the deceased knight was in prison, as he believes, for the space of J-m» m eight weeks ; that he was not buried in the habit of bis order, Α. η, 131Ό. and was interred without the cemetery of the brethren, because he was considered to be excommunicated, in pursuance, as he be lieved, of a rule or statute amoug the Templars, to the effect that every one who privily made away with the property of the order, and did not acknowledge his fault, was deemed excommunicated. Being asked in what respect he considered that his order re quired reformation, he replied, " By the establishment of a pro bation of one year, and by making the receptions public." Two other Templars were examined on the same 27th day of January, from whose depositions it appears that there were at that time many brethren of the order, natives of England, in the island of Cyprus. On the 29th of January, the inqnisitors exhibited twenty-four fresh articles against the prisoners, drawn up in an artful manner. They were asked if they knew anything of the crimes mentioned in the papal bulls, and confessed by the Grand Master, the heads of the order, and many knights in France ; and whether they knew of anything sinful or dishonourable against the Master of the Temple in England, or the preceptors, or any of the brethren. They were then required to say whether the same rules, customs, and observances did not prevail throughout the entire order; whether the Grand Preceptors, and especially the Grand Preceptor of England, did not receive all the observances and regulations from the Grand Master; and whether the Grand Preceptors and all the brethren of the order in England did not observe them in the same mode as the Grand Master, and visitors, and the brethren in Cyprus and in Italy, and iu the other kingdoms, provinces, and preceptories of the order ; whether the observances and regulations were not commonly delivered by the visitors to the Grand Preceptor of England ; and