The chief house of the order for France, and also for Holland and the Netherlands, was the Temple at Paris, an extensive and magnificent structure, surrounded by a wall and a ditch. It extended over all that large space of ground, now covered with streets and buildings, which lies between the rue du Temple, the rue St. Croix, and the environs de la Verrerie, as far as the walls and the fossés of the port du Temple. It was ornamented with a great tower, flanked by four smaller towers, erected by the Knight Templar Brother Herbert, almoner to the king of France, and was one of the strongest edifices in the kingdom.[123] Many of the modern streets of Paris which now traverse the site of this interesting structure, preserve in the names given to them some memorial of the ancient Temple. For instance, _La rue du Temple_, _La rue des fossés du Temple_, _Boulevard du Temple_, _Faubourg du Temple_, _rue de Faubourg du Temple_, _Vieille rue du Temple_, &c. &c. All the houses of the Temple in Holland and the Netherlands were under the immediate jurisdiction of the Master of the Temple at Paris. The preceptories in these kingdoms were very numerous, and the property dependent upon them was of great value. Those most known are the preceptories of Treves and Dietrich on the Soure, the ruins of which last still remain; Coberne, on the left bank of the Moselle, a few miles from Coblentz; Belisch, Temple Spelé, Temple Rodt near Vianden, and the Temple at Luxembourg, where in the time of Broverus there existed considerable remains of the refectory, of the church, and of some stone walls covered with paintings; Templehuis near Ghent, the preceptory of Alphen, Braëckel, la maison de Slipes near Ostend, founded by the counts of Flanders; Temple Caestre near Mount Cassel; Villiers le Temple en Condros, between Liege and Huy; Vaillenpont, Walsberge, Haut Avenes near Arras; Temploux near Fleuru in the department of Namur; Vernoi in Hainault; Temple Dieu at Douai; Marles near Valenciennes; St. Symphonier near Mons, &c. &c.[124] In these countries, as well as in all parts of Europe wherever they were settled, the Templars possessed vast privileges and immunities, which were conceded to them by popes, kings, and princes. ENGLAND.--There were in bygone times the following preceptories of Knight Templars in the present kingdom of England. Aslakeby, Temple Bruere, Egle, Malteby, Mere, Wilketon, and Witham, in _Lincolnshire_. North Feriby, Temple Hurst, Temple Newsom, Pafflete, Flaxflete, and Ribstane, in _Yorkshire_. Temple Cumbe in _Somersetshire_. Ewell, Strode and Swingfield, near Dover, in _Kent_. Hadescoe, in _Norfolk_. Balsall and Warwick, in _Warwickshire_. Temple Rothley, in _Leicestershire_. Wilburgham Magna, Daney, and Dokesworth, in _Cambridgeshire_. Halston, in _Shropshire_. Temple Dynnesley, in _Hertfordshire_. Temple Cressing and Sutton, in _Essex_. Saddlescomb and Chapelay, in _Sussex_. Schepeley, in _Surrey_.