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To The Editor.
TO THE EDITOR .
BROTHER JIVSKNIWril ON " THE TEMPLARS . " RESPECTED BROTHER . —Your learned correspondent Noachida Dahuadicus having given a sketch of the Templar Order , particularly as it existed in Ireland , I beg you will give room to the following gleanings from authors of great veracity , in your excellent Review . No history is so much enveloped in obscurity as that of tbe Templars , and no writers have more disgraced that name , than a great number of French
historians , and particularly the celebrated Sorbon , Doctor Alexander Natalis , Du Puy , and the great historian Daniel . They have , to save the honour of their avaricious King Philip IV ., called the fair , not for his fair acts , but owing to his fair person , given but one side of the history of the Order , which unfortunately is that which has been so eagerly believed by many unguarded readers , who , without further inquiry condemned the Order , simply upon the great reputation of those men as
historians . But as " audi alteram partem , " is the duty of every fair reasoner , I have greater confidence in the statements of contemporary writers , many of whom have been eye-witnesses to the foul transactions of the persecutors of the Templars , such as quoted by Renouard on the Order of the Templars , page 268 , who gives the testimony of St . Anthony ' who denied every charge against the Order . Another eyewitness , Johannes Villanus , who according to the Chronicon Astense by
Muzatori , most pointedly denies the wicked charges brought against the Templars , by the hired accusers Squin de Fluxion , late Grand Prior of iVIontf ' aucon and of Noffadei , Grand Prior of Florence , and many other Knights who had been expelled the Order for their irregular conduct , and served Philip as proper instruments for his inhuman designs against tlie . inuoceiit Templars . Amongst the most modern writers are the Minorit Herman , the Flemish historian Meiern , also that great friend to humanity Thomasiusand the great Polhistorian aud Christian
hi—, y p losopherLeibnitz , t who all most powerfully defend the Tem ]>] ars , and also as powerfully condemn their persecutors for their injustice and cruelty . Many modern authors , especially the French writers , in addition to the charges brought against the Templars , J give the confessions of some of the real Knights , in order to prove the accusations of those hirelings , but they cautiously omit the means by which the confessions were obtainedwhich howeverhave not escaped thc observation of
contempo-, , rary writers and eye-witnesses . The confessions of the real Kni ghts were extorted from them on the fatal rack , when under the most barbarous and excruciating tortures , which thay however most solemnl y denied in the midst of the flames , when by order of Philip they were cruelly bui nt in the Fauxbourg St . Anthoine in Paris , and cited that ¦ wicked King , and Pope Clement the V . § before the throne of God to answer for their unwarrantable conduct towards them .
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To The Editor.
TO THE EDITOR .
BROTHER JIVSKNIWril ON " THE TEMPLARS . " RESPECTED BROTHER . —Your learned correspondent Noachida Dahuadicus having given a sketch of the Templar Order , particularly as it existed in Ireland , I beg you will give room to the following gleanings from authors of great veracity , in your excellent Review . No history is so much enveloped in obscurity as that of tbe Templars , and no writers have more disgraced that name , than a great number of French
historians , and particularly the celebrated Sorbon , Doctor Alexander Natalis , Du Puy , and the great historian Daniel . They have , to save the honour of their avaricious King Philip IV ., called the fair , not for his fair acts , but owing to his fair person , given but one side of the history of the Order , which unfortunately is that which has been so eagerly believed by many unguarded readers , who , without further inquiry condemned the Order , simply upon the great reputation of those men as
historians . But as " audi alteram partem , " is the duty of every fair reasoner , I have greater confidence in the statements of contemporary writers , many of whom have been eye-witnesses to the foul transactions of the persecutors of the Templars , such as quoted by Renouard on the Order of the Templars , page 268 , who gives the testimony of St . Anthony ' who denied every charge against the Order . Another eyewitness , Johannes Villanus , who according to the Chronicon Astense by
Muzatori , most pointedly denies the wicked charges brought against the Templars , by the hired accusers Squin de Fluxion , late Grand Prior of iVIontf ' aucon and of Noffadei , Grand Prior of Florence , and many other Knights who had been expelled the Order for their irregular conduct , and served Philip as proper instruments for his inhuman designs against tlie . inuoceiit Templars . Amongst the most modern writers are the Minorit Herman , the Flemish historian Meiern , also that great friend to humanity Thomasiusand the great Polhistorian aud Christian
hi—, y p losopherLeibnitz , t who all most powerfully defend the Tem ]>] ars , and also as powerfully condemn their persecutors for their injustice and cruelty . Many modern authors , especially the French writers , in addition to the charges brought against the Templars , J give the confessions of some of the real Knights , in order to prove the accusations of those hirelings , but they cautiously omit the means by which the confessions were obtainedwhich howeverhave not escaped thc observation of
contempo-, , rary writers and eye-witnesses . The confessions of the real Kni ghts were extorted from them on the fatal rack , when under the most barbarous and excruciating tortures , which thay however most solemnl y denied in the midst of the flames , when by order of Philip they were cruelly bui nt in the Fauxbourg St . Anthoine in Paris , and cited that ¦ wicked King , and Pope Clement the V . § before the throne of God to answer for their unwarrantable conduct towards them .