The Knights of the Temple of Jerusalem

Preliminary Report. V

remains silent; that he, wherever possible, always speaks with evidence in hand, and spared no effort, through the comparison of authors, the search for the best sources, and the compilation of facts, to justify the title of his work—that is, to show that the crimes and outrages attributed to the Order were the work of individual members or houses, but never the spirit of the whole.

This work appeared in the past year of 1789 in two quarto volumes quarto: a book size where each sheet is folded twice, resulting in four leaves (eight pages), typically making a large, squarish book, under the title:

original French title: "Histoire critique et apologetique de l' ordre des Chevaliers du Temple de Jerusalem, dits Templiers, par feu le R. P. M. I. Chanoine regulier de l' ordre de Prémontré, Docteur en Theologie, et Prieur de l' abbaye d' Etival. Paris."

The unnamed Premonstratensian Premonstratensian: A Roman Catholic religious order of canons regular founded in 1120; they are also known as the Norbertines Prior seems to have spent several years on its production and spared no investigations to give his work that completeness which one could expect from him, given the abundance of resources at his disposal. An example of his zealous efforts to collect everything concerning his subject can be found in the