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The Knights Templar.
THE KNIGHTS TEMPLAR .
( Concluded from page 256 . ) "OROTHER PIERRE DE BOLOGNAa priestand procurator-general
, - * -- * of the Order , represented to the commissioners that promises of impunity and threats of torture had been equally employed to obtain confessions of crimes imputed to his brethren ; that they had been told that their Order was already tacitly devoted to destruction , and that it
was to be solemnly abolished by the Pope in council . That letters patent , with the King ' s seal on them , had been shown to several prisoners , wherein , should they make confession , they were promised life , liberty , and a pension as long as they lived ; and such of the Templars as could not be seduced by those allurements had been constrained by violent
tortures . That it was much less astonishing that frail men , to save themselves from torments , should speak according to the wishes of those who tormented them , than it was to see such numbers of Templars endure with constancy the most dreadful tortures and afflictions , rather than betray the cause of truth . That many of those Knights died in dungeons of the tortures they had endured on the rack ; and he desired that the executioners and
jailors might be examined , and required to give an account of the sentiments in which they died ; and declare whether it was not true that they had persisted to the last gasp , when men have nothing more to hope for or to fear , in averring their own innocence and that of their Order in general . Then he besought the commissioners to summon
before them a Templar , called Brother Adam de Valincourt , who had passed from their Order to that of the Carthusians , out of a desire of greater perfection ; but not being able to support the austerities of those monks , had petitioned to be again admitted into the Order of the Templars . He added , that the superiors and brethren of that
Knig ht had looked upon his first change as apostacy : that they had obliged him , before they would receive him again , to present himself at the door of the Temple in a white sheet ; that after he resumed the the habit of the Order they had condemned him to eat upon the ground for a whole year ; to fast upon bread and water on Wednesdays and Fridays every week ; and to undergo the discipline every Sunday from the hands of the priest that officiated .
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The Knights Templar.
THE KNIGHTS TEMPLAR .
( Concluded from page 256 . ) "OROTHER PIERRE DE BOLOGNAa priestand procurator-general
, - * -- * of the Order , represented to the commissioners that promises of impunity and threats of torture had been equally employed to obtain confessions of crimes imputed to his brethren ; that they had been told that their Order was already tacitly devoted to destruction , and that it
was to be solemnly abolished by the Pope in council . That letters patent , with the King ' s seal on them , had been shown to several prisoners , wherein , should they make confession , they were promised life , liberty , and a pension as long as they lived ; and such of the Templars as could not be seduced by those allurements had been constrained by violent
tortures . That it was much less astonishing that frail men , to save themselves from torments , should speak according to the wishes of those who tormented them , than it was to see such numbers of Templars endure with constancy the most dreadful tortures and afflictions , rather than betray the cause of truth . That many of those Knights died in dungeons of the tortures they had endured on the rack ; and he desired that the executioners and
jailors might be examined , and required to give an account of the sentiments in which they died ; and declare whether it was not true that they had persisted to the last gasp , when men have nothing more to hope for or to fear , in averring their own innocence and that of their Order in general . Then he besought the commissioners to summon
before them a Templar , called Brother Adam de Valincourt , who had passed from their Order to that of the Carthusians , out of a desire of greater perfection ; but not being able to support the austerities of those monks , had petitioned to be again admitted into the Order of the Templars . He added , that the superiors and brethren of that
Knig ht had looked upon his first change as apostacy : that they had obliged him , before they would receive him again , to present himself at the door of the Temple in a white sheet ; that after he resumed the the habit of the Order they had condemned him to eat upon the ground for a whole year ; to fast upon bread and water on Wednesdays and Fridays every week ; and to undergo the discipline every Sunday from the hands of the priest that officiated .