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586 time when the Master Roger des Moulins and the Patriarch Heracius visited Clerkenwell. He must not be confounded with the Gamier who became Master of the Order in 1187, and was killed at the battle of Tiberias the same year, although all the historians of the Order have fallen into that error. The Grand-Master had been Turcopolier, and was probably his brother. That they were two different persona is clear from a manuscript in the possession of Canon Francis Smitmer, at Vienna, which is dated Anno Domini Incarnationis MCLXXXIX. apud London Ordinatio Fr Garnerii de Neapoli Prioris in Anglia. This document proves that Gamier was exercising the office of prior two years after his namesake the Grand-Master was killed at Tiberias.

, a companion in arms of Richard Cœur de Lion, in Palestine.

hENRY BAYNTUN, son of Sir Henry Bayntun, Knight Marshal to Henry II. He was killed in Bretagne, in 1201.

, grand-prior of England about 1230. The Grand-Master Bertrand de Comps having, in 1237, invoked assistance to recruit the diminished ranks of the fraternity in Palestine, a body of 300 knights, headed by de Nuzza, left their priory at Clerkenwell with the banner of St. John unfurled. Their ranks were swelled by the presence of Richard earl of Cornwall, Simon de Moutfort earl of Leicester, and William Longspe, son of the earl of Salisbury. Their arrival in Jaffa induced the sultan of Egypt to offer most advantageous terms of peace to the Christians.

.—His name appears amongst those who swore fealty to Edward I. in the chapel of Edinburgh Castle, July, 1291. He was killed at the battle of Falkirk, on the 22nd July, 1298.

.—He gained great renown in the Holy Land. He was killed at the battle of Bannockburn, in 1314, having first succeeded in rescuing Edward II. from the perils of that disastrous conflict.

.—In spite of the great accession of wealth consequent on the suppression of the Templars and the transfer of their lands to the Hospital, this grand-prior involved the