-
Articles/Ads
Article THE KNIGHTS TEMPLAR. ← Page 5 of 6 →
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
The Knights Templar.
Master , supported by all the circumstances that I have produced respecting the frustration of his interview with the ~ -Pope , would perhaps suffice to convince an unbiassed person that either the cardinals had attested a falsehood , or , Avhat is perhaps more likely , that the agents of Philip the Fair caused other Templars to personate these chiefs ,
a thing quite feasible , the Grand Master probably not being known by the cardinals , not understanding the Latin tongue , in Avhich the proceedings were carried on , * and the customs of those times not requiring the signature of the accused . But I find it proven elsewhere in an authentic and incontestible
manner , that the Grand Master made no confession at Chinon . Severals bulls addressed by the Pope to different kings , princes , and prelates , and which announce the pretended confessions made by the Grand Master at Chinon , are dated 2 nd of the Ides , a date corresponding with the 12 th of August .
In all these bulls Clement V . speaks of the interrogatory Avhich he supposes to have been previously made by the Cardinal ' s apostolic commissioners ; and he dares to avail himself of the confessions of the Grand Master and other chiefs of the Order , for to prejudice the public opinion against the unfortunate Templars .
Nothing more certain than that at that period of the 12 th of August , it was impossible for the Pope to announce those confessions ; because by the letter Avritten by the apostolic commissioners to the King , they attest that , on the Saturday after the feast of the Assumption ( 15 of August ) they heard the confessions of some of the chiefs
of the Order , and on the Sunday following , the Grand Master ' s confession . The commissioners add , that on the ensuing Monday and Tuesday they again examined Hugh de Peraldo and the Grand Master . This letter to the King was dated on the same day , the Tuesday
after the Assumption . It is then evident that , on the 12 th of August , the Pope announced the confessions of the Grand Master , and other chiefs , even before they had been interrogated . This contradiction is so striking , and so manifest , that there is no way of explaining it , unless by allowing such interrogatory never took place ; and that the falsehoods , whereby both the King and the Pope
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
The Knights Templar.
Master , supported by all the circumstances that I have produced respecting the frustration of his interview with the ~ -Pope , would perhaps suffice to convince an unbiassed person that either the cardinals had attested a falsehood , or , Avhat is perhaps more likely , that the agents of Philip the Fair caused other Templars to personate these chiefs ,
a thing quite feasible , the Grand Master probably not being known by the cardinals , not understanding the Latin tongue , in Avhich the proceedings were carried on , * and the customs of those times not requiring the signature of the accused . But I find it proven elsewhere in an authentic and incontestible
manner , that the Grand Master made no confession at Chinon . Severals bulls addressed by the Pope to different kings , princes , and prelates , and which announce the pretended confessions made by the Grand Master at Chinon , are dated 2 nd of the Ides , a date corresponding with the 12 th of August .
In all these bulls Clement V . speaks of the interrogatory Avhich he supposes to have been previously made by the Cardinal ' s apostolic commissioners ; and he dares to avail himself of the confessions of the Grand Master and other chiefs of the Order , for to prejudice the public opinion against the unfortunate Templars .
Nothing more certain than that at that period of the 12 th of August , it was impossible for the Pope to announce those confessions ; because by the letter Avritten by the apostolic commissioners to the King , they attest that , on the Saturday after the feast of the Assumption ( 15 of August ) they heard the confessions of some of the chiefs
of the Order , and on the Sunday following , the Grand Master ' s confession . The commissioners add , that on the ensuing Monday and Tuesday they again examined Hugh de Peraldo and the Grand Master . This letter to the King was dated on the same day , the Tuesday
after the Assumption . It is then evident that , on the 12 th of August , the Pope announced the confessions of the Grand Master , and other chiefs , even before they had been interrogated . This contradiction is so striking , and so manifest , that there is no way of explaining it , unless by allowing such interrogatory never took place ; and that the falsehoods , whereby both the King and the Pope