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CHARLES G. ADDISON, ESQ. The history of the Knights Templars, Temple Church, and the Temple

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CHARLES G. ADDISON, ESQ.
The history of the Knights Templars, Temple Church, and the Temple
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discoveries made during the recent restoration—The Bacrariura—The marble piscina—The sacramental niches—The penitential cell—The ancient Chapel of St. Anne—Historical matters connected with the Temple Church—The holy relics anciently preserved therein—The interesting monumental remains . 2B9 CHAPTER XII. THE TEMPLE CHURCH. THE MONUMENTS or THB CRUSADEKS—The tomb and effigy of Sir Geoffrey de Magnaville, earl of Essex, and constable of the Tower—His life and death, and famous exploits—Of William Marshall, earl of Pembroke, Protector of England—Of the Lord de Roes—Of 'William and Gilbert Marsh&U, earls of Pembroke—Of William Plantagenet, fifth son of Henry the Third—The anxious desire manifested by king Henry the Third, queen Eleanor, and various persons of rank, to be buried in the Temple Church , 309 CHAPTER XIII. THE TEMPLE. Antiquities in the Temple—The history of the place subsequent to the dissolution of the order of the Knights Templars—The establishment of a society of lawyers in the Temple—The antiquity of this society—Its connexion with the antient society of the Knights Templars—An order of knights and eerving brethren established in the law—The degree oifrere serjen, or /rarer servient, borrowed from the antient Templars—The modern Templars divide themselves into the two societies of the Inner and Middle Temple . . . 343 CHAPTER XIV. THE TEMPLE. The Temple Garden—The erection of new buildings in the Temple—The dissolution of the order of the Hospital of Saint John—The law societies become lessees of the crown—The erection of the magnificent Middle Temple Hall— The conversion of the old hall into chambers—The grant of the inheritance


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