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Historical Notes Relative To The Order Of The Temple.
suffered any punishment except a short imprisonment . It is universally acknowledged , even by the French authors themselves , that the Templars were drawn up under the banner of Robert Bruce , ancl that they fought for his cause , until the issue of the battle of Bannockburn , in 1314 , established bim upon the throne . The prince clid not prove himself ungrateful . The privileges which the Templars formerly enjoyed were strengthened by himand maintained bhis successors .
, y The institution of the " Royal Order of Scotland" by King Robert , after the battle of Bauuockburn , has induced some historians to conclude that the Templars were amalgamated with that Order ; and when we take it into consideration that the said Order has been considered for some centuries to be related unto the higher degrees of Freemasonry , which the Templars of our days acknowledge , then it is not strange that this error has become so universal . But Thory , in bis Acta
Latomorum , gives an account of the Royal Order , called also the Order of II . D . M . of Kilwinning , buttloes not endeavour tofind a union between that Order and the Templars . And truly , as shall afterwards appear , such an amalgamation never took place . The extent of the possessions which belonged to the Temple in Scotland during the 14 th and 15 th centuries , was very considerable . Many of those possessions appear to have been leased to temporal barons
, either for a certain rent , or for the services of a certain number of men in case of war , a practice originally brought into vogue by the custom of the Latin empire in Palestine , where nearly as many laymen as real members of the Order fought beneath its banners . Among the memorials of the Order which are yet preserved , ancl which were then in the possession of the Order , there are various charters of those clays , two which we annex . The first is a lease granted by William cle Lisours
the elder , and is dated in the year 131-0 . About the commencement of the reign of James IV ., a union was brought about between the Knights Templar and those of St . John , and the landed estates belonging to both those bodies were made common property . * No documents have been found wliich accurately determine the date of this union . If that any ever existed , they must have rested among the archives of the Hospitaliers . f But the fact that the union itself did take place is put beyond ail
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Historical Notes Relative To The Order Of The Temple.
suffered any punishment except a short imprisonment . It is universally acknowledged , even by the French authors themselves , that the Templars were drawn up under the banner of Robert Bruce , ancl that they fought for his cause , until the issue of the battle of Bannockburn , in 1314 , established bim upon the throne . The prince clid not prove himself ungrateful . The privileges which the Templars formerly enjoyed were strengthened by himand maintained bhis successors .
, y The institution of the " Royal Order of Scotland" by King Robert , after the battle of Bauuockburn , has induced some historians to conclude that the Templars were amalgamated with that Order ; and when we take it into consideration that the said Order has been considered for some centuries to be related unto the higher degrees of Freemasonry , which the Templars of our days acknowledge , then it is not strange that this error has become so universal . But Thory , in bis Acta
Latomorum , gives an account of the Royal Order , called also the Order of II . D . M . of Kilwinning , buttloes not endeavour tofind a union between that Order and the Templars . And truly , as shall afterwards appear , such an amalgamation never took place . The extent of the possessions which belonged to the Temple in Scotland during the 14 th and 15 th centuries , was very considerable . Many of those possessions appear to have been leased to temporal barons
, either for a certain rent , or for the services of a certain number of men in case of war , a practice originally brought into vogue by the custom of the Latin empire in Palestine , where nearly as many laymen as real members of the Order fought beneath its banners . Among the memorials of the Order which are yet preserved , ancl which were then in the possession of the Order , there are various charters of those clays , two which we annex . The first is a lease granted by William cle Lisours
the elder , and is dated in the year 131-0 . About the commencement of the reign of James IV ., a union was brought about between the Knights Templar and those of St . John , and the landed estates belonging to both those bodies were made common property . * No documents have been found wliich accurately determine the date of this union . If that any ever existed , they must have rested among the archives of the Hospitaliers . f But the fact that the union itself did take place is put beyond ail