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

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.