The Templar Reception.

If you be on duty abroad , and wish to be in the convent , you will be liable to beset to the lowest offices of our Order , perhaps to the oven , to attend the mill , the kitchen , or sent to mind to camels or the hogs ; nay , even to offices of grades inferior to these ... and much more difficult to undergo ... When you are ready to sit down to tableand may have a desire to eat be sent

, , you may away upon other business .... And lest you or we should have cause to repent of any thing which you may not have yet told us .... Behold here the Holy Gospel , and the sacred words of our Redeemer .... You will tell us the truth respecting such things as we shall demand of you .... for should you be guilty of falsehood , it might cause you to repent , and get you put out of the house , against which God preserve von .

First . We ask yon , if you possess a wife , whether wedded or betrothed to you ; because she holds a ri ght to claim you by authority of the holy church . If yoa should prevaricate on this head , she might to-morrow , after to-morrow , or at some future time , come and prove you to be her husband , and demand you from us by authority of the holy church . Then we should be obliged to divest you of the habit , and to load you with irons . Then you would be

compelled to labour with the slaves , and after having undergone a shameful pennanee , you would be taken by the wrist and delivered to your wife , and be for ever banished from our house . Second . If you have belonged to any other reli gious Order , or have made a promise to any ; for if such has been the case , and you conceal it from us , that order may hereafter demand as a brother then we should stri

you ; p you of the habit , make you endure the mortification of shame , and exclude you for ever from the society of our house . Third . If you have contracted a debt with any person in the world , and cannot discharge it yourself , or some friend for you , and hereafter have recourse to the alms of our house for to pay the same : your habit shall be taken off , you shall be turned out of doors , and banished from our society for ever .

Fourth , If you be not sound in body , and free from any secret infirmity or disease , and not in perfect health and vigour , just as you appear to us ... If you be blemished and attainted with any crime or dishonourable act , committed at any period heretofore , declare the same ; for if it be afterwards discovered , you shall be banished from our society . Fifth . If you have promisedor iven to bodwhateveror to a

, g any y , brother of our Order , any money or other gratification , for the purpose of obtaining his assistance and influence to have you admitted into our society , for this would be simony ... and you could not , if it were proven against you , remain in our house ; but would be for ever banished without hopes of return .

Finally . If you were servant to any man , and he should lay claim to you hereafter , ^ you should be given up and would forfeit your place in our house . But if the candidate be a nobleman , the last question shall be dispensed witk _ But he shall be asked if he be the son of a chevalier or of a lady ,... and if his parents be of a noble race , and if he be the offspring of a lawful marriage . Then he may be asked b of the memberschevalieror brother

y any , , sergeant , whether he be a priest , deacon , or subdeacon ; for if he be of any of these orders he will be excluded the house . If the candidate be for brother sergeant , he is to be asked if he hold the rank of chevalier . AVhether he be for brother chevalier or brother sergeant , he is to bo asked if he lie under any excommunication . Then he who presides iu the chapter shall ask the ancients of the house if

they have any thing further to demand ; and if they reply iu the negative , he shall then address the candidate iii this manner . Good brother , be careful , that to all the questions we have asked you , nothing has escaped you but the truth ; for if you have been guilty of a false-