. Social England; a record of the progress of the people in religion, laws, learning, arts, industry, commerce, science, literature and manners, from the earliest times to the present day . jects of a foreign master, wastypical of the approaching fate of the alien priories miderHenry V., of the dissolution of all monkery, brought aboutby much the same causes in Kome only do yeseek, says Glanvill: Rome onh* shall destroy you. Wesee you are but half our subjects, ran the sentence ofHenry VIII. Xow by seven witnesses it was proved against theEnglish Templars that the reception-rite was
. Social England; a record of the progress of the people in religion, laws, learning, arts, industry, commerce, science, literature and manners, from the earliest times to the present day . jects of a foreign master, wastypical of the approaching fate of the alien priories miderHenry V., of the dissolution of all monkery, brought aboutby much the same causes in Kome only do yeseek, says Glanvill: Rome onh* shall destroy you. Wesee you are but half our subjects, ran the sentence ofHenry VIII. Xow by seven witnesses it was proved against theEnglish Templars that the reception-rite was secret, by threemore that the secret could not be discussed among themselves. 36 THE cnXSOLIPATIOX OF THF. KiyGPOM. (1274 far less aiiKing ; tlmr others .swore tlicy were forbiililento confess save tn priests of their own Urder. Another hadheard of (hvadful sei-rets : in Syria they receive<l knights withblasphemy, s|)ittiiiL; un the (.russ ; some worshipped a cat-idol, a brazen head, a calf—others wrote and read that (hristdied, not for our sins, but for His own. One liohert of Uteringham, a Franciscan, had been atWesterby twenty years before, when the Templars were. A II i; IK .\ 1) i: u ci I I II i; fa i t ii . arranging some relics; lie had looktul through a ieilo in thewall and seen a bhize. >»e.\t day lie askcd a brother whatsaint they ; hi- turned pale : (.)u thy life, askno more. Anothi-r Tenijilar, on< liobcrt Itaysrr, had beenheard gruaning in the fields, -iliat eve: [ was burn to denyChrist and imld the licvil! Tliere was a stury of aTem[ilars little boy, asked b\ his father if he would join the THE CilUHCH ASD THE CROWN. 37 1348J Order, answering that he had seen a postuhxnt forced at theswords point to apostatise. At this the father murdered grandfather of one witness entered the Order in fullvigour, and in tluce ilays was dead: a certain Walter Savagehad likewise disappeared after two years; Adam de Heton
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