332 POLITICAL HERESY. — THE STATE. The Spanish peninsula had been excepted from the operation of the bull transferring the property to the Hospital, but subject to the further discretion of Clement. As regards the kingdom of Majorca he exercised this discretion in 1313 by giving King San- cho II. the personal property, and ordering him to make over the real estate to the Hospital, under condition that the latter should be subject to the duties which had been performed by the Temple. Even this did not relieve the Hospitallers from the necessity of bargaining with King Sancho. It was not until February, 1314, that the lands on the island of Majorca were surrendered to them in consideration of an annual payment of eleven thousand sols, and an allowance of twenty-two thousand five hundred sols to be made on the mesne profits to be accounted for since the donation was made. All profits previous to that time were to remain with the crown. No documents are extant to show what was done on the mainland, but doubtless there was a similar transaction. In addi- tion to this the pensions of the Templars assigned on the property were a heavy burden for many years.* In Aragon there was less disposition to accede to the papal washes. Constant struggle with the Saracen had left memories of services rendered, or sharpened the sense of benefits to come from some new Order devoted wholly to national objects, which could not be expected of a body like the Hospitallers, whose pri- mary duty was devotion to the Holy Land. The Templars had contributed largely to all the enterprises which had enlarged the boundaries of the kingdom. They had rendered faithful service to the monarchy in the council as well as in the field ; to them was in great part attributed the rescue of Jayme I. from the hands of de Montfort, and they had been foremost in the glorious cam- paigns which had earned for him the title of el Conquistador. Pedro III. and Jayme II. had scarce had less reason for gratitude to them, and the latter, after sacrificing them, naturally desired to use their forfeited property for the establishment of a new Order from which he might expect similar advantages, but Clement's en- gagements with the Hospitallers were such that he turned a deaf nois, from the preceptory of Gardin, in the diocese of Lerida.— Regest. Clement. PP. V. T. V. p. 41.
- Raynald. ann. 1313, No. 37— Allart, loc. cit. pp. 87, 89.
