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but believe them totally lost—like the original of that ofPasquale, which had, however, been copied and printedboth in Mansi’s Coll. Conciliorum, and by the Paolis;so that the world was deprived of nothing, though theland-rats of the banks of the Thames, or the fish of thesea, have devoured the old parchment, which—as I learn bythe fragment of a MS. catalogue I accidentally picked up inthe Order’s library at Rome, and which was evidently thatof the ancient Archives of Malta—was carefully treasuredthere in a numbered drawer, Bollario 8, segnato F, nellacasella 23, until the catastrophe of 1798, when it eithershared the fate of the curiosities and trophies that wentdown on their voyage towards France, as Botta relates,or were carried off subsequently by the English, and con-signed to oblivion in some of the London undergroundcemeteries. But worse again befel the two primitive title-deeds of the Templars and Teutonics; and I fear an anti-quary must regret that no further records remain of themthan the few lines I give from Romans of eminent learning.

L’Abbe, tom. 21, pag. 358, agit de Concilio Trecensi,quo Templariis militibus anno suae institute religionisnono una cum regula assignatus est habitus albus AnnoDomini MCXXVIII., tempore Honori Pap. II.

Annum fundationis ordinis militaris Teutonicorum sicnotavit interpolator Chronici Acquicinctini ad annum 1191ubi scribit—“ Ordo militum Teutonicorum inchoatur, quemanno 1191 Februarii die 22, Ccelestinus Papa confirmavit.”Verum diploma illud Coelestini, IIL., ad nos non pervenit,et ad annum 1192 pertinet, &c.

Pagius in notis ad Baronium.