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Fbeemasonry Illustrated.
a year , and dinne service to be celebrated within them - This bull was published , by the Pope ' s direction in England and Prance . The last-mentioned privilege brought the Templars in London into collision with the clergy , when England was laid under interdict in the reign of John ; all the services being regularly continued at the Temple church , to which the people flocked .
Ere long the society extended its scheme by admitting as members persons who were not knights or of noble birth ( which was essential to the Knights ) , who were termed serving Brethren ; they sometimes actedas servants or esquires of the Knights , thus participating in the advantages of belonging to so powerful a body . These afterwards were divided into two classes—the first being men of wealth or
station acting as esquires to the knights , and the other or poorer class exercising various handicrafts in the houses and lands belonging to the Order . The extensive structures they built must of necessity have required a considerable number of labourers or operative Masons . The Order also associated to itself many persons , under the designation of affiliated members , who neither took vows nor assumed the
dress , nor were subject to any duties , but purchased enrolment in the ranks of the soldiery of the Temple , for the sake of protection , and spiritual and temporal advantages . It is impossible in our limited space to detail the full history of the Knights Templar , as it would embrace a description of the wars of the Christians against the Saracens and Moslems of the east for
the whole time they lasted after the establishment of the Order ; we shall , therefore , only relate some of the more remarkable of their deeds during their heroic struggles to maintain the cross triumphant . Hugh de Payens went to Europe to lay the foundation of the Order , and returned to Palestine in 1129 , at the head of a valiant
band of Knights , principally from England and France . He assisted in many warlike enterprises by which the Christian territory was strengthened ; he died ^ a . d . 1136 , and was succeeded by the Lord Robert de Craon ; and in his time , in several battles , the Templars sustained great losses through the overpowering numbers of the Moslems , who captured the city of Edessa . Everard des Barres was the third Master , and ( 1146 ) , from the blood-red cross which was
then ordained to be worn , they were generally known by the name of " The Eed-cross Knights . " Des Barres , who was Prior of France at the time of his election , collected all the Brethren from the west , and joined the standard of Louis , the king of France , with his
crusaders , marching through Asia Minor for Palestine , The frugalitv , union , and disinterestedness of the Knights , as well as their attention to the state of their horses and accoutrements , so charmed Louis that he proposed them as models for his army ; and in a council of war ordered that the soldiers and officers should bind themselves in
confraternity with the Templars , and march under their direction . Louis also acknowledged the services of the Templars in a letter to his minister , Suger , the abbot of St . Denis . He says , " I cannot imagine how we could have subsisted but for their support and
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Fbeemasonry Illustrated.
a year , and dinne service to be celebrated within them - This bull was published , by the Pope ' s direction in England and Prance . The last-mentioned privilege brought the Templars in London into collision with the clergy , when England was laid under interdict in the reign of John ; all the services being regularly continued at the Temple church , to which the people flocked .
Ere long the society extended its scheme by admitting as members persons who were not knights or of noble birth ( which was essential to the Knights ) , who were termed serving Brethren ; they sometimes actedas servants or esquires of the Knights , thus participating in the advantages of belonging to so powerful a body . These afterwards were divided into two classes—the first being men of wealth or
station acting as esquires to the knights , and the other or poorer class exercising various handicrafts in the houses and lands belonging to the Order . The extensive structures they built must of necessity have required a considerable number of labourers or operative Masons . The Order also associated to itself many persons , under the designation of affiliated members , who neither took vows nor assumed the
dress , nor were subject to any duties , but purchased enrolment in the ranks of the soldiery of the Temple , for the sake of protection , and spiritual and temporal advantages . It is impossible in our limited space to detail the full history of the Knights Templar , as it would embrace a description of the wars of the Christians against the Saracens and Moslems of the east for
the whole time they lasted after the establishment of the Order ; we shall , therefore , only relate some of the more remarkable of their deeds during their heroic struggles to maintain the cross triumphant . Hugh de Payens went to Europe to lay the foundation of the Order , and returned to Palestine in 1129 , at the head of a valiant
band of Knights , principally from England and France . He assisted in many warlike enterprises by which the Christian territory was strengthened ; he died ^ a . d . 1136 , and was succeeded by the Lord Robert de Craon ; and in his time , in several battles , the Templars sustained great losses through the overpowering numbers of the Moslems , who captured the city of Edessa . Everard des Barres was the third Master , and ( 1146 ) , from the blood-red cross which was
then ordained to be worn , they were generally known by the name of " The Eed-cross Knights . " Des Barres , who was Prior of France at the time of his election , collected all the Brethren from the west , and joined the standard of Louis , the king of France , with his
crusaders , marching through Asia Minor for Palestine , The frugalitv , union , and disinterestedness of the Knights , as well as their attention to the state of their horses and accoutrements , so charmed Louis that he proposed them as models for his army ; and in a council of war ordered that the soldiers and officers should bind themselves in
confraternity with the Templars , and march under their direction . Louis also acknowledged the services of the Templars in a letter to his minister , Suger , the abbot of St . Denis . He says , " I cannot imagine how we could have subsisted but for their support and