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REPLY1850

THE NEW TEMPLE

By L. B. L.

Although I am unable to give a satisfactory reply to Mr. Foss's inquiries, such information as I have is freely at his service. It may, at all events, serve as a finger-post to the road. My survey gives a most minute extent, of 35 preceptories, 23 "cameræ" of the Hospitallers, 13 preceptories formerly commandries of the Templars, 74 limbs, and 70 granges, impropriations, &c., and, among them all, not a single one of the valuation of the New Temple itself. *Reprises* of that establishment are entered, but no *receipts*. The former are as follows: "In emendationem et sustentationem ecclesie Novi…

Topics: Hospitallers, Templars, Judicial Pensions, Medieval Land Tenure

Locations: London, Northumberland, Penhull