"These are the articles upon which inquisition shall be made against the brethren of the military order of the Temple, &c. "1. That at their first reception into the order, or at some time afterwards, or as soon as an opportunity occurred, they were induced or admonished by those who had received them within the bosom of the fraternity, to deny Christ or Jesus, or the crucifixion, or at one time God, and at another time the blessed virgin, and sometimes all the saints. "2. That the brothers jointly did this. "3. That the greater part of them did it. "4. That they did it sometimes after their reception. "5. That the receivers told and instructed those that were received, that Christ was not the true God, or sometimes Jesus, or sometimes the person crucified. "6. That they told those they received that he was a false prophet. "7. That they said he had not suffered for the redemption of mankind, nor been crucified but for his own sins. "8. That neither the receiver nor the person received had any hope of obtaining salvation through him, and this they said to those they received, or something equivalent, or like it. "9. That they made those they received into the order spit upon the cross, or upon the sign or figure of the cross, or the image of Christ, though they that were received did sometimes spit aside. "10. That they caused the cross itself to be trampled under foot. "11. That the brethren themselves did sometimes trample on the same cross. "12. Item quod mingebant interdum, et alios mingere faciebant, super ipsam crucem, et hoc fecerunt aliquotiens in die veneris sanctâ!! "13. Item quod nonnulli eorum ipsâ die, vel alia septimanæ sanctæ pro conculcatione et minctione prædictis consueverunt convenire! "14. That they worshipped a cat which was placed in the midst of the congregation. "15. That they did these things in contempt of Christ and the orthodox faith. "16. That they did not believe the sacrament of the altar. "17. That some of them did not. "18. That the greater part did not. "19. That they believed not the other sacraments of the church. "20. That the priests of the order did not utter the words by which the body of Christ is consecrated in the canon of the mass. "21. That some of them did not. "22. That the greater part did not. "23. That those who received them enjoined the same. "24. That they believed, and so it was told them, that the Grand Master of the order could absolve them from their sins. "25. That the visitor could do so. "26. That the preceptors, of whom many were laymen, could do it. "27. That they in fact did do so. "28. That some of them did. "29. That the Grand Master confessed these things of himself, even before he was taken, in the presence of great persons. "30. That in receiving brothers into the order, or when about to receive them, or some time after having received them, the receivers and the persons received kissed one another on the mouth, the navel...!!