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Chivalet,
To the eternal disgrace of the tyrant , they were , at dusk the same evening :, burned to death by slow charcoal fires on the little island in the Seine , near to the spot where now stands the equestrian statue of Henri Quatre . The fate of Philip and his instrument Clement is not unworthy of notice . As if to mark the vengeance * of heaven , in about thirteen
months after the barbarous murder of De Molay , the Pope was hurried to the grave by dysentery , and the lring was shortly afterwards seized with a disease which baffled all medical skill , and he died the same year . Although the Pope had by a bull transferred the property of the Templars to the Hospitallers , they received but little ; the various sovereign princes in most instances retaining the possessions of the Knights in their own hands . Old Puller justlv says :- — "The chief
cause of the ruin of the Templars was their extraordinary wealth . As Naboth's vineyard was the ehiefest ground of his blasphemy ; and as , in England , Sir John Cornwall , Lord Panhope , said merrily , not he , but his stately house at Ampthill was guilty of high treason ;
so certainly their wealth was the principal-cause-. of . their overthrow . King Philip would never have taken away their lives , if he might have taken their lands without putting them to death ; but the mischief was , he could not get the honey without he burned the
bees . During the five years these vexatious proceedings were being carried On , Philip , the Pope , and other potentates , were in the actual receipt of the rents and revenues of the Order ; the treasuries were ransacked , and the ornaments , plate , and other valuables were , by these royal robbers , converted to their own use . When the hull was issued assigning the property of the Templars to the
Hospitallers , Philip asserted a claim upon their lands for the sum of two hundred thousand pounds , as expenses of the prosecution ; and after his death , his son demanded a further sum of sixty thousand pounds from the Hospitallers before he would surrender the lands to that
body . Voltaire says — "I know not what sums went into the hands of the Pope , but I see evidently that the charges of the cardinals and inquisitors delegated to conduct the process carried off an enormous amount of money . " We have only the holy pontiff ' s bare word that he received but a small portion of the plunder ; the best
authorities of the period make out a statement which would show that he participated very largely . Clement made very strenuous efforts to get the English properties into his hands , but King Edward II ., supported by his barons , resisted the Pope ' s orders , and proceeded to distribute the lands among his favourites . Edward , however , at last succumbed to
liome , and , in November , 1318 , granted all the property of the Templars to the Hospitallers . The nobles who , by virtue of the king ' s donation , were in possession of the estates , did not easily resign them ; in 1324 , therefore , an act of Parliament was passed which vested all the property late belonging to the Templars in the
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Chivalet,
To the eternal disgrace of the tyrant , they were , at dusk the same evening :, burned to death by slow charcoal fires on the little island in the Seine , near to the spot where now stands the equestrian statue of Henri Quatre . The fate of Philip and his instrument Clement is not unworthy of notice . As if to mark the vengeance * of heaven , in about thirteen
months after the barbarous murder of De Molay , the Pope was hurried to the grave by dysentery , and the lring was shortly afterwards seized with a disease which baffled all medical skill , and he died the same year . Although the Pope had by a bull transferred the property of the Templars to the Hospitallers , they received but little ; the various sovereign princes in most instances retaining the possessions of the Knights in their own hands . Old Puller justlv says :- — "The chief
cause of the ruin of the Templars was their extraordinary wealth . As Naboth's vineyard was the ehiefest ground of his blasphemy ; and as , in England , Sir John Cornwall , Lord Panhope , said merrily , not he , but his stately house at Ampthill was guilty of high treason ;
so certainly their wealth was the principal-cause-. of . their overthrow . King Philip would never have taken away their lives , if he might have taken their lands without putting them to death ; but the mischief was , he could not get the honey without he burned the
bees . During the five years these vexatious proceedings were being carried On , Philip , the Pope , and other potentates , were in the actual receipt of the rents and revenues of the Order ; the treasuries were ransacked , and the ornaments , plate , and other valuables were , by these royal robbers , converted to their own use . When the hull was issued assigning the property of the Templars to the
Hospitallers , Philip asserted a claim upon their lands for the sum of two hundred thousand pounds , as expenses of the prosecution ; and after his death , his son demanded a further sum of sixty thousand pounds from the Hospitallers before he would surrender the lands to that
body . Voltaire says — "I know not what sums went into the hands of the Pope , but I see evidently that the charges of the cardinals and inquisitors delegated to conduct the process carried off an enormous amount of money . " We have only the holy pontiff ' s bare word that he received but a small portion of the plunder ; the best
authorities of the period make out a statement which would show that he participated very largely . Clement made very strenuous efforts to get the English properties into his hands , but King Edward II ., supported by his barons , resisted the Pope ' s orders , and proceeded to distribute the lands among his favourites . Edward , however , at last succumbed to
liome , and , in November , 1318 , granted all the property of the Templars to the Hospitallers . The nobles who , by virtue of the king ' s donation , were in possession of the estates , did not easily resign them ; in 1324 , therefore , an act of Parliament was passed which vested all the property late belonging to the Templars in the