"to make and crenellate a great gate at their manor"
Granted at Henshaw (Heynessalgh), by privy seal.
The community at Temple Bruer was broken up on 10 January 1308 and he Templars were finally suppressed in 1312 and the preceptory passed to the Hospitallers. Work on the gate house may well have begun, especially since licences were smetimes granted as buildings were being finished. The C15 seal of the preceptor 'is a pointed oval representing a castle elaborately designed, with outer wall of masonry embattled, circular keep embattled' (VCH) which may suggests some crenellated building did exist here.
There were tensions between the Knights and the king; Edward I had siezed the Knight's treasury in London in 1302; Templar knights had fought with the Scots at Roslin in 1303. Did the Knights feel a particularly need to re-establish good relationships with Edward I by obtaining a royal licence.
The last master was William de la More who died 1312 - 'of a broken heart in his solitary dungeon in the Tower, persisting with his last breath in the maintenance of the innocence of his order.' (Addison Chap X p277).
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