Note 317 — Chapter V · POLITICAL HERESY UTILIZED BY THE STATE. (continued 2)
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Procès, I. 103-51.—It must be borne in mind that the allowance was in the fearfully debased currency of Philippe le Bel. According to a document of 1318 the livre Tournois still was to the sterling pound as 1 to 4½ (Olim, III. 1279).
Other Templars subsequently offered to defend the Order, making five hundred and seventy-three up to May 2.