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The Knights Templar.
from all parts of Christendom . Philip the Fair appeared in this august assembly , attended by his three sons and his two brothers , and a numerous body of troops . Clement laid before them the reasons for calling the Council . First : The affair of the Templars . Second : The recovery of the
Holy land . Lastly : The reformation of manners and the discipline of the Church . He caused the proceedings , carried on against the Templars in the different provinces , to be read in full council . After this he demanded of each of the fathers in his turn if he did not think it proper to
suppress an Order wherein were discovered such enormous crimes ? An Italian prelate , addz-essing hiznself to the Pope , jjressed him to abolish the Order without loss of time or further formality ; an Order against which , he said , above two thousand witnesses had deposed in various parts of Christendom .
But all the Bishops , and Archbishops , and most eminent Doctors of the Council unanimously represented to the Pope that , before he suppressed an illustrious Order , which , ever since the time of its foundation had rendered most important services to Christendom , they were of opinion that the Grand Master and chiefs of the Order ought to be heard in their OAVII defence , as justice required , and they themselves had so eaz-nestly z-equested in many petitions .
Historians say , that all the Italian Bishops , except one , were of this opinion , as were also those of Spain , Germany , Denmark , England , Scotland , and Ireland ; that all the prelates of France Avere of the same sentiment , except the Archbishops of Rheims , Sens , and Roan , * so that out of so many hundred Bishoj ) S and doctors there were only four
who were for the abolition of the Order , and who acted against the common principles of natural equity . The audience which the Council insisted on in favour of the Templars very much perjalexed the Pojoe . Six months were spent in conferences , and perhaps in secret negociations , to persuade the prelates
to dispense with the regular forms in a matter which seemed clear enough . But the fathers persisted in declaring that they could not condemn the accused Avithout an audience . The Poiae , seeing his
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The Knights Templar.
from all parts of Christendom . Philip the Fair appeared in this august assembly , attended by his three sons and his two brothers , and a numerous body of troops . Clement laid before them the reasons for calling the Council . First : The affair of the Templars . Second : The recovery of the
Holy land . Lastly : The reformation of manners and the discipline of the Church . He caused the proceedings , carried on against the Templars in the different provinces , to be read in full council . After this he demanded of each of the fathers in his turn if he did not think it proper to
suppress an Order wherein were discovered such enormous crimes ? An Italian prelate , addz-essing hiznself to the Pope , jjressed him to abolish the Order without loss of time or further formality ; an Order against which , he said , above two thousand witnesses had deposed in various parts of Christendom .
But all the Bishops , and Archbishops , and most eminent Doctors of the Council unanimously represented to the Pope that , before he suppressed an illustrious Order , which , ever since the time of its foundation had rendered most important services to Christendom , they were of opinion that the Grand Master and chiefs of the Order ought to be heard in their OAVII defence , as justice required , and they themselves had so eaz-nestly z-equested in many petitions .
Historians say , that all the Italian Bishops , except one , were of this opinion , as were also those of Spain , Germany , Denmark , England , Scotland , and Ireland ; that all the prelates of France Avere of the same sentiment , except the Archbishops of Rheims , Sens , and Roan , * so that out of so many hundred Bishoj ) S and doctors there were only four
who were for the abolition of the Order , and who acted against the common principles of natural equity . The audience which the Council insisted on in favour of the Templars very much perjalexed the Pojoe . Six months were spent in conferences , and perhaps in secret negociations , to persuade the prelates
to dispense with the regular forms in a matter which seemed clear enough . But the fathers persisted in declaring that they could not condemn the accused Avithout an audience . The Poiae , seeing his