The Temple church . king by his will directed his body to beburied as follows :— I will that my body be buried in the churchof the blessed Edward at Westminster, there being no impediment,having formerly appointed my body to be buried in the New Tern- pie.* On the floor of The Round of the Temple Church, theoldest part of the existing fabric, repose the famous monumentaleffigies of secular warriors with their legs crossed in token thatthey had assumed the cross and taken the vow to march to thedefence of the christian faith in Palestine. These cross-leggedeffigies have consequently been termed
The Temple church . king by his will directed his body to beburied as follows :— I will that my body be buried in the churchof the blessed Edward at Westminster, there being no impediment,having formerly appointed my body to be buried in the New Tern- pie.* On the floor of The Round of the Temple Church, theoldest part of the existing fabric, repose the famous monumentaleffigies of secular warriors with their legs crossed in token thatthey had assumed the cross and taken the vow to march to thedefence of the christian faith in Palestine. These cross-leggedeffigies have consequently been termed the monuments of thecrusaders, and by some persons monuments of Knights Tem-plars. They are so singular and interesting that a separate chaptermust be devoted to the consideration of them, and of the curiousdiscoveries made during the recent excavations and researches inthe tombs beneath them. • Kx liegistr. Hosp. S. Joh. Jems, in Anglia, in Bib. Cotton, fol. 25 a. t lb. Nicholas, Testaments Vetusta, p. (i. 87. CHAPTER III. THE TEMPLE CHURCH. The monumental effigies in the Temple Church—The cross-legged knights—Inquiries concerningthem—Their connexion with the ancient order of the Temple—Excavations recently madebeneath the figures—Discovery of stone coffins and enormous skeletons clothed in sackcloth—Some account of the knights and warriors they were intended to commemorate—Sir Geoffreyde Magnaville carl of Essex and constable of the Tower—The earl of Pembroke the Protector—The Lord de Itos, &c. &c.—Ancient monuments of the Hospitallers in the Temple Church. • The knights are dust,And their good swords arc souls are with thesaints, we trust. The mail-clad monumental effigies reposing side by side on thepavement of the Round of the Temple Church, have been sup-posed to be monuments of Knights Templars, but this is not thecase. The Templars were always buried in the habit of their order,and are represented in it on their tombs. This habit wa
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