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shall have warehouses, under lock and key, to pre-serve their rents, and sell them when they please,for the use and necessities of their establishmentsin Palestine or elsewhere; and if that deed itselfperished, we have extant another which confirmsit, by William, King of Sicily in 1179.' In 1115the order had a house in Arles, 1 2 and likewise nearNarbonne, as a document in the archives of Tou-louse shows (or showed half a century ago), and ifYaisette 3 thought it regarded the Templars, or theHoly Sepulchre, the Hospitallers were often calledof the Holy Sepulchre, and sometimes of theTemple, in those remote times, which could lead tono mistake then; for in 1115 the order of Templarsdid not exist, 4 5 and were not declared a regularincorporation till thirteen years later, and had theirfirst creation in 1119. 6 The priory at Constanti-nople dates 1119, that is, a year before Gerard’sdeath; so that the prior that writes to LouisSeventh of France, appears to have seen Gerard,and lived the whole of Raymond’s reign. 6 The

1 Cod. Dipl. Geros., i. 227, Hum. clxxxiv.

2 Id.: i, 301, Hum. xxi.

3 P. A. Paoli: 398.

4 Michaud: Hist., ii. 490.

5 Id.: 144.—Cod. Dipl. Geros., i. 467.— W. of

Tyro.—Posio, par. 1, lib. i., anno 1118.

6 P. A. Paoli: 313, 314.