This epistle of the Abbot of Clairvaux had been circulated, and every other just and honest mean employed to conciliate the public favour for the Templars, when, on the 31st January, 1128, the Master, Hugh de Payens, appeared before the council of Troyes, consisting of the Archbishops of Rheims and Sens, ten bishops, and a number of abbots, among whom was St. Bernard himself, and presided over by the Cardinal of Albano, the papal legate. The Master having given an account of the principles and exploits of the Templars, the assembled fathers approved of the new order, and gave them a new rule, containing their own previous regulations, with several additions drawn from that of the Benedictines, and chiefly relating to spiritual matters. The validity of this rule was made to depend on the approbation of it by the Holy Father and by the Patriarch of Jerusalem, neither of whom hesitated to confirm it. By the direction of the Pope Honorius, the synod appointed a white mantle to be the distinguishing dress of the brethren of the Temple, that of those of the Hospital being black. This mantle was plain, without any cross, and such it remained till the pontificate of Pope Eugenius III., who, in 1146, appointed the Templars to wear a _red_ cross on the breast, as a symbol of the martyrdom to which they stood constantly exposed: the cross worn on their black mantles, by the knights of St. John, was, as we have seen[72], _white_. The order now assumed, or were assigned, a peculiar banner, formed of cloth, striped black and white, called in old French, _Bauseant_[73], which word became the battle-cry of the knights of the Temple, and often struck terror into the hearts of the infidels. It bore on it the ruddy cross of the order, and the pious and humble inscription, _Non nobis, Domine, non nobis, sed nomini tuo, da gloriam_, (Not to us, O Lord, not to us, but to thy name give the glory!) [Footnote 72: _See_ p. 187. Sir W. Scott describes his Templar in Ivanhoe, as wearing a white mantle with a _black_ cross of eight points. The original cross of the Hospitallers, we may observe, had not eight points. That of the order of Malta was of this form.] [Footnote 73: _Bauseant_, or _Bausant_, was, in old French, a piebald horse, or a horse marked white and black. Ducange, Roquefort. The word is still preserved with its original meaning in the Scotch dialect, in the form _Bawsent_: "His honest, sonsie, baws'nt face Aye gat him friends in ilka place," says Burns, describing the "ploughman's collie," in his tale of the "Twa Dogs;" and in the Glossary, Dr. Currie explains _Baws'nt_ as meaning "having a white stripe down the face." As, however, some notion of handsomeness or attractiveness of appearance seems to be involved in the epithet, _Bauseant_, or _Beauséant_, may possibly be merely an older form of the present French word, _Bienséant_.]