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and some learned doctors and lawyers. The Templars denied 
the charges against them, and the evidence on which they 
were condemned was hearsay. But they seem to have been 
aware that their destruction was determined upon, and on 
being brought up, to the number of 24, with William de 
Grafton, Preceptor of Ribston, at their head, they all and 
each confessed that they could not purge themselves from 
the scandals imputed to them, and implored re- admission 
into the Catholic Church. They were then conducted to the 
south door of the Minster, and having taken an oath to 
observe all the mandates of the Church, they received absolu- 
tion. Out of their possessions, which were sequestrated, an 
annual stipend was allotted to them, and they were dis- 
tributed among the monasteries, there to perform their 
penance. 
From the records of the proceedings of the commissioners 
who were appointed to survey and take temporary possession 
of the estates of the Templars — Adam de Hoperton, Alex- 
ander de Cave, and Robert de Am cotes — it appears that on 
December 1st, 1311, they inspected and scheduled the 
contents of Temple Hurst and Temple Newsome. They 
were well stocked and furnished, but the inventory shows 
little of the splendour and luxury in which the Templars 
are supposed to have lived. The King granted both these 
properties to the Lord D'Arcie, whose descendant forfeited 
them by taking part in the Pilgrimage of Grace. Temple 
Newsome was then granted to Lord Lennox, the father of 
the unfortunate Darnley. It was subsequently granted to 
the Duke of Richmond, and in consequence of his extrava- 
gance was sold to Sir Arthur Ingram. In the representatives 
of this family the property still continues, but the mansion 
exhibits no trace of the preceptory of the Templars. 
