Note 304 — Chapter V · POLITICAL HERESY UTILIZED BY THE STATE.
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Regest. Clement. PP. V. T. II. p. 95.—Du Puy, pp. 117-18, 124, 134.—Schottmüller, I. 94.—Rymer, Fœd. III. 30.—MSS. Chioccarello T. VIII.—Mag. Bull. Rom. IX. 126, 131.—Zurita, Lib. v. c. 73.
Apparently there was a general expectation that the Hospitallers would share the fate of the Templars, and a disposition was manifested at once to pillage them, for Clement felt obliged, December 21, 1307, to issue a bull confirming all their privileges and immunities, and to send throughout Europe letters ordering them to be protected from all encroachments (Regest. Clem. PP. V. T. III. pp. 14, 17-18, 20-1, 273; T. IV. p. 418).