ad imitationem fratrum militiæ Templi, armis materialibus utentes, milites cum servientibus in suo collegio receperunt. —Jac. de Vit. cap. lxv.

72

Will. Tyr. lib. xx. cap. 5.

73

This assumption of arms by the Hospitallers was entirely at variance with the original end and object of their institution. Pope Anastasius, in a bull dated A. D. 1154, observes, “omnia vestra sustentationibus peregrinorum et pauperum debent cedere, ac per hoc nullatenus aliis usibus ea convenit applicari.” —De Vertot, liv. i. preuve 13.

74

Gest. Dei per Francos, p. 1177.

75

Will. Tyr. lib. xx. cap. 5. Hoveden in Hen. 2, p. 622. De Vertot, Hist. des Chevaliers de Malte, liv. ii. p. 150 to 161, ed. 1726.

76

Will. Tyr. lib. xxi. cap. 29.

77

Will. Tyr. lib. xx. xxi. xxii.

78

Omne datum optimum et omne donum perfectum desursum est, descendens a Patre luminum, apud quem non est transmutatio, nec vicissitudinis obumbratio.

79

Acta Rymeri, tom. i. ad ann. 1172, p. 30, 31, 32.

80

Wilcke, Geschichte des Tempelherrenordens, vol. ii. p. 230.

81

3 Concil. Lat. cap. 9.

82

Regula, cap. 20.

83

Cap. 21, 22.

84

Cap. 20, 27, of the rule.

85

Jac. de Vitr. Hist. Orient. apud Martene thesaur. nov. anecdot. tom. iii. col. 276, 277.

86

Narratio Patriarchæ Hierosolymitani coram summo Pontifice de statu Terræ Sanctæ. ex M. S. Cod. Bigotiano, apud Martene thesaur. nov. anecdot. tom. iii. col. 276, 277.

87

Dissertation sur les Assassins, Académie des Inscriptions, tom. xvii. p. 127, 170. De Guignes, Hist. des Huns. —Will. Tyr. lib. xx. cap. 31.

88

Jac. de Vitr. Hist. Orient. lib. iii. p. 1142. Will. Tyr. lib. xx. cap. 32.

89

Adjecit etiam et alia a spiritu superbiæ, quo ipse plurimum abundabat, dictata, quæ præsenti narrationi no multum necessarium est interserere. —Will. Tyr. lib. xx. cap. 32.

90

Will. Tyr. lib. xxi. cap. 20, 22, 23. Abulfeda Abulpharadge, Chron. Syr. p. 379.

91

Capti sunt ibi de nostris, Otto de Sancto Amando militiæ Templi Magister, homo nequaquam superbus et arrogans, spiritum furoris habens in naribus, nec Deum timens, nec ad homines habens reverentiam. —Will. Tyr. lib. xxi. cap. 29, Abulpharadge, Chron. Syr. p. 380, 381.

92

Abulpharadge, Chron. Syr. ut sup. Menologium Cisterciente, p. 194. Bernardus Thesaurarius de acq. Terr. Sanc. cap. 139.

93

Dicens non esse consuetudinis militum Templi ut aliqua redemptio daretur pro eis præter cingulum et cultellum. Chron. Trivet apud Hall, vol. i. p. 77.

94

Eodem anno quo captus est in vinculis et squalore carceris, nulli lugendus, dicitur obiisse. —Will. Tyr. lib. xxi. cap. 29. Ib. lib. xxii. cap. 7. Gallia christiana nova, tom. i. col. 258; ibid p. 172, instrumentorum.

95

Abulfeda, ad ann. 1182, 3. Will. Tyr. lib. xxii. cap. 16-20.

96

Unde propter causas prædictas generali providentia statutum est, ut Jerosolymitanus Patriarcha, petendi contra immanissimum hostem Saladinum auxilii gratia, ad christianos principos in Europam mitteretur; sed maxime ad illustrem Anglorum regem, cujus efficacior et promptia opera sperabatur. —Hemingford, cap. 33; Radulph de Diceto, inter; Hist. Angl. X. script. p. 622.

97

Concil. Magn. Brit. tom. iv. p. 788, 789.

98

Arnauld of Troy. Radulph de Diceto, ut sup. p. 625.

99

Eodem anno (1185,) Baldewinus rex Jerusalem, et Templares et Hospitalares, miserunt ad regem Angliæ Heraclium, sanctæ civitatis Jerusalem Patriarcha, et summos Hospitalis et Templi Magistros una cum vexillo regio, et clavibus sepulchri Domini, et turris David, et civitatis Jerusalem; postulantes ab eo celerem succursum … qui statim ad pedes regis provoluti cum fletu magno et singultu, verba salutationis ex parte regis et principum et universæ plebis terræ Jerosolymitanæ proferebant … tradiderunt ei vexillum regium, etc. etc. —Hoveden, ad ann. 1185; Radulph de Diceto, p. 626.

100

Matt. Westm. ad ann. 1185; Guill. Neubr. tom. i. lib. iii. cap. 12, 13. Chron. Dunst.

101

Speed. Hist. Britain, p. 506. A. D. 1185.

