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Templar, -air, -er, n. [ME and e.m.E. templer (c1290), templare (1537), AF templer, OF templier, med. L. templarius.] a. A member of the religious order of Knights Templars or ? later the Knights Hospitalers. b. One in possession of land historically belonging to that order. Also attrib.Also ? as a personal name.a., b. 1224–42 Reg. Episc. Morav. 111.
[Henrico templario 1401 Aberd. B. Rec. (SHS) lxvi.]
Ordinatum fuit per totam communitatem quod, si templarii et ipsi de regalitate pinsant laganas ammodo vel pessimant forum in empcione farine, tota farine [etc.] 14.. Acts I 340/2.
Na templair [L. Templarius] sall intromet with any … gudes perteining to the gilde be buying or selling within or without their awin land bot gif he be ane gilde brother 1526 Wigtownshire Chart. 205.
[That Sir Alexander Makcullact of Mertoun as bailie of George lord St. John of Jerusalem and of Torphichen infeft Finla Campbell … in the temple croft of Dalkist] lie templair of St. John a1538 Abell 81b.
Ordour of templaris … at we call reid freris. First thai wsit quhit mantillis eftirwert thai bure ane reid cros 1624 Linlithgow B. Rec. 29 Nov.
James Glen, prowest, and Robert Ker, clerk, dischairgeit the commissionne to Edenburgh to intreat with my lord Melrois anent the templares 1681 Stair Inst. ii viii § 7.
The teinds of lands belonging to the Cystercian order, Hospitalers and Templars were teind-free and so continue in their feuars 1681 Stair Inst. iv xxiv § 9.
2. There is a proper defence upon the lands which did belong to the Cistertian order which were teind-free still by a privilege of that order which is continued to their singular successors, albeit they be not church-men. 3. There is also a proper exception of the teinds of Temple-lands (which were the glebes of the Templars)attrib. Urquhart Rabelais i v 26.
I drink no more then a spunge, I drink like a Templer Knight [F. Templier]