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Chivalet,
Knights , Brother William de la More , the Grand Prior and head of the Order in England , expired in the Tower of London—with his last breath protesting the innocence of the Order . A sort of compromise was afterwards effected with the Templars in custody y and by repeating a form of confession and abjuration , drawn up by the bishop of London , they were reconciled to the church and released : and thus terminated the proceedings in
England . It appears that the influence brought to bear upon the weakminded Edward was too strong' for his resistance ; and his favourites craving the Knights' possessions , he at last suppressed the Order , and gave the estates of the Temple in London to Be Valence , earl of Pembroke , At his death , which occurred soon after , this property was granted to the youngdr Le Despenser , on whose attainder it
would have reverted to the Grown ; but the decree of the great council of Yienne , held in 1342 , made a general grant of all the Templars' possessions to the Knights of the Hospital of St . John . Edward III . complied witli the order of the council , and gave the Temple to the Hospitallers , the prior and brethren of which Order conveyed it , for £ 10 per annum , to a society of lawyers who emigrated from Thavies Inn .
The records of both the Orders , which were in the priory at Clerkenwell , were destroyed by Wat Tyler ' s mob , hence we are not in possession of the extent of the estates of the Order in England ; but the number of places bearing their name , as Temple Brewer , Temple Dynnesley , Temple Newsham , Temple Sowerby , & c . show
how widely they were spread . We may add that an ancestor of the recent prime minister , Yiscount Palmerston , adopted the surname Del Temple , in remembrance of a member of his family who had bestowed two manors upon the Knights Templar . In the Cotton MSS . in the British Museum is a list of the Grand Priors of England : they
are—R . de Pointou . | Robert Sanford . Roscellinus de Fossa . Amadeus de Morestello . Richard de Hastings . Himbert Peraut . Richard Mallebreach . Robert Turville . ' Geoffrey , son of Stephen . Guide de Foresta . ^ Thomas Berard . James de Molay ( afterwards Amaric de St . Maur . . Grand Master ) . Alan Marcel . Brian le Jay . Amharaldus . William de la More .
Robert Mounteford . | In Spain , Portugal , and Germany , the Templars were declared innocent of the crimes alleged against them ; and indeed nowhere ,
beyond the influence of the Pope and the King of France , was a Templar put to death . An impartial examination of the whole career of the Knights of the Temple enables us to declare that nothing can he found , up to the period of the process , against them , either in the chronicles of the east or those of the west , which can
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Chivalet,
Knights , Brother William de la More , the Grand Prior and head of the Order in England , expired in the Tower of London—with his last breath protesting the innocence of the Order . A sort of compromise was afterwards effected with the Templars in custody y and by repeating a form of confession and abjuration , drawn up by the bishop of London , they were reconciled to the church and released : and thus terminated the proceedings in
England . It appears that the influence brought to bear upon the weakminded Edward was too strong' for his resistance ; and his favourites craving the Knights' possessions , he at last suppressed the Order , and gave the estates of the Temple in London to Be Valence , earl of Pembroke , At his death , which occurred soon after , this property was granted to the youngdr Le Despenser , on whose attainder it
would have reverted to the Grown ; but the decree of the great council of Yienne , held in 1342 , made a general grant of all the Templars' possessions to the Knights of the Hospital of St . John . Edward III . complied witli the order of the council , and gave the Temple to the Hospitallers , the prior and brethren of which Order conveyed it , for £ 10 per annum , to a society of lawyers who emigrated from Thavies Inn .
The records of both the Orders , which were in the priory at Clerkenwell , were destroyed by Wat Tyler ' s mob , hence we are not in possession of the extent of the estates of the Order in England ; but the number of places bearing their name , as Temple Brewer , Temple Dynnesley , Temple Newsham , Temple Sowerby , & c . show
how widely they were spread . We may add that an ancestor of the recent prime minister , Yiscount Palmerston , adopted the surname Del Temple , in remembrance of a member of his family who had bestowed two manors upon the Knights Templar . In the Cotton MSS . in the British Museum is a list of the Grand Priors of England : they
are—R . de Pointou . | Robert Sanford . Roscellinus de Fossa . Amadeus de Morestello . Richard de Hastings . Himbert Peraut . Richard Mallebreach . Robert Turville . ' Geoffrey , son of Stephen . Guide de Foresta . ^ Thomas Berard . James de Molay ( afterwards Amaric de St . Maur . . Grand Master ) . Alan Marcel . Brian le Jay . Amharaldus . William de la More .
Robert Mounteford . | In Spain , Portugal , and Germany , the Templars were declared innocent of the crimes alleged against them ; and indeed nowhere ,
beyond the influence of the Pope and the King of France , was a Templar put to death . An impartial examination of the whole career of the Knights of the Temple enables us to declare that nothing can he found , up to the period of the process , against them , either in the chronicles of the east or those of the west , which can