THE TEMPLARS. 331 deliver it to the Archbishops of Aries and Embrun, the commis- sioners appointed by the pope, and before he was finally obliged to make it over he realized what he could from it. Perhaps the Hospital fared better in Cyprus than elsewhere, for when the papal nuncio, Peter, Bishop of Ehodes, published the bull, Novem- ber 7, 1313, the Templar possessions seem to have been made over to it without contest. In England, even the weakness of Ed- ward II. made a feeble attempt to keep the property. Clement had ordered him, February 25, 1309, to make it over to the papal commissioners designated for the purpose, but he seems to have paid no attention to the command. After the Council of Yienne we find him, August 12, 1312, expressing to the Prior of the Hos- pital his surprise that he is endeavoring under the color of papal letters to obtain possession of it, to the manifest prejudice of the dignity of the crown. Much of it had been farmed out and alien- ated to Edward's worthless favorites, and he resisted its surren- der as long as he dared. When forced to succumb he did so in a manner as self -abasing as possible, by executing, November 24, 1313, a notarial instrument to the effect that he protested against it, and only yielded out of fear of the dangers to him and his kingdom to be apprehended from a refusal. It may be "doubted whether his orders were obeyed that it should be burdened with the payment of the allowances to the surviving Templars. He succeeded, however, in getting a hundred pounds from the Hos- pitallers for the London Temple ; and in 1317 John XXII. was obliged to intervene with an order for the restitution of lands still detained by those who had succeeded in occupying them.*
- Contin. Guillel. Nangiac. ann. 1312. — Villani Chron. vm. 92. — Matt. Neo-
burg. (Albertin. Argentin.) Chron. ann. 1346 (Urstisii II. 137).— H. Mutii Chron. Lib. xxii. ann. 1311.— Chron. Fr. Pipini c. 49 (Muratori S. R. I. IX. 750).— Have- mann,p. 338. — Vertot, II. 154. — Hocsemii Gest. Episcc. Leodiens. (Chapeaville, II. 346).— Trithem. Chron. Hirsaug. ann. 1307.— Naucleri Chron. ann. 1306.— Raynald. ann. 1312, No. 7 ; ami. 1313, No. 18.— Van Os, p. 81.— Wilcke, II. 340-1, 497.— Gassari Annal. Augstburg. ann. 1312 (Menken. I. 1473).— Schottmiiller, 1. 496 ; II. 427-9.-Regest. Clement. PP. V. T. IV. p. 452.— Ryraer, III. 133-4, 292-4, 321, 337, 404, 409-10, 451-2, 472-3.— Le Roulx, Documents, etc., p. 50. We happen to have a slight example of the plunder in an absolution granted February 23, 1310, by Clement to Bernard de Bayulli, canon and chancellor of the Abbey of Cornelia in Roussillon, for the excommunication incurred by him for taking a horse, a mule, and sundry effects, valued in all at sixty livres Tour-
