[351] Acta Rymeri, tom. iii. p. 101, 2, 3.

[352] Acta Rymeri, tom. iii. p. 110, 111. Vitæ 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 Magnæ Britanniæ, tom. ii. p. 329-401, and by Dugdale, in the Monast. Angl. vol. vi. part 2. p. 844-848.

[364] Actum in Capella infirmariæ prioratus Sanctæ Trinitatis præsentibus, etc. Concilia Magnæ Britanniæ, 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 præmissorum testimonium reverendus in Christo pater dominus Willielmus, providentiâ divinâ S. Andreæ episcopus, et magister Johannes de Solerio prædicti sigilla sua præsenti inquisitioni appenderunt, et eisdem sigillis post subscriptionem meam eandem inquisitionem clauserunt. In quorum etiam firmius testimonium ego Willielmus de Spottiswod auctoritate imperiali notarius qui prædictæ inquisitioni interfui die, anno, et loco prædictis, testibus præsentibus supra dictis, signum meum solitum eidem apposui requisitus, et propriâ manu scripsi rogatus.—Acta contra Templarios. Concil. Mag. Brit., tom. ii. p. 380, 383.

[370] Act. in ecclesiâ 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 Provinciâ Eboracensi.—Concil. Mag. Brit., tom. ii. p. 371-373.

[376] Eodem anno (1310) XIX. die Maii apud Eborum in ecclesiâ cathedrali, ex mandato speciali Domini Papæ, tenuit dominus Archiepiscopus concilium provinciale. Prædicavitque 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 ecclesiâ 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 secundâ vitâ 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 quæstiones ad inquirendum super eisdem criminibus procedatur, quamvis iidem Templarii diffiteri dicuntur super eisdem articulis veritatem.... Attende, quæsumus, fili carissime, et prudenti deliberatione considera, si hoc tuo honori et saluti conveniat, et statui congruat regni tui. Arch. secret. Vatican. Registr. literar. curiæ anno 5 domini Clementis Papæ 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 quæstionarentur; ita quod quæstiones illæ 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 APOSTOLICÆ, concessimus prælatis et inquisitoribus ad inquirendum contra ordinem Templariorum, et contra Magnum Præceptorem ejusdem ordinis in regno nostro Angliæ, quod iidem prælati et inquisitores, de ipsis Templariis et eorum corporibus IN QUÆSTIONIBUS, et aliis ad hoc convenientibus ordinent et faciant, quoties voluerint, id quod eis secundum legem ecclesiasticam, videbitur faciendum, &c.—Teste rege apud Linliscu in Scotiâ, 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 (quæ 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 suâ 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, præfati vicecomites, mandamus quod illos, quos dicti prælati et inquisitores, seu aliquis eorum, cum uno saltem inquisitore, deputaverint ad supervidendum quod dicta custodia bene fiat, id supervidere; et corpora dictorum Templariorum in QUÆSTIONIBUS et aliis ad hoc convenientibus, ponere; et alia, quæ 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 hæc die et loco prædictis, præsentibus patribus antedictis, et venerandæ 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 Hispaniæ, 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 sententiâ concordant omnes prælati Italiæ præter unum, Hispaniæ, Theutoniæ, Daniæ, Angliæ, Scotiæ, Hiberniæ, 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 militiæ 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 mœurs, &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, 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.

[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 hæc in capellâ juxta ecclesiam, apud Novum Templum London, ex parte Australi ipsius ecclesiæ sitâ, 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 animâ Regis Henrici Tertii. Ex regist. Hosp. S. Johannis Jerus. in Angliâ. 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 Françoise, 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 sæculo 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 Angliæ, comitesque Pembrochiæ.—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 ecclesiæ 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 infrænus, maneria, villas, cæteraque, 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 cæteris ecclesiastici decoris ornamentis rapuit, &c. MS. ut sup. Gest. reg. Steph. p. 693, 694.

[493] De vitâ sceleratâ 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 ecclesiæ 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 pomœrio suo veteris, scilicet Templi apud London, canali inclusum plumbeo, in arbore torvâ suspenderant. Antient MS. de fundatione cœnobii 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 sepulturæ.—Ib.

[499] A. D. MCLXIIII, sexto kal. Octobris, obiit Galfridus de Mandeuil, comes Essexiæ, fundator primus hujus monasterii de Walden, cujus corpus jacet Londoniis humatum, apud Temple-bar in porticu ante ostium ecclesiæ occidentale. MS. in the library of the Royal Society, marked No. 29, entitled Liber de fundatione Sancti Jacobi Apostoli de Waldenâ. Cotton, MS. Vesp. E. vi. fol. 25.

[500] Hoveden speaks of him as a man of the highest probity, but irreligious. Erat autem summæ probitatis, sed summæ in Deum obstinationis, magnæ in mundanis diligentiæ, magnæ in Deum negligentiæ. 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 ecclesiâ, 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 Pembrochiæ, in militiâ 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 hæc audivit, et cum vidisset, corpus defuncti pallâ coopertum, ex alto trahens suspiria, ait, Heu, heu, mihi! nonne adhuc penitus vindicatus est sanguis beati Thomæ 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 prævio, 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 sæpedicti 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 Angliâ, 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 Thomæ Comitis Lancastriæ, et de honore Leicestrie.”

[548] Processus contra comitem Lancastriæ. 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 Thomæ, et quædam platea terræ eidem capellæ annexata, cum una aula et camera supra edificata, quæ sunt loca sancta, et Deo dedicata, et dictæ ecclesiæ annexata, et eidem Priori per idem breve liberata.... Item dicunt, quod præter ista, sunt ibidem in custodia Wilielmi de Langford infra Magnam Portam dicti Novi Templi, extra metas et disjunctiones prædictas, una aula et quatuor cameræ, una coquina, unum gardinum, unum stabulum, et una camera ultra Magnam Portam prædictam, &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 gratiâ nostrâ speciali, et pro bono servitio quod Rogerus Small nobis impendit et impendat in futuro, concessimus ei officium Janitoris Novi Templi London Habend. &c. pro vitâ suâ &c. pertinend. &c. omnia vada et feoda &c. eodem modo qualia Robertus Fetyt defunct. Qui officium illud ex concessione domini Edwardi nuper regis Angliæ 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-Sanctæ Mariæ 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 prædictâ. 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 illâ. 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 mensæ 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. ... Præterea cum in Angliæ, Scotiæ, Walliæ regnis, causæ laicorum non imperatoriis legibus, sed laicorum consuetudinibus decidantur, fratrum nostrorum, et aliorum religiosorum consilio et rogatu, statuimus quod in prædictis regnis leges sæculares de cætero 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 Mariæ 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.