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Notitlæ Templariæ, No. 1.
in harassing the retreat of the Scots . The death of this Templar , which took p lace in Callender Wood , damped the ardour of his companions , and enabled the Scots to make goocl their retreat . " ( See " Life" in Constable ' s Miscellany . ) The possessions of the order in Scotland were very considerable . This appears from the numerous grants and charters made over to it .
The order had its head-quarters , or principal houses , in different stations throughout the country , such as , tbe Temple on the south Esk , and Balantradock , now called Arniston in Mid Lothian ; Aggerstone , in Stirlingshire ; Mary-Culter , in Kincardineshire ; Inchyan , in the county of Renfrew ; and St . Germains , in East Lothian . Of all these they were deprived about the beginning of the fourteenth
century , soon after the prosecutions of the order in France by Philip the Fair . A Papal Inquisition sat at Holyrood , in December , 1309 , to try or rather to condemn them . Only two Templars appeared before this court , to answer for the crimes of which the order was accused .
These two were Walter de Clifton , grand preceptor for Scotland , and Wiffiam de Middleton . All the rest of the Knights had absconded , on the first symptoms of persecution and oppression ; and joined themselves , it is said , to the patriot bands of the Bruce . Such at least is the tradition of their fate , to which a modern French work on the order adds , that they were remodelled into a new order by King Robert ,
whose ceremonies were founded on that of the Temple . How far this is historically correct , we have not the means of judging , in the shape of proofs from any writings ; but we give the paragraph from the French as it stands : " Apres la mort de Jacques de Molay , des Templiers Ecossais etant devenue apostats , a l'instigation du Roi Robert Bruce , se rangerent sous les bannieres d'un nouvel ordre institue par ce prince ,
et dans lequel les receptions furent basees sur celles de 1 ' ordre du Temple . " ( vid . " Manuel de V Ordre da Temple , 1823 . " ) The French writer further deduces the origin and spread of Masonry in Scotland from the above event . This , however , involves a very difficult question , but a very interesting one , as to the co-existence or con-socially of Freemasonry and Templery—to borrow the German
expression . According to the last quoted authority ( which in every thing official is worthy of the highest regard , being published under the auspices of the Grand Chapter of Paris ) , the unfortunate Scottish Templars were excommunicated by the grand master Larmenius , the successor of the martyred de Molay , because they had disbanded when they could no longer keep together , and " bathed their swords in bloody Bannockburn . " The Templar anathema is a curiosity of its kind : " Ego denique fratrum Supremi Conventus decreto , e supremo mihi commissa auctoritate , Scotos Templarios ordinis desertores , anathemate
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Notitlæ Templariæ, No. 1.
in harassing the retreat of the Scots . The death of this Templar , which took p lace in Callender Wood , damped the ardour of his companions , and enabled the Scots to make goocl their retreat . " ( See " Life" in Constable ' s Miscellany . ) The possessions of the order in Scotland were very considerable . This appears from the numerous grants and charters made over to it .
The order had its head-quarters , or principal houses , in different stations throughout the country , such as , tbe Temple on the south Esk , and Balantradock , now called Arniston in Mid Lothian ; Aggerstone , in Stirlingshire ; Mary-Culter , in Kincardineshire ; Inchyan , in the county of Renfrew ; and St . Germains , in East Lothian . Of all these they were deprived about the beginning of the fourteenth
century , soon after the prosecutions of the order in France by Philip the Fair . A Papal Inquisition sat at Holyrood , in December , 1309 , to try or rather to condemn them . Only two Templars appeared before this court , to answer for the crimes of which the order was accused .
These two were Walter de Clifton , grand preceptor for Scotland , and Wiffiam de Middleton . All the rest of the Knights had absconded , on the first symptoms of persecution and oppression ; and joined themselves , it is said , to the patriot bands of the Bruce . Such at least is the tradition of their fate , to which a modern French work on the order adds , that they were remodelled into a new order by King Robert ,
whose ceremonies were founded on that of the Temple . How far this is historically correct , we have not the means of judging , in the shape of proofs from any writings ; but we give the paragraph from the French as it stands : " Apres la mort de Jacques de Molay , des Templiers Ecossais etant devenue apostats , a l'instigation du Roi Robert Bruce , se rangerent sous les bannieres d'un nouvel ordre institue par ce prince ,
et dans lequel les receptions furent basees sur celles de 1 ' ordre du Temple . " ( vid . " Manuel de V Ordre da Temple , 1823 . " ) The French writer further deduces the origin and spread of Masonry in Scotland from the above event . This , however , involves a very difficult question , but a very interesting one , as to the co-existence or con-socially of Freemasonry and Templery—to borrow the German
expression . According to the last quoted authority ( which in every thing official is worthy of the highest regard , being published under the auspices of the Grand Chapter of Paris ) , the unfortunate Scottish Templars were excommunicated by the grand master Larmenius , the successor of the martyred de Molay , because they had disbanded when they could no longer keep together , and " bathed their swords in bloody Bannockburn . " The Templar anathema is a curiosity of its kind : " Ego denique fratrum Supremi Conventus decreto , e supremo mihi commissa auctoritate , Scotos Templarios ordinis desertores , anathemate