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power with which the A knightly has endowed man . The motto of the Dutch has ever been Nil desperandum and undaunted by difficulties , which would overwhelm weaker souls , they have made their country unequalled as a home of the Industrial Arts .
The Knights Templars.
THE KNIGHTS TEMPLARS .
By ANTHONY ONEAL HAYE .
( Continued from page . 329 )
BOOK IV . —CHAPTER XVI .
Two Knights , however , did not imitate the illustrious example set them by their more courageous brethren . These were De Miliars and De Cuge . They recalled their recantations , and so saved their lives . They declared that life was
too precious to lose so foolishly ; but , they added afterwards , that when they saw their fifty-four brethren in the wagons which conveyed them to the field of St . Anthony to be burned , they were so horror-stricken that they said what was not true ,
and even avowed more than had been desired of them , and they did this on purpose to save themselves from a like punishment . But an act of still more senseless barbarity added to thel astonishment and horror of the
Parisians , and increased their detestation for the King ; for , not content with cruelly immolating the Templars , he ordered indignities to be offered to their dead . John de Tur , a Templar , had been
dead several years before the commencement of this history . He had proved himself a brave and valiant soldier , and , on account of his high reputation in the Order , had been appointed Grand Prior of France . He built the celebrated Tower in the
Temple Palace at Paris , where he resided , which was the finest ornament of the place . Some of the Knights in their depositions had accused him of participation in their crimes . This was sufficient to warrant a process against his memory .
He was declared guilty of several crimes , and his body was condemned to be burned . This was an infraction on the laws of the State , which declared that death made an end of all criminal suits when judgment had not been passed—a stronger reason ,
when a suit had not , during De Tnr ' s lifetime , commenced at all . Such was the hatred and blind fury of the King , that , following this judgment , he had the body of the Grand Prior exhumed , the
bones consigned to the flames and reduced to ashes * In all these proceedings , the two apostates ,, Squin cle Flexian and Noffo Dei , took a prominent part . They walked about the streets of Paris
with haughty heads and insolent manners , enjoying the benefits of the King , whose abject creatures they were , and rejoicing at the fate which had befallen those , who had expelled them from , the Order . But the Parisans , although obliged by
fear to treat them with civility , held them ia detestation , more especially after the dying protestations of the Templars who had been burned in the field of St . Anthonyf The sentence of the Council , which had
discharged the Templars from theiiyvows and engagements , made known the design entertained of now abolishing the Order . The King " , as we have
already shewn , had been impressed with the importance of establishing a Royal Order , as an appanage of the French throne , and he considered the time had now come for bringing the subject before the Pope . For this purpose , on the 12 th
May , he wrote a long letter to his holiness , iu which , he stated that the crimes of the Templars having been proved by legal process , the Pontiff and his Council could not but exterminate them , abolish the Order , and create a new one , to whom
all their goods and privileges should be granted , He , however , added , that if this scheme was not agreeable to his Holiness , the wealth might be adjudged to an ancient Order of a similar character ; and he engaged Lo execute in his kingdom the
decrees of the Councils in the matter , but always excepting his own rights , and those of the prelates and lords of France .
The Pope did not give any answer relative to the extermination of the Templars , as the Provincial Councils had already done that by their sentence . He did not approve of the creation of a new Order , which would be an engine of tho
Court of France , and not a body friendly to tha Papacy . He sent an order to the Council regarding the disposal of the Templars' goods to an Order already in existence . Although the Pope and tho King pretended to take no interest in the disposal
of these goods , nor to profit by them , they were not inattentive to the use which was made of the possessions and revenues . The Pope , on the 12 th May , being at Avignon , issued a Bull , whick
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Chips Of Foreign Ashlar.
power with which the A knightly has endowed man . The motto of the Dutch has ever been Nil desperandum and undaunted by difficulties , which would overwhelm weaker souls , they have made their country unequalled as a home of the Industrial Arts .
The Knights Templars.
THE KNIGHTS TEMPLARS .
By ANTHONY ONEAL HAYE .
( Continued from page . 329 )
BOOK IV . —CHAPTER XVI .
Two Knights , however , did not imitate the illustrious example set them by their more courageous brethren . These were De Miliars and De Cuge . They recalled their recantations , and so saved their lives . They declared that life was
too precious to lose so foolishly ; but , they added afterwards , that when they saw their fifty-four brethren in the wagons which conveyed them to the field of St . Anthony to be burned , they were so horror-stricken that they said what was not true ,
and even avowed more than had been desired of them , and they did this on purpose to save themselves from a like punishment . But an act of still more senseless barbarity added to thel astonishment and horror of the
Parisians , and increased their detestation for the King ; for , not content with cruelly immolating the Templars , he ordered indignities to be offered to their dead . John de Tur , a Templar , had been
dead several years before the commencement of this history . He had proved himself a brave and valiant soldier , and , on account of his high reputation in the Order , had been appointed Grand Prior of France . He built the celebrated Tower in the
Temple Palace at Paris , where he resided , which was the finest ornament of the place . Some of the Knights in their depositions had accused him of participation in their crimes . This was sufficient to warrant a process against his memory .
He was declared guilty of several crimes , and his body was condemned to be burned . This was an infraction on the laws of the State , which declared that death made an end of all criminal suits when judgment had not been passed—a stronger reason ,
when a suit had not , during De Tnr ' s lifetime , commenced at all . Such was the hatred and blind fury of the King , that , following this judgment , he had the body of the Grand Prior exhumed , the
bones consigned to the flames and reduced to ashes * In all these proceedings , the two apostates ,, Squin cle Flexian and Noffo Dei , took a prominent part . They walked about the streets of Paris
with haughty heads and insolent manners , enjoying the benefits of the King , whose abject creatures they were , and rejoicing at the fate which had befallen those , who had expelled them from , the Order . But the Parisans , although obliged by
fear to treat them with civility , held them ia detestation , more especially after the dying protestations of the Templars who had been burned in the field of St . Anthonyf The sentence of the Council , which had
discharged the Templars from theiiyvows and engagements , made known the design entertained of now abolishing the Order . The King " , as we have
already shewn , had been impressed with the importance of establishing a Royal Order , as an appanage of the French throne , and he considered the time had now come for bringing the subject before the Pope . For this purpose , on the 12 th
May , he wrote a long letter to his holiness , iu which , he stated that the crimes of the Templars having been proved by legal process , the Pontiff and his Council could not but exterminate them , abolish the Order , and create a new one , to whom
all their goods and privileges should be granted , He , however , added , that if this scheme was not agreeable to his Holiness , the wealth might be adjudged to an ancient Order of a similar character ; and he engaged Lo execute in his kingdom the
decrees of the Councils in the matter , but always excepting his own rights , and those of the prelates and lords of France .
The Pope did not give any answer relative to the extermination of the Templars , as the Provincial Councils had already done that by their sentence . He did not approve of the creation of a new Order , which would be an engine of tho
Court of France , and not a body friendly to tha Papacy . He sent an order to the Council regarding the disposal of the Templars' goods to an Order already in existence . Although the Pope and tho King pretended to take no interest in the disposal
of these goods , nor to profit by them , they were not inattentive to the use which was made of the possessions and revenues . The Pope , on the 12 th May , being at Avignon , issued a Bull , whick