[140] Amplis autem possessionibus tam citra mare quam ultra ditati sunt in immensum, villas, civitates et oppida, ex quibus certam pecuniæ summam, pro defensione Terræ Sanctæ, summo eorum magistro cujus sedes principalis erat in Jerusalem, mittunt annuatim.--_Jac. de Vitr._ Hist. Hierosol. p. 1084. [141] Masculum pullum, si natus sit super terram domus, vendere non possunt sine licentiâ fratrum. Si filiam habent, dare non possunt sine licentiâ fratrum. Inquisitio terrarum, ut supr. fol. 18 a. [142] The Templars, by diverting the water, created a great nuisance. In A. D. 1290, the _Prior et fratres de Carmelo_ (the white friars) complained to the king in parliament of the putrid exhalations arising from the Fleet river, which were so powerful as to overcome all the frankincense burnt at their altar during divine service, and had occasioned the deaths of many of their brethren. They beg that the stench may be removed, lest they also should perish. The Friars preachers (black friars) and the bishop of Salisbury (whose house stood in Salisbury-court) made a similar complaint; as did also Henry Lacy, Earl of Lincoln, who alleges that the Templars (_ipsi de novo Templo_) had turned off the water of the river to their mills at Castle Baignard.--_Rot. Parl._ vol. i. p. 60, 200. [143] Ex cod. MS. in officio armorum, L. xvii. fol. 141 a. _Dugd._ Monast. Angl. ut sup. p. 838. _Tanner_, Notit. Monast. [144] _Dugd._ Baronage. Monast. Angl. p. 800 to 844. [145] Power to hold courts; [146] to impose and levy fines and amerciaments upon their tenants; [147] to buy and sell, or to hold a kind of market; [148] to judge and punish their villains and vassals; [149] to try thieves and malefactors belonging to their manors, and taken within the precincts thereof; [150] to judge foreign thieves taken within the said manors, &c. [151] Cart. 11. Hen. 3. M. 33. _Dugd._ Monast. p. 844. [152] Acta _Rymeri_, tom. i. p. 54, 298, 574, 575. [153] Page 431. [154] 13 Edward I. [155] 2 Inst. p. 432. [156] 2 Inst. p. 465. [157] Stat. Westr. 2, cap. 43, 13 Ed. I. [158] The title Master of the Temple was so generally applied to the superiors of the western provinces, that we find in the Greek of the lower empire, the words [Greek: Templou Maistôr]. _Ducange._ Gloss. [159] Also summus magister, magister generalis. [160] Concil. Mag. Brit. tom. ii. p. 335, 339, 340. Monast. Angl. p. 818. [161] Concil. Mag. Brit. tom. ii. p. 355, 356. [162] In cujus rei testimonium huic præsenti scripto indentato sigillum capituli nostri apposuimus. [163] MS. apud Belvoir. _Peck's_ MS. in Museo Britannico, vol. iv. p. 65. [164] _Nicholl's_ Hist. Leicestershire, vol. iii. pl. cxxvii. fig. 947, p. 943; vol. ii. pl. v. fig. 13. [165] Two of these visitors-general have been buried in the Temple Church. [166] Rot. claus. 49. H. III. m. xi. d. Acta _Rymeri_, tom. iii. p. 802. [167] L'histoire des Cisteaux, _Chrisost. Henriques_, p. 479.