...towers The which on Thames' broad aged hack doe ride, Where now the studious lawyers have their bowel's, There whilom wont the Templar Knights to bide, Till they decayed through pride." At the downfall of the Templars, in 1313, the New Temple in Fleet-street was given by Edward II. to...

...and convulsively twirling his fingers, and making strange grimaces, as if repentant of his follj', quietly retrace his steps. We now pass through a dark...pride.".' The Church of the Knights' Templars is modelled in part after the Holy Sepulchre at Jerusalem. As you enter the great circular tower, which is of Norman...

...John of Jerusalem, by whom the Inner and Middle Temples were leased to the students of law, in 1320. Spencer makes the following allusion to this locality...doe ride, Where now the studious lawyers have their bovvers, There whilom wont the Templar knights to bide. Till they decayed through pride." The Church...

...New Temple, in 1184. Spenser alludes to this London locality in his beautiful Prothalamion : — " those bricky towers The which on Thames' broad aged...Where now the studious lawyers have their bowers, 1 There whilom wont the Templar Knights to bide, Till they decayed throngh pride." At the downfall...

...were located on the banks of the river Thames : — " Those bricky towers The which on Themmes brode aged back doe ride, Where now the studious lawyers...Knights to bide, Till they decayed through pride." * It would have been impossible to have selected a more delightful or more dignified situation, with...

...New Temple, in 1184. Spenser alludes to this London locality in his beautiful Prothalamion : — " those bricky towers The which on Thames' broad aged back doe ride, "IVhere now the studious lawyers have their bowers, There whilom wont the Templar Knights to bide,...

...sake of the truth in them, speaks of — " those bricky towers The which on Thames' broad aged back do ride, Where now the studious lawyers have their bowers...Knights to bide, Till they decayed through pride."* The " studious lawyers," in their towers by the water side, present a quiet picture. Yet in those times,...

...property of the students of the law, who have enjoyed the same for a period exceeding five centuries. " Where now the studious lawyers have their bowers,...whilom wont the Templar knights to bide, Till they decay'd through pride." — SPENSER. The Temple suffered greatly in the rebellion of Wat Tyler, and...

...poetical epithet, speaks of the Temple as " those bricky towers The -which on Thames' broad aged back do ride, Where now the studious lawyers have their bowers....Knights to bide, Till they decayed through pride." Lord Mansfield, the " dear Murray " of Pope, had chambers in the Temple, and the exact house is thus...

...fell into disuse. As Spenser says — " Those bricky towers The which on Thames' broad aged back do ride, Where now the studious lawyers have their bowers,...Knights to bide, Till they decayed through pride." The Temple fell into the hands of the Hospitallers, who let the buildings to law students, whose successors...