[103] _Herbert_, Antiq. Inns of Court. [104] "Yea, and a part of that too," says Sir William Dugdale, in his _origines juridiciales_, as appears from the first grant thereof to Sir William Paget, Knight, Pat. ii. Edward VI. p. 2. [105] We read on many old charters and deeds, "Datum apud _vetus_ Templum Londoniæ." See an example, _Nichols'_ Leicestershire, vol. iii. p. 959; see also the account, in Matt. Par. and Hoveden, of the king's visit to Hugh bishop of Lincoln, who lay sick of a fever at the Old Temple, and died there, the 16th November, A. D. 1200. [106] Anno ab incarnatione Domini MCLXXXV. facta est ista inquisitio de terrarum donatoribus, et earum possessoribus, ecclesiarum scil. et molendinorum, et terrarum assisarum, et in dominico habitarum, et de redditibus assisis per Angliam, per fratrem Galfridum filium Stephani, quando ipse suscepit balliam de Anglia, qui summo studio prædicta inquirendo curam sollicitam exhibuit, ut majoris notitiæ posteris expressionem generaret, et pervicacibus omnimodam nocendi rescinderet facultatem. Ex. cod. MS. in Scacc. penes Remor. Regis. fol. i. a.; _Dugd._ Monast. Angl. vol. vi. part ii. p. 820. [107] Quorum res adeo crevit in immensum, ut hodie, trecentos in conventu habeant equites, albis chlamydibus indutos: exceptis fratribus, quorum pene infinitus est numerus. Possessiones autem, tam ultra quam citra mare, adeo dicuntur immensas habere, ut jam non sit in orbe christiano provincia quæ prædictis fratribus suorum portionem non contulerit, et regiis opulentiis pares hodie dicuntur habere copias.--_Will. Tyr._ lib. xii. cap. 7. [108] Dominus Baldwinus illustris memoriæ, Hierosolymorum rex quartus, Gazam munitissimam fratribus militiæ Templi donavit, _Will. Tyr._ lib. xx. cap. 21. Milites Templi Gazam antiquam Palæstinæ civitatem reædificant, et turribus eam muniunt, _Rob. de Monte_, appen. ad chron. Sig. p. 631. [109] _Marin. Sanut_, p. 221. _Bernard Thesaur._ p. 768. _Radulph Coggleshale_, p. 249. Hoveden, p. 636. Radulph de Diceto, ut sup. p. 623. Matt. Par. p. 142. Italia sacra, tom. iii. p. 407. [110] Tunc Julianus Dominus Sydonis vendidit Sydonem et Belfort Templariis, _Marin. Sanut_, cap. vi. p. 221. [111] Atlas _Marianus_, p. 156; Siciliæ Antiq., tom. iii. col. 1000. [112] Gallia christiana nova, tom. iii. col. 118; Probat. tom. ix. col. 1067, tom. x. col. 1292, tom. xi. col. 46; _Roccus Pyrrhus_, Sicil. Antiq. tom. iii. col. 1093, 4, 5, 6, 7, &c. [113] _Petrus Maria Campus_ Hist. Placent. part ii. n. 28; _Pauli M. Paciandi_ de cultu S. Johannis Bapt. Antiq. p. 297. [114] Description et delices d'Espagne, tom. iii. p. 259; Hist. Portugal, _La Clede_, tom. i. p. 200, 202, &c.; Hispania illustrata, tom. iii. p. 49. [115] Annales Minorum, tom. v. p. 247; tom. vi. p. 211, 218; tom. viii. p. 26, 27; tom. ix. p. 130, 141.--_Campomanes._ [116] _Marcæ_ Hispanicæ, col. 1291, 1292, 1304. Gall. christ. nov. tom. i. col. 195. _Mariana_, de. reb. Hisp. lib. ii. cap. 23.