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The Knights Templar.
endeavours fruitless , at last exclaimed , that since they could not give a judicial sentence against the Templars without passing through the regular forms , the plenitude of the Papal authority should supply every defect , and he would condemn them in a summary way , rather than offend his dear son , the King of France . *
Accordinly the Pope , on May 22 nd , 1312 , having first secured the approbation of some Cardinals and Bishops , who through complaisance came over to his side of the question , convoked the second session of the Council , and abolished the Order of the Templars . f Now comes the last act of the tragedy . In the year 1313 , in which
the fate of the Grand Master and the dignitaries of the Order , styled the Great Preceptors , or the Great Commanders , was to be decided . The Pope had reserved the cognizance of their case to himself , and in consideration of their confession had promised them an entire impunity . But on his return from the Council , whether he had changed
his sentiments or intended not to condemn them himself , he appointed two Cardinals to sit as judges upon them . They repaired to Paris , and took for their co-assessors there the Archbishop of Sens and other prelates of the Gallician church .
Those commissioners of the Pope ordered the provost to bring before them Jacques de Molay , Grand Master of the Templars , "a dignity , " says M . Dupuy , " which placed him in a rank with princes , having in that quality had the honour of being sponsor to Robert , fourth son of Philip the Fair . "
The second of those prisoners was Guy , brother to the Dauphin de Viennois , Sovereign Prince of Dauphiny . The third victim was Hugh de Peraldo , great prior or visitor of the priory of France . And the fourth was the great prior of Aquitain , who before his imprisonment had the management of the King ' s exchequer and
revenues . It nowhere appears from the instrument and records of this memorable prosecution , that those prelates examined or interrogated them anew , or that they confronted them with witnesses . So it appears that the commissioners were resolved to conform themselves to the conduct which the Pope had observed before them . They contented
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The Knights Templar.
endeavours fruitless , at last exclaimed , that since they could not give a judicial sentence against the Templars without passing through the regular forms , the plenitude of the Papal authority should supply every defect , and he would condemn them in a summary way , rather than offend his dear son , the King of France . *
Accordinly the Pope , on May 22 nd , 1312 , having first secured the approbation of some Cardinals and Bishops , who through complaisance came over to his side of the question , convoked the second session of the Council , and abolished the Order of the Templars . f Now comes the last act of the tragedy . In the year 1313 , in which
the fate of the Grand Master and the dignitaries of the Order , styled the Great Preceptors , or the Great Commanders , was to be decided . The Pope had reserved the cognizance of their case to himself , and in consideration of their confession had promised them an entire impunity . But on his return from the Council , whether he had changed
his sentiments or intended not to condemn them himself , he appointed two Cardinals to sit as judges upon them . They repaired to Paris , and took for their co-assessors there the Archbishop of Sens and other prelates of the Gallician church .
Those commissioners of the Pope ordered the provost to bring before them Jacques de Molay , Grand Master of the Templars , "a dignity , " says M . Dupuy , " which placed him in a rank with princes , having in that quality had the honour of being sponsor to Robert , fourth son of Philip the Fair . "
The second of those prisoners was Guy , brother to the Dauphin de Viennois , Sovereign Prince of Dauphiny . The third victim was Hugh de Peraldo , great prior or visitor of the priory of France . And the fourth was the great prior of Aquitain , who before his imprisonment had the management of the King ' s exchequer and
revenues . It nowhere appears from the instrument and records of this memorable prosecution , that those prelates examined or interrogated them anew , or that they confronted them with witnesses . So it appears that the commissioners were resolved to conform themselves to the conduct which the Pope had observed before them . They contented