Sketch of the History of the Knights Templars

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Burnes James. Sketch of the History of the Knights Templars

NOTICE

List of Chevaliers,

INTRODUCTION

THE HOSPITALLERS

CHAP. I. The Hospitallers

THE TEMPLARS

CHAP. II. The Knights Templars

PERSECUTION OF THE TEMPLARS

CHAP. III. The Persecution of The Templars

CONTINUATION OF THE ORDER

CHAP. IV. The Continuation of the Order

TEMPLARS OF SCOTLAND

CHAP. V. The Knights Templars of Scotland

APPENDIX

Bull of Pope Clement V

Charter of Transmission

Le Trésor

Guillaume-Sidney,

DISCOURS DE L'AMIRAL SIR SIDNEY SMITH, AU CONVENT GENERAL LE 27 JANVIER 1837

DEATH AND FUNERAL OF ADMIRAL SIR WILLIAM SIDNEY SMITH, G.C.B

DISCOURS PRONONCE AUX FUNERAILLES DE L'AMIRAL SIR SIDNEY SMITH, PAR M. JULLIEN, DE PARIS,

DISCOURS PRONONCÉ SUR LA TOMBE DE SIR WILLIAM SIDNEY SMITH, AMIRAL DE LA FLOTTE ROUGE D'ANGLETERRE,

SKETCH OF THE HISTORY AND POSSESSIONS OF THE ORDER IN IRELAND

EXTRACT OF CHARTER

S. M. G. D. O

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Edinburgh, August 1840.

The account of the present state of the Order has been taken from the official "Manuel des Chevaliers de l'Ordre du Temple," published both at Paris and Liverpool; as well as from information gathered either in foreign books, such as the "Acta Latamorum," in which all the Statutes, &c. were given to the Public in 1815, or from conversations with which I have been honoured by His Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex, Admiral Sir William Sidney Smith, General Wright, and other distinguished Templars, at home and abroad. For much of the information recorded in the Chapter on the Scottish Templars, I am under great obligations to Adam Paterson, and William Pringle, Esquires, both of whom furnished me with valuable Manuscripts. The latter of these gentlemen is the author of various papers on the Templars, in that valuable periodical, the Free-Masons' Review, nor was it until I had failed to induce him to give, in a continuous form, the result of his own researches on the subject, that I myself ventured to enter upon the present Work.

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It is uncertain whether Raymond had any ulterior design of making the order of the Hospitallers a military one, but if such was his intention, he was anticipated. The kingdom of Jerusalem, over which Baldwin II. now ruled, had been in a very extraordinary state from the date of its conquest. It lay between two enemies, the Egyptians on the south, and the Turks on the north; and these Moslems, though of opposite and hostile sects, agreed in hatred of the Christians, and a desire to take Jerusalem – which was to them also the Holy City – out of the hands of the western infidels; the independent Arabs of the desert were also inimical to the Christians, and as fond of plunder as they have been at all periods of their history. Hence, the Holy Land was continually infested by predatory bands, who robbed and plundered all who fell in their way; the pious pilgrim who disembarked at Joppa or Acre, was fortunate if he reached the ultimate object of his journey in safety; and when he had visited all the consecrated places within the sacred walls, new perils awaited him on his way to bathe in the purifying waters of the Jordan, or to pluck in the gardens of Jericho the palm branch which he was to suspend in the church on his return.

By the Bull, Omne datum optimum, granted by Pope Alexander III. in 1162, the Order of the Templars acquired great importance, and from this time forth, it may be regarded as totally independent, acknowledging no authority but that – before which the haughtiest monarchs bowed – of the supreme pontiff, who protected and favoured them as his champions against all who might dispute his will. It is therefore of importance to look at its constitution, and what were its revenues and possessions.

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