Sketch of the History of the Knights Templars: Second EditionBurnes, James
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Sketch of the History of the Knights Templars: Second Edition
Burnes, James
Templars -- History
L'orateur qui vient de retracer avec tant de talent, la carrière de
l'illustre Amiral, vous a signalé la restitution des cendres de
l'empereur Napoleon a la France, par le gouvernement Britannique, comme
un gage de la parfaite harmonie, heureusement rétablie entre les deux
nations. Je partage ce favourable augure, et tel fut le vœu le plus
intime de Sidney-Smith, qui ne cessa de répéter que la civilisation
du monde tenait essentiellement à l'alliance de la France et de
l'Angleterre.
A l'aspect des restes de Napoléon, traversant l'Océan pour recouvrer un
tombeau dans sa patrie, j'aime à prévoir que les restes de Sidney-Smith
seront pareillement réclamés par son gouvernement, et qu'à leur tour,
ils traverseront la mer, pour être déposés à Westminster, dans le lieu
consacré à la sépulture des rois et des reines, ainsi qu'à celle des
grands hommes de l'Angleterre.
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SKETCH OF THE HISTORY AND POSSESSIONS OF THE ORDER IN IRELAND.
The Order of Knights Templars was introduced into Ireland about the
year 1174, by Richard, surnamed Strongbow, Earl of Pembroke, or
Strigul. A Priory was founded by him in that year, under the invocation
of St. John the Baptist, at Kilmainham, in the County of Dublin, for
Knights Templars, (see Archdall's Monasticon Hibernicum, pages 222 et
seq.) and King Henry II. granted his confirmation. Hugh de Cloghall was
the first Prior, and enjoyed that office till about the year 1190. The
noble founder had enfeoffed the Prior in the whole lands of Kilmainham;
and dying in 1176, was interred in Christ Church. The two Orders
of Knights Templars and Hospitallers were confirmed the same year.
After this, Hugh Tirrel bestowed upon the Prior of this hospital the
lands of Chapel-Izod and Kilmehanock, "free from all secular services
and burthens, with all liberties and free customs, in wood and open
country, in meadows and pastures, in roads and paths," &c. &c.
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