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that all the lands, &c., of the Templars should be assigned to the Order 

 of the Knights of S. John of Jerusalem.^ 



Yet even this Act does not seem to have produced the desired 

 effect, as in 1329 we find the Pope still writing to the King 

 exhorting him to cause restitution to be made to the Hospitallers 

 of the property of the Templars.- 



As far as Ireland was concerned, most of the property of the 

 latter Order was inherited by the Knights of S. John, for we find 

 them in possession at the time of the dissolution of the Monasteries. 

 But in a few cases, the efforts of Pope and King seem alike to 

 have been ineffectual in bringing about a transfer to the Hospitallers. 



In England, those who had received allowances {corrodaria) 

 from the Templars for their lives, on account of services performed 

 or lands granted, on the dissolution of the Order, petitioned the 

 Crown, and received compensation, but no record has been found of 

 such a procedure in Ireland, though it is not unlikely that it 

 took place. 



We have now reached the conclusion of the story of the Knights 

 of the Temple in Ireland ; but there are one or two matters connected 

 with them which it may be more suitable to mention here than to 

 interpolate in the foregoing narrative. 



As has often been the case, the Exchequer of Ireland was 

 di-awn upon to assist the needs of the English Exchequer. In 

 1247, the King commanded the Justiciar to pay 100 marks to the 

 Master of the Temple in England, on account of the 50 marks 

 which he was wont annually to have at the Exchequer of England.^ 

 This annual payment of 50 marks would appear to have been for 

 maintaining a Knight in the Holy Land. In 1252, the Irish Exchequer 

 was again called upon to pay 200 marks, viz., four years' arrears due 

 to the Master of the Temple in England for that purpose.* A 

 more interesting demand, and one of which the results are still 

 remaining, was that of the King in 1243, when he ordered that 

 500 marks should be paid out of his treasure in Ireland to the Master 

 of the Templars in England, to acquit debts he had incurred in 

 constructing a chapel at the New Temple, London.^ This building 



1 Statutes (England), 17 Ed. II, statute 2. 



2 Papal Registers, vol. ii. 



^Cal. Irish Documents, 1171-1251, No. 2915. 

 4 Ibid., 1252-1284, No. 48. 

 ^Ibid., 1171-1251, No. 2610. 



