( 2 ?)
of Malta, which with Tripoli and Gota were granted tothem in Fee by the Emperor Charles V. A.D. 1530. un-der the Tender of one Falcon yearly to the Viceroy ofSicily, and to acknowledge the King of Spain and Sicilyfor their Protectors. In this Me they continue a Bul-wark to thofe Parts, and from this their Settlement arecalled Knights of Malta.
3. Knights Templars.
About the Year 1117, 1x18, 1119, or 1120, thisOrder took Beginning, Baldwin II. then reigning in Jcru-falem 5 when Nine Gentlemen, (if whom Two of nobleExtraction, Hugh de Paganes a.n<$. Godfrey de St.Omer , camein Devotion to the Holy Land 5 they were called Bro-thers of the Militia of the Temple, ordinarily KnightsTemplars, irom the Habitation afltgn xl them out of apart of the King’s own Palace, adjoyning to the Templeof Solomon ; 1 'Jerufalem. Their firftUndertaking was toguard the mo ft dangerous Ways about that City, againftthe Vio ence and Robberies of the Saracens, whichmade to m acceptable to all, and for which they hadRemiifton of their Sins 5 but for the firft Nine Yearsthey were yet fo poor that they lived upon the Alms ofothers, wore Clothes bellowed in Charity upon them,and rode two on one Horfe 3 in memory of which pri-mitive Poverty their Seal had the Imprefs, which is re-prefented in Math. Paris, A. D. 1127. They hadRules affigned them, drawn up by St. Bernard Abbot ofClairvaux, by the Appointment of Pope Honorius II. andStephen Patriarch of Jerufalem. They made their Vowsof Obedience, Poverty and Chaftity, and to live underthe Rules of Canons regular of St. Auguflin. TheirHabit was White, to which, in the Time of Eugemm III.they added the Red Crofs, and of the fame Form thatthe Hofpitallers wore {Tuvin fays a patriarchal Cro/s) andlowed it on the left Shoulder of the Maulles. Thefewith the Holy Sepulchre Hofpitallers and Teutonicks,principally fupported a long time the Kingdom of Jerit-falem 3 hut when Riches encreas’d, and their Revenuesaugmented, they grew proud, fell from the Obedienceof the Patriarch to joyn with the Pope 3 and at lafl,
C 4 *37^