102

Stowe’s Survey; Tanner, Notit. Monast.; Dugd. Orig. Jurid.

103

Herbert, Antiq. Inns of Court.

104

“Yea, and a part of that too,” says Sir William Dugdale, in his origines juridiciales, as appears from the first grant thereof to Sir William Paget, Knight, Pat. ii. Edward VI. p. 2.

105

We read on many old charters and deeds, “Datum apud vetus Templum Londoniæ.” See an example, Nichols’ Leicestershire, vol. iii. p. 959; see also the account, in Matt. Par. and Hoveden, of the king’s visit to Hugh bishop of Lincoln, who lay sick of a fever at the Old Temple, and died there, the 16th November, A. D. 1200.

106

Anno ab incarnatione Domini MCLXXXV. facta est ista inquisitio de terrarum donatoribus, et earum possessoribus, ecclesiarum scil. et molendinorum, et terrarum assisarum, et in dominico habitarum, et de redditibus assisis per Angliam, per fratrem Galfridum filium Stephani, quando ipse suscepit balliam de Anglia, qui summo studio prædicta inquirendo curam sollicitam exhibuit, ut majoris notitiæ posteris expressionem generaret, et pervicacibus omnimodam nocendi rescinderet facultatem. Ex. cod. MS. in Scacc. penes Remor. Regis. fol. i. a.; Dugd. Monast. Angl. vol. vi. part ii. p. 820.

107

Quorum res adeo crevit in immensum, ut hodie, trecentos in conventu habeant equites, albis chlamydibus indutos: exceptis fratribus, quorum pene infinitus est numerus. Possessiones autem, tam ultra quam citra mare, adeo dicuntur immensas habere, ut jam non sit in orbe christiano provincia quæ prædictis fratribus suorum portionem non contulerit, et regiis opulentiis pares hodie dicuntur habere copias. —Will. Tyr. lib. xii. cap. 7.

108

Dominus Baldwinus illustris memoriæ, Hierosolymorum rex quartus, Gazam munitissimam fratribus militiæ Templi donavit, Will. Tyr. lib. xx. cap. 21. Milites Templi Gazam antiquam Palæstinæ civitatem reædificant, et turribus eam muniunt, Rob. de Monte, appen. ad chron. Sig. p. 631.

109

Marin. Sanut, p. 221. Bernard Thesaur. p. 768. Radulph Coggleshale, p. 249. Hoveden, p. 636. Radulph de Diceto, ut sup. p. 623. Matt. Par. p. 142. Italia sacra, tom. iii. p. 407.

110

Tunc Julianus Dominus Sydonis vendidit Sydonem et Belfort Templariis, Marin. Sanut, cap. vi. p. 221.

111

Atlas Marianus, p. 156; Siciliæ Antiq., tom. iii. col. 1000.

112

Gallia christiana nova, tom. iii. col. 118; Probat. tom. ix. col. 1067, tom. x. col. 1292, tom. xi. col. 46; Roccus Pyrrhus, Sicil. Antiq. tom. iii. col. 1093, 4, 5, 6, 7, &c.

113

Petrus Maria Campus Hist. Placent. part ii. n. 28; Pauli M. Paciandi de cultu S. Johannis Bapt. Antiq. p. 297.

114

Description et delices d’Espagne, tom. iii. p. 259; Hist. Portugal, La Clede, tom. i. p. 200, 202, &c.; Hispania illustrata, tom. iii. p. 49.

115

Annales Minorum, tom. v. p. 247; tom. vi. p. 211, 218; tom. viii. p. 26, 27; tom. ix. p. 130, 141. —Campomanes.

116

Marcæ Hispanicæ, col. 1291, 1292, 1304. Gall. christ. nov. tom. i. col. 195. Mariana, de. reb. Hisp. lib. ii. cap. 23.

117

Script. rer. Germ. tom. ii. col. 584. Annales Minorum, tom. vi. p. 5, 95, 177. Suevia and Vertenbergia sacra, p. 74. Annal. Bamb. p. 186. Notitiæ episcopatûs Middelb. p. 11. Scrip. de rebus Marchiæ Brandeburg, p. 13. Aventinus annal. lib. vii. cap. 1. n. 7. Gall. christ. nov. tom. viii. col. 1382; tom. i. col. 1129.

118

Constantinopolis christiana, lib. iv. p. 157.

119

Hist. de l’Eglise de Besancon, tom. ii. p. 397, 421, 450, 474, 445, 470, 509, &c.

120

Hist. de l’Eglise de St. Etienne à Dijon, p. 133, 137, 205. Hist. de Bresse, tom. i. p. 52, 55, 84.

121

Hist. gen. de Languedoc, liv. ii. p. 523; liv. xvi., p. 362; liv. xvii. p. 427; liv. xxii. p. 25, 226. Gall. christ. tom. vi. col. 727. Martene Thesaur. anecd. tom. i. col. 575.

122

Gall. christ. nov. tom. i. p. 32; tom. iii. col. 333; tom. ii. col. 46, 47, and 72. La Martiniere dict. geogr. Martene, ampl. collect. tom. vi. col. 226. Gloss. nov. tom. iii. col. 223.

