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from it or may have been afraid to protest when Philip's
troops were so close. On May 6th Clement issued a Bull
in which he announced the abolition of the Temple and com-
manded the princes to forbid the Order in their territories.
Every country except Scotland passed legislation in accord-
ance with the papal Bull. In Scotland, the Temple was
united with the Hospital, and the combined Order, under
the name of St. John and the Temple, survived until the
Reformation. When Sir James Sandilands, the Preceptor
of the Order of St. John and the Temple, turned Protestant
at the Reformation, the Order was dissolved.
The cunning and unscrupulousness of Philip had over-
thrown the Temple, but his victory was not complete. Had
the Order been condemned as he had hoped, then he might
have successfully claimed that the possessions of the Temple
should revert to the secular power. As, however, the
council had not condemned the Order as heretical, the goods
of the Temple must be held at the disposition of the Church.
There had been long discussions on the subject between
Philip and Clement. A suggestion was made that the lands
of the Temple should be returned to their original owners 5
but that was impracticable as well as repugnant to the king.
Clement then urged that, as the riches of the Temple had
been contributed for the conquest of the Holy Land, they
must be strictly reserved for that end. Philip thought that
this could best be done by uniting the existing Orders and
endowing the combined organisation with the goods of the
Temple j the new Order should be under the direction of one
of his sons, who would take the high-sounding title of King
of Egypt and Syria. This interesting project came to
nothing, and after much haggling it was decreed by the
Church that the Hospital should inherit the possessions of
the Temple.
To decree was easy, but to secure respect for the papal
enactment was impossible. Philip had already seized all the