THE

MILITARY RELIGIOUS ORDERS

OF THE MIDDLE AGES.

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THE

MILITARY RELIGIOUS ORDERS

OF THE MIDDLE AGES:

THE HOSPITALLERS, THE TEMPLARS, THE
TEUTONIC KNIGHTS, AND OTHERS.

WITH AN APPENDIX OF OTHER ORDERS OF KNIGHTHOOD:
LEGENDARY, HONORARY, AND MODERN.

"Beat your plough-shares into swords, and your pruning-hooks into spears."

JOEL iii. 10.

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1879.

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"The old order changeth, yielding place to new, And God fulfils Himself in many ways,

Lest one good custom should corrupt the world."

TENNYSON.