CHAPTER X.

Examination of the captive Knights — Different kinds of Torture — Causes of Confession — What Confessions were made— Templars brought before the Pope — ^Their Declarations — ^Papal Commission — Molay brought be- fore it — Ponsard de Qisi — Defenders of the Order — Act of Accusation — Heads of Defence — ^Witnesses against the Order — Fifty-four Templars committed to the Flames at Paris — Remarkable words of A3rmeric de Villars-le-Duc — ^Templars burnt in other places — Further Examinations — The Head worshipped by the Templars — John de Pollincourt — Peter de la Palu , 293