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Notitiae Templariae.
CASTILE AND LEON formed another grand division or province of the Order in Spain . Campomanes specifies twenty-four preceptories or temple-houses in this kingdom , most of them endowed with lands and privileges . These were at Faro , Amotira , Goya , St . Felix , Canabol , Meya , Villapalma , Mayorga , St . Maria , Villa Sirga , Villardig , Sasines , AlcanadraCaravacaCapellaVillalpaldoSan PedroZamoraMedina
, , , , , , de Luitosas , Salamanca , Alconcitrar , Texares , Ciudad Rodrigo , and Valentia del Ventoso . Though in Castile the Templars had been pronounced innocent , their property was confiscated by the crown , and part applied to the support of the other Castilian Orders in carrying on their wars with the Moors . PILGRIM .
Miscellanea Templaria.
MISCELLANEA TEMPLARIA .
THE TEMPLE CHURCH , LONDON . —The following information appeared in a paper of August last : — " On Wednesday week all the interior fittings of the Temple Church , London , were sold by private contract . 1 he elaborately carved pulpit , the magnificent organ screen , and the grand altar-piece , each of which had for years been ' the admiration ot visitors , were said to be purchased at the large price of 1200 guineas , to be placed in the Christian church at Jerusalemthe
now erecting - % ! ur . , i , urch havin K been built after a model of the Holy C hurch b y the Knights Templars on their return from the crusade against the Infidel . ° Surely this was very bad taste , to say the least of it . Perhaps some correspondent will inform us to what Christian church the act of modern Vandalism refers .
ORIGINAL HOUSE OF THE HOSPITALLERS AT PARIS .-A House of the llmghts of st . John of Jerusalem was established at Paris in 1171 in a vineyard called Clos Bruneau . This establishment , which took the name of bt . Jean de Latran , consisted of an enclosure which extended from the Place de Cambrai to the Rue de Noyers , and communicated with the Rue St . Jean de Beauvais . Within the enclosure were a church an old tower intended for the reception of il
pgrims proceeding to Jerusalem , and an irregular pile of conventual buildings surrounding a spacious court . This church contained a number of sepulchral sculptures . In tire choir was placed a tomb , erected during his life by Jacques de bouvre , Grand Prior of France , and in which bis bowels were deposited after death . This tomb was the work of Erancis Angier , and represented the prior reclining upon a sarcophagus of black marble , and supposed by a weeping child . It was removed to the Muse ' e des Monuniens * rancaisThere
. was also a monument to the memory of James Betimn of Balfour , Archbishop of Glasgow , and Ambassador to France from Scotland , who died in 1603 . —The Order of St . John of Malta being suppressed in 1792 , the convent of Paris was sold , and the church became used , not many years ago , as the warehouse of a cooper . — History of Paris . STANDARD OP THE KNIGHTS OF MALTA . —The Grand Standard of St . John is deposited within the walls of the Tower of London ; as also two field pieces of exquisite workmanshi p belonging to the Order . These ,
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Notitiae Templariae.
CASTILE AND LEON formed another grand division or province of the Order in Spain . Campomanes specifies twenty-four preceptories or temple-houses in this kingdom , most of them endowed with lands and privileges . These were at Faro , Amotira , Goya , St . Felix , Canabol , Meya , Villapalma , Mayorga , St . Maria , Villa Sirga , Villardig , Sasines , AlcanadraCaravacaCapellaVillalpaldoSan PedroZamoraMedina
, , , , , , de Luitosas , Salamanca , Alconcitrar , Texares , Ciudad Rodrigo , and Valentia del Ventoso . Though in Castile the Templars had been pronounced innocent , their property was confiscated by the crown , and part applied to the support of the other Castilian Orders in carrying on their wars with the Moors . PILGRIM .
Miscellanea Templaria.
MISCELLANEA TEMPLARIA .
THE TEMPLE CHURCH , LONDON . —The following information appeared in a paper of August last : — " On Wednesday week all the interior fittings of the Temple Church , London , were sold by private contract . 1 he elaborately carved pulpit , the magnificent organ screen , and the grand altar-piece , each of which had for years been ' the admiration ot visitors , were said to be purchased at the large price of 1200 guineas , to be placed in the Christian church at Jerusalemthe
now erecting - % ! ur . , i , urch havin K been built after a model of the Holy C hurch b y the Knights Templars on their return from the crusade against the Infidel . ° Surely this was very bad taste , to say the least of it . Perhaps some correspondent will inform us to what Christian church the act of modern Vandalism refers .
ORIGINAL HOUSE OF THE HOSPITALLERS AT PARIS .-A House of the llmghts of st . John of Jerusalem was established at Paris in 1171 in a vineyard called Clos Bruneau . This establishment , which took the name of bt . Jean de Latran , consisted of an enclosure which extended from the Place de Cambrai to the Rue de Noyers , and communicated with the Rue St . Jean de Beauvais . Within the enclosure were a church an old tower intended for the reception of il
pgrims proceeding to Jerusalem , and an irregular pile of conventual buildings surrounding a spacious court . This church contained a number of sepulchral sculptures . In tire choir was placed a tomb , erected during his life by Jacques de bouvre , Grand Prior of France , and in which bis bowels were deposited after death . This tomb was the work of Erancis Angier , and represented the prior reclining upon a sarcophagus of black marble , and supposed by a weeping child . It was removed to the Muse ' e des Monuniens * rancaisThere
. was also a monument to the memory of James Betimn of Balfour , Archbishop of Glasgow , and Ambassador to France from Scotland , who died in 1603 . —The Order of St . John of Malta being suppressed in 1792 , the convent of Paris was sold , and the church became used , not many years ago , as the warehouse of a cooper . — History of Paris . STANDARD OP THE KNIGHTS OF MALTA . —The Grand Standard of St . John is deposited within the walls of the Tower of London ; as also two field pieces of exquisite workmanshi p belonging to the Order . These ,