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 2S2 POLITICAL HERESY. — THE STATE. The agreement duly executed between Clement and Philippe bore that the Templars should be delivered to the pope, but be guarded in his name by the king ; that their trials should be pro- ceeded with by the bishops in their several dioceses, to whom, at the special and earnest request of the king, the inquisitors were adjoined — but de Molay and the Preceptors of the East, of Xor- mandy, Poitou, and Provence, were reserved for the papal judg- ment ; the property was to be placed in the hands of commission- ers named by the pope and bishops, to whom the king was secretly to add appointees of his own, but he was to pledge himself in writ- ing that it should be employed solely for the Holy Land. Clement assumed that the fate of the Order, as an institution, was too weighty a question to be decided without the intervention of a general council, and it was decided to call one in October, 1310. The Cardinal of Palestrina was named as the papal representative in charge of the persons of the Templars — a duty which he speed- ily fulfilled by transferring them to the king under condition that they should be held at the disposition of the Church. Clement performed his part of the bargain by removing, July 5, the sus- pension of the inquisitors and bishops, and restoring their jurisdic- tion in the matter. Directions were sent at the same time to each of the bishops in France to associate with himself two cathedral canons, two Dominicans, and two Franciscans, and proceed with the trials of the individual Templars within his diocese, admitting inquisitors to participate at will, but taking no action against the Order as a whole ; all persons were ordered, under pain of excom- munication, to arrest Templars and deliver them to the inquisitors or episcopal officials, and Philippe furnished twenty copies of royal letters commanding his subjects to restore to the papal deputies all property, real and personal, of the Order.* Joann. de S.Victor (Bouquet, XXL 650). — Raynouard, pp. 44-5, 245-52.— Du Puy, pp. 13-14. — Schottmuller, op. cit. II. 13 sqq. — Bull. Faciem misericordiam, 12 Aug. 1808 (Rymer, II. 101.— Mag. Bull. Rom. IX. 136). ann. 1308.— Raynouard, pp. 46, 49. — Joann. de S. Victor (Bouquet, XXI. 651).— D'Achery Spicileg. II. 200. Guillaume de Plaisian, who had been Philippe's chief instrument in these transactions, received special marks of Clement's favor by briefs dated August 5 (Regest. Clement. PP. V. T. III. pp. 216, 227).
 * Du Puy, pp. 15-17, 20, 39, 86, 107-8, 118-19, 121-22, 125.— Contin. Nangiac.