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

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superfluity or curiosity in any of the
dress” that they wore. It required them,
The Rule
like other Religious, to keep silence in the
Oratory, the Refectory, the Dormitory
and the Kitchen, but the diet was modified
and their fasting was like that of the
converse or lay brother among Cistercians.
The prescription of silence at table seems
to have been especially stringent: except
for the cheerlessness of this, it looks to be
a good rule of life.
There were always, besides the knights,
priests in orders, and lesser clerics, for the
Offices, the sacraments, and the sick. The
Master, though under vows, was, of course,
a layman, and after the first Master was
elected, or the second, the original monks
of Fitero so resented obedience to a secular,
that they were finally removed to S. Pedro
de Gumiel. I know nothing of similar
trouble thereafter. The Master was elected
by the Order in chapter assembled: kings
often tried to dictate the choice and some-
times succeeded.
The first master was D. Frey Garcia, a
The first
Navarrese, as said: in his time the Papal
Master
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