The Temple church . de Magnaville, constable of the Tower—His wars with kingStephen and miserable death before castle Burwell—His burial in the porch before the westdoorway of the Temple Church—The earl of Pembroke the Protector of England during theminority of king Henry the Third—His brilliant conduct in the field and in the cabinet—His death and burial in the Round Tower of the Temple Church—The burial by his side ofhis two sons, William and Gilbert, both earls of Pembroke and earl marshals of England—Their monumental effigies—The monumental effigy of the Lord de Ros—His grant of landto the
The Temple church . de Magnaville, constable of the Tower—His wars with kingStephen and miserable death before castle Burwell—His burial in the porch before the westdoorway of the Temple Church—The earl of Pembroke the Protector of England during theminority of king Henry the Third—His brilliant conduct in the field and in the cabinet—His death and burial in the Round Tower of the Temple Church—The burial by his side ofhis two sons, William and Gilbert, both earls of Pembroke and earl marshals of England—Their monumental effigies—The monumental effigy of the Lord de Ros—His grant of landto the Templars—The grant of his body for interment in the Temple Church—The discoveryof stone coffins in the porch—Ancient monuments erected in the Temple Church in the timeof the Knights Hospitallers of Saint John—Ancient seal of the custos of the order of theHospital found in the church—Explanation of some Latin inscriptions recently placed uponthe walls of the sacred edifice. - - - - . - 87. CHAPTER I. THE TEMPLE. The history of the Temple subsequent to the dissolution of the order of the Knights Templars. Those bricky towers,The which on Themmes brode aged back do rideWhere now the studious lawyers have their bowers;There whilom wont the Templer Knights to bide,Till they decayed thro pride. The proud and powerful Knights Templars were succeeded in theoccupation of the Temple by a body of learned lawyers, who tookpossession of the old Hall and tbe gloomy cells of the military monks,and converted the chief bouse of their order into the great and mostancient Common Law University in England. For more than fivecenturies the retreats of the religious warriors have been devoted tothe studious and eloquent pleaders of causes, a new kind of Tem-plars, who, as Fuller quaintly observes, now defend one Christianfrom another, as the old ones did Christians from Pagans. u 2 THE TEMPLE. This curious result was brought about in the following manner. Both before, and
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