“For we did not and do not wish the Temple to be placed in any servitude except that which is fitting.”

—  Jacques de Molay

Quar nous navons volu ne volons le Temple mettre en aucune servitute se non tant come il hy affiert.
In one of his memoranda to Pope Clement V from the summer of 1306.

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