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CHARLES G. ADDISON, ESQ.
The history of the Knights Templars, Temple Church, and the Temple
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CHARLES G. ADDISON, ESQ.
The history of the Knights Templars, Temple Church, and the Temple
page 332
cells, filled Hie abbey with his soldiers, and made a fort of the church ; he took away all the gold and silver vessels of the altar, the copes and vestments of the priests and singers ornamented with precious stones, and all the decorations of the church, and sold them for money to reward his soldiers.* The monkish historians of the period speak with horror of these sacrilegious
excesses.
" He dared," says William, the monk of Newburgh, who lived
in the reign of king Stephen, " to make that celebrated and holy
place a robber's cave, and to turn the sanctuary of the Lord into
an abode of the devil. He infested all the neighbouring pro
vinces with frequent incursions, and at length, emboldened by
constant success, he alarmed and harassed king Stephen himself
by his daring attacks. He thus, indeed, raged madly, and it
seemed as if the Lord slept and cared no longer for human
affairs, or rather his own, that is to say, ecclesiastical affairs, so
that the pious labourers in Christ's vineyard exclaimed, ' Arise,
Ο God, maintain thine own cause ... . how long shall the
adversary do this dishonour, how long shall the enemy blaspheme
thy name V But God, willing to make his power known, as the
apostle saith, endured with much ' long-suffering the vessels of
wrath fitted to destruction,' and at last smote his enemies in their
hinder parts. It was discovered indeed, a short time before the
destruction of this impious man, as we have learned from the
true relation of many witnesses, that the walls of the church
sweated pure blood,—a terrible manifestation, as it afterwards
appeared, of the enormity of the crime, and of the speedy judge
ment of God upon the sinners."f
* Vaea autcra altaris aurea et argentea Deo sacrato, ca^as ettam cajitorum lap.dibua
preciosÌB ao opere mirifico contextas, casulas cum albis et cesteria eceleeiastici decorja ornomentis rapnit, Ac. XS. ut sup. G est. reg. Steph. p. 693, 964. f De vita sedorutâ ct condigno interitu Ganfridi de Magnavilla.—Chtill, Neultr. Kb. 1.
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