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College Musings.
not to be despised , at very moderate r . rpense . Agreeably refreshed by our excellent icpast , we remounted our horses and returned to Douglas Town by the coast road . Part of it runs along the edge of a precipice immediately overlooking the sea . There are strong fences erected to prevent accidents , so that the timid need not be alarmed ; and the view , with all its combination of features , must be beheld to be imagined . Two hours' easy riding brought us to Douglas again , by a road running
parallel with the shore of the bay , entering it at the point opposite the harbour , by a pass cut through the solid rock . The spectacle which breaks upon the eye as you descend towards the beach is most animating and enrapturing . The sun was fast embracing the far-off horizon of the blue waters , edge gilding the circumjacent clouds with golden hues . The " busy hum" of the lively town came wafted to the ear on the wings ofthe evening breeze , while all nature seemed to join with the gay and laughing parties gathered on the sands , to give effect to the enchantment of such a landscape .
Knights Templar.
KNIGHTS TEMPLAR .
The following document was copied by me from a part of a minutebook which belonged to the " Early Grand Encampment of Knights Templar qf England , " and bearing an early date in the last century , also containing an impression of their Seal , evidently of ancient date , both of which came into the possession of his late Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex , M . S . E . G . M . of K . T . ' of England . JOHN PURDV .
A brief account of the most noble , sacred , and illustrious order of the Knights Templar , translated from an authentic ancient manuscript found in the year 1540 , in a square oak box , under the high altar of the Templars' Church in London , immediately after the suppression of the Knights of St . John of Jerusalem , by Henry VI ., the 25 th May , in the above mentioned year . I . C , ST . C .
The Knights of St . John were successors to the Templars after their expulsion by Edward II . in the year 1312 , the time this manuscript is written and deposited . When found it was carefully conveyed to the hands of Jacob Ulric , St . Clair , of Roslyn , in Scotland , whose family had the honour of the hereditary Grand Mastership of that kingdom conferred on them , and in which it continued uninterrupted for upwards of two centuries . William St . Clair of Roslyn , in the year 1736 , gave it to his
nephew , John St . Clair , M . D ., oi Old Castle , in the County of Meath , then studying at Glasgow , from whom and by whose assistance I took this copy in the year 1784 . It was written upon a piece of skin , resembling our parchment , but much thicker ; the letters , ancient Norman characters , found in the Doomsday Book of William I . Some had been gilt , but are now black , and chipped off ; the whole seems to have been done rather with a painting pencil than any kind of pen ; their colour
mostly red , with some black . The entire would have been unintelligible to me , but for the assistance of the above mentioned Dr . St . Clair , who during his stay at Leydeu , where he resided some years , and made the Celtic and ancient Norman languages his study for the better under -
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College Musings.
not to be despised , at very moderate r . rpense . Agreeably refreshed by our excellent icpast , we remounted our horses and returned to Douglas Town by the coast road . Part of it runs along the edge of a precipice immediately overlooking the sea . There are strong fences erected to prevent accidents , so that the timid need not be alarmed ; and the view , with all its combination of features , must be beheld to be imagined . Two hours' easy riding brought us to Douglas again , by a road running
parallel with the shore of the bay , entering it at the point opposite the harbour , by a pass cut through the solid rock . The spectacle which breaks upon the eye as you descend towards the beach is most animating and enrapturing . The sun was fast embracing the far-off horizon of the blue waters , edge gilding the circumjacent clouds with golden hues . The " busy hum" of the lively town came wafted to the ear on the wings ofthe evening breeze , while all nature seemed to join with the gay and laughing parties gathered on the sands , to give effect to the enchantment of such a landscape .
Knights Templar.
KNIGHTS TEMPLAR .
The following document was copied by me from a part of a minutebook which belonged to the " Early Grand Encampment of Knights Templar qf England , " and bearing an early date in the last century , also containing an impression of their Seal , evidently of ancient date , both of which came into the possession of his late Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex , M . S . E . G . M . of K . T . ' of England . JOHN PURDV .
A brief account of the most noble , sacred , and illustrious order of the Knights Templar , translated from an authentic ancient manuscript found in the year 1540 , in a square oak box , under the high altar of the Templars' Church in London , immediately after the suppression of the Knights of St . John of Jerusalem , by Henry VI ., the 25 th May , in the above mentioned year . I . C , ST . C .
The Knights of St . John were successors to the Templars after their expulsion by Edward II . in the year 1312 , the time this manuscript is written and deposited . When found it was carefully conveyed to the hands of Jacob Ulric , St . Clair , of Roslyn , in Scotland , whose family had the honour of the hereditary Grand Mastership of that kingdom conferred on them , and in which it continued uninterrupted for upwards of two centuries . William St . Clair of Roslyn , in the year 1736 , gave it to his
nephew , John St . Clair , M . D ., oi Old Castle , in the County of Meath , then studying at Glasgow , from whom and by whose assistance I took this copy in the year 1784 . It was written upon a piece of skin , resembling our parchment , but much thicker ; the letters , ancient Norman characters , found in the Doomsday Book of William I . Some had been gilt , but are now black , and chipped off ; the whole seems to have been done rather with a painting pencil than any kind of pen ; their colour
mostly red , with some black . The entire would have been unintelligible to me , but for the assistance of the above mentioned Dr . St . Clair , who during his stay at Leydeu , where he resided some years , and made the Celtic and ancient Norman languages his study for the better under -