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

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MILITARY ORDERS
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Helpers and
harbourers
and gave up honours and worldly pomp,
rich clothes, and long hair; and covenanted
to abstain from what Scripture forbade
and to keep only what Scripture allowed.
Really, this is, already, quite unlike the
foundation of Calatrava. The knights, we
are told elsewhere, swore to live in obe-
dience to a superior, to keep poverty of
spirit and conjugal chastity. There is a
curious but persistent tradition that the
original thirteen were reformed highway-
men, who bound themselves by oath to
protect and guide travellers along the
Way and submitted and allied themselves
to the Canons of S. Loy with this intent.
The knights must be poor and humble,
without personal property, and the com-
munity would give to them what they
needed in sickness and health, and like-
wise to their wives and children. The clerks
were to take charge of the education of the
children, besides other duties. This is the
account of La Fuente, writing in the nine-
teenth century with elder historians before
him. He mentions casually, elsewhere,
that by the original Rule any knight who
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