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The Knights Templar.
THE KNIGHTS TEMPLAR .
( Continued from page 192 . ) OINCE the Grand Master was in state of misery , and was utterly ^^ abandoned by the world ; since he was deprived of spiritual
succour , is it not manifest , that all this was the result of perseverance in his retraction ? Surely this will be no longer a matter of doubt . I thought proper to insist upon this point for the information of posterity rather than for the honour of the memory of Jacques de Molay ; for , even had he
made any lapses through human frailty , circumstanced as he was , enduring tortures , insults , hunger , chains , and confinement . Surely this Christian constancy , at the sight of a terrible death , ought to render his memory more illustrious . Now , as all that has hitherto been stated is merely illustrative of
facts , I proceed to give you an epitome of the Templars' tragical fate , with as many of the circumstances as the limits which I have prescribed myself will allow . It is not certainly known in what year Philip the Fair took the terrible resolution of ruining the Templars ; it only appears from
history that a citizen of Beziers , named Squin de Florian , and a Templar that had apostatized from the Order , having been ajjprehended for enormous crimes and committed to the same dungeon , those two villians despairing of life opened their minds to each other . Squin , hearing what the Templar had to say , called one of the King ' s officers ,
and told him that he had a secret to reveal which was of great importance , and that the King would receive more advantage from it than from the conquest of an entire kingdom ; but that he would never disclose it unless to the Kine- himself .
Othor historians ascribe this fact to a Templar , prior of Montfaucon , and to another knight of the same order , called Naffodei , who , for their impieties and infamous lives , had been both condemned to be immured for life by the Grand Master and Council of the Order . Whatever were the names of those two miscreants , Philip the Fair ,
at the instance of the one who desired to speak to him , and perhaps through impatience to know the secret which was to procure him such immense riches , sent for him to Paris . He resolved himself to hear
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
The Knights Templar.
THE KNIGHTS TEMPLAR .
( Continued from page 192 . ) OINCE the Grand Master was in state of misery , and was utterly ^^ abandoned by the world ; since he was deprived of spiritual
succour , is it not manifest , that all this was the result of perseverance in his retraction ? Surely this will be no longer a matter of doubt . I thought proper to insist upon this point for the information of posterity rather than for the honour of the memory of Jacques de Molay ; for , even had he
made any lapses through human frailty , circumstanced as he was , enduring tortures , insults , hunger , chains , and confinement . Surely this Christian constancy , at the sight of a terrible death , ought to render his memory more illustrious . Now , as all that has hitherto been stated is merely illustrative of
facts , I proceed to give you an epitome of the Templars' tragical fate , with as many of the circumstances as the limits which I have prescribed myself will allow . It is not certainly known in what year Philip the Fair took the terrible resolution of ruining the Templars ; it only appears from
history that a citizen of Beziers , named Squin de Florian , and a Templar that had apostatized from the Order , having been ajjprehended for enormous crimes and committed to the same dungeon , those two villians despairing of life opened their minds to each other . Squin , hearing what the Templar had to say , called one of the King ' s officers ,
and told him that he had a secret to reveal which was of great importance , and that the King would receive more advantage from it than from the conquest of an entire kingdom ; but that he would never disclose it unless to the Kine- himself .
Othor historians ascribe this fact to a Templar , prior of Montfaucon , and to another knight of the same order , called Naffodei , who , for their impieties and infamous lives , had been both condemned to be immured for life by the Grand Master and Council of the Order . Whatever were the names of those two miscreants , Philip the Fair ,
at the instance of the one who desired to speak to him , and perhaps through impatience to know the secret which was to procure him such immense riches , sent for him to Paris . He resolved himself to hear