VIII. England. — ^"rhe province of England in-

cluded Scotland and Ireland. Though each of these two last kingdoms had its own great -prior, they were subordinate to the great-prior of England, who re- sided at the Temple of London.
The principal bailiwicks of England were — I. Lon- don; 2. Kent; 3. Warwick; 4. Waesdone; 5. Lin- coln ; 6. Lihdsey ; 7. Bolingbroke ; 8. Widine ; 9. Agerstone; 10. York. In these were seventeen preceptories ; and the number of churches, houses, farms, mills, &c., possessed by the order was very considerable *.
* The |)088G8Kion8 of thoTemplart in Snglaqd will be found in the works of Dugdale and Tanner.
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e chief seat of the order in Scotland appears to been Blancradox, lis possessions were not extensive in that poor and turbulent country ; and in Ireland the Templars seem to have been few, and confined to the Pale. We hear of but three of their houses in tlmt country — nameiy, Glaukhorp, in the diocese of Dublin; Wilbride, in that of Ferns; and Siewerk, in that ofKildare.