"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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Monarchs from France
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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