CHAPTER XIV

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THE TEMPLE CHURCH AND PRECINCT.

The Temple Church--Its Restorations--Discoveries of Antiquities--The Penitential Cell--Discipline in the Temple--The Tombs of the Templars in the "Round"--William and Gilbert Marshall--Stone Coffins in the Churchyard--Masters of the Temple--The "Judicious" Hooker--Edmund Gibbon, the Historian--The Organ in the Temple Church--The Rival Builders--"Straw Bail"--History of the Precinct--Chaucer and the Friar--His Mention of the Temple--The Serjeants--Erection of New Buildings--The "Roses"--Sumptuary Edicts--The Flying Horse 149

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