The cloisters of the Templars formed the medium of communication between the halls, of the church, and the cells of the serving brethren of the order. During the formation of the present new entrance into the Temple, by the church, at the bottom of the Inner Temple lane, a considerable portion of the brickwork of the old houses was pulled down, and an ancient wall of great thickness was disclosed. It was composed of chalk, ragstone, and rubble, exactly resembling the walls of the church. It ran in a direction east and west, and appeared to have formed the extreme northern boundary of the old convent. The exact site of the remaining buildings of the ancient Temple cannot now be determined with certainty. Among the many interesting objects to be seen in the ancient church of the Knights Templars which still exists in a wonderful state of preservation, is the PENITENTIAL CELL, a dreary place of solitary confinement formed within the thick wall of the building, only four feet six inches long and two feet six inches wide, so narrow and small that a grown person cannot lie down within it.[187] In this narrow prison the disobedient brethren of the ancient Templars were temporarily confined in chains and fetters, “in order that their souls might be saved from the eternal prison of hell.” The hinges and catch of a door firmly attached to the doorway of this dreary chamber still remain, and at the bottom of the staircase is a stone recess or cupboard, where bread and water were placed for the prisoner. In this cell Brother Walter le Bachelor, Knight, Grand Preceptor of Ireland, is said to have been starved to death. THE END. LONDON: G. J. PALMER, SAVOY STREET, STRAND. FOOTNOTES: [1] _Will. Tyr._ lib. i. cap. 2, lib. viii. cap. 3. _Jac. de Vitr. Hist. Hierosol._ cap. lxii. p. 1080. _D’Herbelot Bib. Orient._ p. 270, 687, ed. 1697. [2] _Procopius_ de ædificiis Justiniani, lib. 5. [3] _Will. Tyr._ lib. xii. cap. 7, lib. viii. cap. 3. _Hist. Orient. Jac. de Vitr. apud Thesaur. Nov. Anecd. Martene_, tom. iii. col. 277. _Phocæ descript. Terr. Sanct._ cap. 14, col. 1653. [4] _Chrysost. Henriq. de Priv. Cist._ p. 477. [5] See also Hoveden apud X script. page 479. Hen. Hunting. ib. page 384. [6] _Will. Tyr._ lib. xiii. cap. 26; _Anselmus_, lib. iii. epistolarum, epist. 43, 63, 66, 67. [7] _Reg. Cart. S. Joh. Jerus. in Bib. Cotton. Nero E. b._ No. xx. fo. 118. [8] _Odo de Diogilo de Ludov._ vii. _profectione in Orientem_, p. 67. [9] _Duchesne hist. franc. scrip._ tom. iv. p. 512; epist. 58, 59. [10] _Dugd. Monast._ vol. vii. p. 838; vol. ii. p. 820, 843, ed. 1830. Baronage, tom. i. p. 122. [11] _Will. Tyr._ lib. xvii. cap. 21, cap. 9. [12] _Registr. epist._ apud _Martene_, tom. ii. col. 647. [13] _Will. Tyr._ lib. xvii. cap. 27; lib. xviii. cap. 14; lib. xix. cap. 8.