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Notitiae Templariae.
The Kings of England kept much of their treasury in the Temple at London . In the year 1213 , we find King John demanding 20 , 000 marks , which he had committed to the safe keeping of the Knights . Some idea of the vast extent of the French metropolitan priory may be formed from the fact , that it could contain as many troops as would make an army : — " In eodem veteri templo a _ dificia sunt cuidam numeroso exercitui sufficientia ac competuitia ; quia cum Templarii omnes
cismontani temporibus ac terminis suis ad generale eorum capitulum conveniunt , hospitia ibidem inveniunt competentia . " — { MathewParis . ) When Henry III . of England visited Louis IX . of France , in 1254 , he took up his quarters at the House of the Temple in Paris , because , according to the chronicler , he had with him a numerous retinue . Henry , perhaps , also had a predeliction for the society of the Knights , having been himself educated in the Temple at London . And nowhere
were Monarchs more sumptuously treated than within the castellated convents of this poor military Brotherhood . Of the architectural details of the building at Paris we have no particular account ; it probably consisted of a variety of structures raised at different periods . Independent of the additions and alterations made by the Knights Hospitallers of St . John , after their succession to the Templar possessionsthere is only one part of the building that has
, survived down to the present century ; and this was the very last work of the Order before their downfall . In 1306 , previous to the arrival of the Grand Master from Cyprus—and probably in consequence of the contemplated transfer of the Grand Chapter to Paris as their permanent head quarters—the Prior Jean-la-Turc undertook the erection of a large
addition to the Parisian Temple . Phis consisted of a lofty square tower , flanked by four round toivers , ivith an adjacent building to the north side , surmounted by two turrets . Inside of the battlements of the great tower there ran a gallery all round , which commanded an extensive prospect . This tower contained four stories , in each of which was an apartment of thirty feet square ; there were also three lesser chambers in three of theJround towers ; the fourth contained a very fine staircase , which led to the different apartments . The walls of the central keep
were nine feet in thickness , and the entire structure was of freestone . Such was the origin of the Tower of the Temple , a name no less memorable in latter than in former times . Here the noble De Molay was suddenly arrested , a prisoner in his own palace , from which he was to go forth only to suffer torture and expire on the blazing pile . Here the unfortunate Louis XVI . and his family were confined before being brought out to die on the scaffold . And within the same walls the
chivalrous Sir Sydney Smith endured a protracted imprisonment , through the vindictive policy of Buonaparte . Nothing now remains of this too celebrated tower ; but there seems to hang some mystery as to the time and mode of its removal . " The celebrated old tower disappeared in 1811 , " briefly remarks the author of an historical account of Paris , in three volumes , in 1825 . The biographer of Sir Sydney Smith gives the following version : —Sir Sdney had
y inscribed certain singular sentences on the window-shutter of his chamber in the Temple , addressed , "Sydney Smith to Buonaparte , " and which lines contained a prophecy that the latter should one day experience reverses , and occupy the same cell as the former . "These lines having appeared in the Parisian papers in 1799 , and having been put into Buonaparte ' s hands at Cairo , on his return from his unsuccess-
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Notitiae Templariae.
The Kings of England kept much of their treasury in the Temple at London . In the year 1213 , we find King John demanding 20 , 000 marks , which he had committed to the safe keeping of the Knights . Some idea of the vast extent of the French metropolitan priory may be formed from the fact , that it could contain as many troops as would make an army : — " In eodem veteri templo a _ dificia sunt cuidam numeroso exercitui sufficientia ac competuitia ; quia cum Templarii omnes
cismontani temporibus ac terminis suis ad generale eorum capitulum conveniunt , hospitia ibidem inveniunt competentia . " — { MathewParis . ) When Henry III . of England visited Louis IX . of France , in 1254 , he took up his quarters at the House of the Temple in Paris , because , according to the chronicler , he had with him a numerous retinue . Henry , perhaps , also had a predeliction for the society of the Knights , having been himself educated in the Temple at London . And nowhere
were Monarchs more sumptuously treated than within the castellated convents of this poor military Brotherhood . Of the architectural details of the building at Paris we have no particular account ; it probably consisted of a variety of structures raised at different periods . Independent of the additions and alterations made by the Knights Hospitallers of St . John , after their succession to the Templar possessionsthere is only one part of the building that has
, survived down to the present century ; and this was the very last work of the Order before their downfall . In 1306 , previous to the arrival of the Grand Master from Cyprus—and probably in consequence of the contemplated transfer of the Grand Chapter to Paris as their permanent head quarters—the Prior Jean-la-Turc undertook the erection of a large
addition to the Parisian Temple . Phis consisted of a lofty square tower , flanked by four round toivers , ivith an adjacent building to the north side , surmounted by two turrets . Inside of the battlements of the great tower there ran a gallery all round , which commanded an extensive prospect . This tower contained four stories , in each of which was an apartment of thirty feet square ; there were also three lesser chambers in three of theJround towers ; the fourth contained a very fine staircase , which led to the different apartments . The walls of the central keep
were nine feet in thickness , and the entire structure was of freestone . Such was the origin of the Tower of the Temple , a name no less memorable in latter than in former times . Here the noble De Molay was suddenly arrested , a prisoner in his own palace , from which he was to go forth only to suffer torture and expire on the blazing pile . Here the unfortunate Louis XVI . and his family were confined before being brought out to die on the scaffold . And within the same walls the
chivalrous Sir Sydney Smith endured a protracted imprisonment , through the vindictive policy of Buonaparte . Nothing now remains of this too celebrated tower ; but there seems to hang some mystery as to the time and mode of its removal . " The celebrated old tower disappeared in 1811 , " briefly remarks the author of an historical account of Paris , in three volumes , in 1825 . The biographer of Sir Sydney Smith gives the following version : —Sir Sdney had
y inscribed certain singular sentences on the window-shutter of his chamber in the Temple , addressed , "Sydney Smith to Buonaparte , " and which lines contained a prophecy that the latter should one day experience reverses , and occupy the same cell as the former . "These lines having appeared in the Parisian papers in 1799 , and having been put into Buonaparte ' s hands at Cairo , on his return from his unsuccess-