King, Georgiana Goddard: A brief account of the military orders in Spain (New York: The Hispanic Society of America, 1921)

IN SPAIN
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Staff, and other pontifical insignia and
can give, like a Bishop, solemn Benedic-
tion after Mass, Vespers or Matins: he
can confer minor orders on the conven-
tuals, and consecrate ornaments and
vases for the use of the church, and can
reconcile them if they are polluted or
violated.
The Master has all the spiritual and
temporal power possible without orders,
the Prior having the rest. He receives
professions and gives the habit, adminis-
ters or assigns the benefices and does
all that in other orders the abbots do:
and for three hundred and twenty-three
years the Order was governed by Mas-
ters, from the sixth year after its insti-
tution to 1487. Five other dignities
there were in addition, and these are the
officers that filled them:
1. Comendador Mayor, who held the
chief place after the Master and ruled
the richest and most powerful encomi-
enda—Commandery is the English word
in the case of the Templars.
2. Clavero or Keeper of the Keys:
through many a hard battle the Clavero
of Calatrava carried the wrath of God.
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Dignities
AND MONOGRAPHS