Chapter XII

The Mongols--Hoolagoo sent against the
Ismailites--Rukn-ed-deen submits--Capture of
Alamoot--Destruction of the Library--Fate of
Rukn-ed-deen--Massacre of the Ismailites--St. Louis
and the Assassins--Mission for the Conversion of the
People of Kuhistan--Conclusion 156

THE TEMPLARS.

CHAPTER I.

Introduction--The Crusades--Wrong Ideas respecting
their Origin--True Causes of them--Pilgrimage--Pilgrimage
of Frotmond--Of the Count of Anjou--Striking
Difference between the Christianity of the
East and that of the West--Causes of their different
Characters--Feudalism--The Extent and Force of this
Principle 169

CHAPTER II.

First Hospital at Jerusalem--Church of Santa Maria de
Latina--Hospital of St. John--The Hospitallers--Origin
of the Templars--Their original Poverty--They
acquire Consideration--St. Bernard--His Character
of the Templars--The Order approved of and
confirmed by the Council of Troyes--Proofs of the
Esteem in which they were held 185

CHAPTER III.

Return of the Templars to the East--Exoneration and
Refutation of the Charge of a Connection with the
Ismailites--Actions of the Templars--Crusade of
Louis VII.--Siege of Ascalon--Sale of
Nassir-ed-deen--Corruption of the Hospitallers--The
Bull, _Omne Datum Optimum_--Refusal of the Templars to
march against Egypt--Murder of the Ismailite Envoy 199

CHAPTER IV.

Heroism of the Templars and Hospitallers--Battle of
Hittin--Crusade of Richard of England and Philip of
France--Corruption of the Order--Pope Innocent III.
writes a Letter of Censure--Frederic II.--Great
Slaughter of the Templars--Henry III. of England
and the Templars--Power of the Templars in
Moravia--Slaughter of them by the Hospitallers--Fall
of Acre 210

CHAPTER V.

Classes of the Templars--The Knights--Their
Qualifications--Mode of Reception--Dress and Arms of
the Knight--Mode of Burial--The Chaplains--Mode of
Reception--Dress--Duties and Privileges--The
Serving-Brethren--Mode of Reception--Their Duties--The
Affiliated--Causes and Advantages of Affiliation--The
Donates and Oblates 221

CHAPTER VI.

Provinces of the Order--Eastern Provinces--Jerusalem--Houses
of this Province--Tripolis--Antioch--Cyprus--Western
Provinces--Portugal--Castile and Leon--Aragon--France and
Auvergne--Normandy--Aquitaine--Provence--England--Germany--Upper
and Central Italy--Apulia and Sicily 242

CHAPTER VII.

Officers of the Order--The Master--Mode of Election--His
Rights and Privileges--Restraints on him--The
Seneschal--The Marshal--The Treasurer--The Draper--The
Turcopilar--Great-Priors--Commanders--Visitors--Sub-
Marshal--Standard-bearer 253

CHAPTER VIII.

Chapters--Mode of holding them--Templars' Mode of
Living--Amusements--Conduct in War 266

CHAPTER IX.

Molay elected Master--Last attempt of the Christians in
Syria--Conduct of the Three Military Orders--Philip
the Fair and Pope Boniface VIII.--Seizure of the
Pope--Election of Clement V.--The Papal See removed
to France--Causes of Philip's enmity to the Templars--Arrival
of Molay in France--His interviews with the
Pope--Charges made against the Templars--Seizure
of the Knights--Proceedings in England--Nature of
the Charges against the Order 276

CHAPTER X.

Examination of the captive Knights--Different kinds of
Torture--Causes of Confession--What Confessions
were made--Templars brought before the Pope--Their
Declarations--Papal Commission--Molay brought before
it--Ponsard de Gisi--Defenders of the Order--Act
of Accusation--Heads of Defence--Witnesses
against the Order--Fifty-four Templars committed to
the Flames at Paris--Remarkable words of Aymeric
de Villars-le-Duc--Templars burnt in other places--Further
Examinations--The Head worshipped by the
Templars--John de Pollincourt--Peter de la Palu 293

CHAPTER XI.

Examinations in England--Germany--Spain--Italy--Naples
and Provence--Sicily--Cyprus--Meeting of the
Council of Vienne--Suppression of the Order--Fate
of its Members--Death of Molay 317

THE SECRET TRIBUNALS OF WESTPHALIA.

CHAPTER I.

Introduction--The Original Westphalia--Conquest of
the Saxons by Charlemagne--His Regulations--Dukes
of Saxony--State of Germany--Henry the Lion--His
Outlawry--Consequences of it--Origin of German
Towns--Origin of the Fehm-gerichte, or Secret
Tribunals--Theories of their Origin--Origin of their
Name--Synonymous Terms 332

CHAPTER II.

The Tribunal-Lord--The Count--The Schoeppen--The
Messengers--The Public Court--The Secret Tribunal--Extent
of its Jurisdiction--Places of holding the
Courts--Time of holding them--Proceedings in them--Process
where the Criminal was caught in the fact--Inquisitorial
Process 346

CHAPTER III.

Accusatorial Process--Persons liable to it--Mode of
Citation--Mode of Procedure--Right of Appeal 360

CHAPTER IV.

The General Chapter--Rights of the Emperor--Of his
Lieutenant--Of the Stuhlherrn, or Tribunal-Lords 372

CHAPTER V.

Fehm-courts at Celle--At Brunswick--Tribunal of the
Knowing in the Tyrol--The Castle of Baden--African
Purrahs 377

CHAPTER VI.

The Emperor Lewis the
Bavarian--Charles IV.--Wenceslaus--Rupertian
Reformation--Encroachments of
the Fehm-courts--Case of Nickel Weller and the
Town of Goerlitz--Of the City of Dantzig--Of Hans
David and the Teutonic Knights--Other instances of
the presumption of the Free-counts--Citation of the
Emperor Frederic III.--Case of the Count of Teckenburg 385

CHAPTER VII.

Cause of the degeneracy of the Fehm-courts--Attempts
at reformation--Causes of their high reputation--Case
of the Duke of Wuertemberg--Of Kerstian Kerkerink--Causes
of the Decline of the Fehm-jurisdiction 398

SECRET SOCIETIES

OF

THE MIDDLE AGES.