123

Histoire de la ville de Paris, tom. i. p. 174. Gall. christ. nov. tom. vii. col. 853.

124

Annales Trevir. tom. ii. p. 91, 197, 479. Prodromus hist. Trevir. p. 1077. Bertholet hist. de Luxembourg, tom. v. p. 145. Joh. Bapt. Antiq. Flandriæ Gandavum, p. 24, 207. Antiq. Bredanæ, p. 12, 23. Austroburgus, p. 115. Aub Miræi Diplomat. tom. ii. p. 1165, &c.

125

Dugd. Monast. Angl. vol. vi. part 2, p. 800 to 817. Concilia Magnæ Britanniæ, tom. iii. p. 333 to 382. Acta Rymeri, tom. iii. p. 279, 288, 291, 295, &c.

126

Acta Rymeri, tom. iii. p. 279, 288, 291, 297, &c.

127

Nichols’ hist. of Leicestershire.

128

Clutterbuck’s hist. Hertfordshire. Chauncey, antiq. Hert. Acta Rymeri, tom. iii. p. 133, 134. Dodsworth, M. S. vol. xxxv.

129

Morant’s hist. Essex, Rymer. tom. iii. p. 290 to 294.

130

Redditus omnium ecclesiarum et molendinorum et terrarum de bailliâ de Lincolnscire. Inquis. terrar. ut sup. fol. 41 b to 48 b and 49 a. Peck’s MS. in Museo Britannico, vol. iv. fol. 95 et seq.

131

Peck’s MS. ut sup. fol. 95.

132

Inquis. ut. sup. 58 b to 65 b.

133

Inquis. terrar. ut sup. fol. 12 a to 23 a. Dodsworth MS. vol. xx. p. 65, 67, ex quodam rotulo tangente terras Templariorum. Rot. 42, 46, p. 964. Dugd. Baron. tom. i. p. 70.

134

Monast. Angl. ut sup. p. 840. Hasted. hist. Kent.

135

Ex cod. MS. in officio armorum, L. xvii. fol. 141 a. Calendarium Inquis. post mortem, p. 13. 18.

136

Manning’s Surrey. Atkyn’s Gloucestershire; and see the references in Tanner. Nash’s Worcestershire.

137

Bridge’s Northamptonshire, vol. ii. p. 100.

138

Thoroton’s Nottinghamshire. Burn and Nicholson’s Westmoreland. Worsley’s Isle of Wight.

139

Habuerunt insuper Templarii in Christianitate novem millia maneriorum … præter emolumenta et varios proventus ex fraternitatibus et prædicationibus provenientes, et per privilegia sua accrescentes. Mat. Par. p. 615, ed. Lond. 1640.

140

Amplis autem possessionibus tam citra mare quam ultra ditati sunt in immensum, villas, civitates et oppida, ex quibus certam pecuniæ summam, pro defensione Terræ Sanctæ, summo eorum magistro cujus sedes principalis erat in Jerusalem, mittunt annuatim. —Jac. de Vitr. Hist. Hierosol. p. 1084.

141

Masculum pullum, si natus sit super terram domus, vendere non possunt sine licentiâ fratrum. Si filiam habent, dare non possunt sine licentiâ fratrum. Inquisitio terrarum, ut supr. fol. 18 a.

142

The Templars, by diverting the water, created a great nuisance. In A. D. 1290, the Prior et fratres de Carmelo (the white friars) complained to the king in parliament of the putrid exhalations arising from the Fleet river, which were so powerful as to overcome all the frankincense burnt at their altar during divine service, and had occasioned the deaths of many of their brethren. They beg that the stench may be removed, lest they also should perish. The Friars preachers (black friars) and the bishop of Salisbury (whose house stood in Salisbury-court) made a similar complaint; as did also Henry Lacy, Earl of Lincoln, who alleges that the Templars (ipsi de novo Templo) had turned off the water of the river to their mills at Castle Baignard. —Rot. Parl. vol. i. p. 60, 200.

143

Ex cod. MS. in officio armorum, L. xvii. fol. 141 a. Dugd. Monast. Angl. ut sup. p. 838. Tanner, Notit. Monast.

144

Dugd. Baronage. Monast. Angl. p. 800 to 844.

145

Power to hold courts;

146

to impose and levy fines and amerciaments upon their tenants;

147

to buy and sell, or to hold a kind of market;

148

to judge and punish their villains and vassals;

149

to try thieves and malefactors belonging to their manors, and taken within the precincts thereof;

150

to judge foreign thieves taken within the said manors, &c.

151

Cart. 11. Hen. 3. M. 33. Dugd. Monast. p. 844.

152

Acta Rymeri, tom. i. p. 54, 298, 574, 575.

153

Page 431.

154

13 Edward I.

155

2 Inst. p. 432.

156

2 Inst. p. 465.

157

Stat. Westr. 2, cap. 43, 13 Ed. I.

158

The title Master of the Temple was so generally applied to the superiors of the western provinces, that we find in the Greek of the lower empire, the words Τέμπλου Μαιστὼρ. Ducange. Gloss.