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the days of Strongbow—a Templar knight of rank, whose name and. 
history have alike perished. The historic fact is unquestioned, of the 
remains of Strongbow having been interred within the precincts of 
Christ Church, and during last year a tombstone of much interest was 
discovered covering a tomb enclosed by stone blocks, in the course of Mr. 
Drew’s excavations when searching for sites of old monastic buildings 
formerly belonging to that Church. It lay within the dilapidated 
walls of the Chapter House, and underneath its great eastern window, 
preserved from destruction by the accumulated debris. The monu- 
mental slab represents a lady with regal coronet on her brow; her 
headdress resembles that of Joane, a natural daughter of King John, 
married to Llewellyn, ap. Jorweth, who lies buried in the Monastery 
of Clanvaes, North Wales. This monument I would ascribe to Strong- 
bow’s regal consort, Eva. 
Templar emblems are usually similar to those on the seal I 
have described—a crescent moon, with star—but the type is found to 
vary; the star may be replaced by a simple cross or by one in which 
the cross is surrounded by a halo of diverging rays, or the crescent and 
cross are represented with a star situated on either side of the cross. 
King John’s political relations with the Knights of the Temple may 
serve to explain his adoption of their distinctive symbols on his Irish 
coin, where both the crescent and cross, and crescent and star are re- 
produced. He relied on their assistance during King Richard’s absence 
at the Crusades, and when in captivity, and they appear to have 
supported John’s claims to the crown—a proceeding that would not 
commend their order to succeeding English monarchs; and when their 
doom was sealed the Prior of this Dublin monastery was produced to- 
secure their condemnation. 
In further confirmation of an intimate connexion having been 
maintained between Templar Knights and Augustinian Monks, the 
following quotation is given from the works of Nicholas Gurtler, in his 
‘¢ Historia Templariarum” :—— 
‘‘Tantum addo Templarios in primordio institute conciliis et auc- 
toritate Hierosolymitani Patriarche professos esse more Canonicorum 
regularium se victuros, istos vere Augustini regulam habuisse.” 
During the excavations, which were carried on at Christ Church by 
Mr. Drew, two conjoined bronze ornaments were obtained, which I 
exhibit by his permission; and I am indebted to him for a drawing 
representing them of full size (Plate XXIV., fig. 2). When placed in 
my hands I recognised their relation to the emblems seen upon King 
John’s coinage, and it was the occurrence of similar symbols upon 
this bronze seal which induced me to prosecute the inquiry further 
and investigate the connexion which crescent moon and star had to 
the Order of the Temple and to Augustinian Hermits. 
In these antique bronzes I believe we possess a veritable survival of 
ornaments once worn by some Templar retainer, within the precincts 
of Christ Church, upwards of five hundred years ago. All pictorial 
representations of similar emblems have long since disappeared from 
