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the Baptist’s day, to buy sheets, and secure said sumon my rent-roll of Babylon ; and expressly desirethat in all wars between Saracens and Christians,this continue to be paid the same, and sent to thegrand master, whoever he be; and that it is ingratitude for the wonderful charity of his order.’ ” 1

Margat 2 is a clear proof of what I have statedalready, that the stories of dissensions betweenTemplars and Hospitallers are likely to have beeninventions of malignant idlers, to which neither ofthe parties themselves attended much. There couldnever have been any dispute between them con-cerning Margat; for the Templars knew just as wellas the Hospitallers themselves, that given to theselatter it had been years before by a regular deed ofgift or sale, and with a whole cloud of witnessesamong whom the Bishop of Valence, the Prince ofAntioch, &c., &c., in date of 1186 ; 3 4 and was a fiefof the Massocrians— Castrum munitissimum Marga-tum quod fuit Hospitalise Were the information ofMathew Paris perfectly correct, that the Templarshad become enormously richer than the Hospitallers,

1 MS. chi Roi de France, Hum. 454.—Bib. Crois., iii. 341.

2 Michaud : Hist., iii. 12.

3 Cod. Dipl. Geros., Hum. lxxvii., vol. i. 77.—Seb. PaoliNotizie Geograf., i. 423.—Appendix, 1.

4 Sanuti: lib. iii. 14.