and of stern unbending pride. From first to last be bad boldly protested against the violent proceedings of the inquisitors, and had fearlessly maintained, amid all trials, his own innocence and that of his order. This illustrious Templar had fought under four successive Grand Masters in defence of the christian faith in Palestine, and after the fall of Acre, had led in person several daring expeditions against the infidels. For these meritorious services he was rewarded in the following manner :—After having been tortured and half-starved in the English prisons for the space of five years, he was condemned, as he would make no confession of guilt, to be shut up in a loathsome dungeon, to be loaded with double chains, and to be occasionally visited by the agents of the inquisition, to see if he would confess nothing fur tlter !* In this miserable situation he remained until death at last put an end to his sufferings. James de Molay, the Grand Master of the Temple, Guy, the Grand Preceptor, a nobleman of illustrious birth, brother to the prince of Dauphiny, Hugh de Peralt, the Visitor-general of the Order, and the Grand Preceptor of Aquitaine, had now languished in the prisons of France for the space of five years and a half. The Grand Master had been compelled to make a confession which he afterwards disowned and stigmatized as a forgery, swearing that if the cardinals who had subscribed it had been of a different cloth, he would have proclaimed them liars, and would have challenged them to mortal corabat.+ The other knights had also made confessions which they had subsequently revoked. The secrets of the dark prisons of these illustrious Templars have never been brought to light, but on the 18th of • In vilissimo carcere, ferro duplici eenstrictus, jussus est reciudi, et ibidem, donee aliud ordinatuin extiterit, reeervari ; et interim visitar!, ad videndum si vellet alterivi atiqmt confiteli !—Condi. Mag. Brit., tom. ii, p. 3Û3. t Praceanu contra Tempiariot. Dupuy, p. 120, 130. Bjtynouard, p, GO.