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Excerpt from The Templars' Trials: An Attempt to Estimate the Evidence Published by Dupuy, Raynouard, Michelet, Von Hammer and Loiseleur, and to Arrange the Documents in the Chronological Order Suggested by the Latter
A like surprise awaits the student of the crusades; among many natural events, we come upon one, the Templars' Trial, that is puzzling. No wonder. We can even to this day still only guess at the rank of the prisoners, the motives of the prosecutors, the materials for the accusation, the species of the offence, the normality of the pro cedure, the fulness of the confessions, the scope of the defence, the very names of the victims, and half the evidence that condemned them. When will some Continental antiquarian edit the early French depositions and the acts of the Council of Vienne, which are kept unprinted, so illogically by the Paris Library, so logically by the Vatican P The inquests by the Gallican Bishops and their Provincial Councils, and that at Ravenna, should also be recoverable. Another pinch of documentary dust is still wanted to lay that obstinate phantom, the Innocence of the Temple.
In this pamphlet however, which announces no new discovery, and only arrives at an old conclusion, I can but claim, at best to have refuted some of the current theories, or at worst to have disobeyed Professor Freeman's maxim, that we should read about one generation before we write about another. That way combined information lies.
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