"If some among them are innocent, it is expedient that they should be assayed like gold in the furnace, and purged by proper judicial examination."
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Royal letter opening the enquiry into the Knights Templar, c. October 1307. Peter Partner, The Knights Templar & Their Myth (Rochester, VT: Destiny Books, 1990 [Oxford UP, 1981]) ch. 4, p. 61
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Philip IV of France
Philip IV (French: Philippe; April–June 1268 – 29 November 1314), called the Fair (le Bel), was King of France from 1285 to 1314. By virtue of his marriage with Joan I of Navarre, he was also King of Navarre and Count of Champagne as Philip I from 1284 to 1305.
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