The History of the Reformation of the Church of Scotland

In the beginning of the fourteenth age, the Order of the Templars was put down, whether for their just demerits, or for private ends and hatred, we leave it to the Histories of these times, Pope Clement the fifth by his Bull did cashier them, the Bull beginning thus, Quanquam de jure non possumus, tamen pro plenitudine potestatis dictum Ordinem reprobamus, &c. After which all Christian Princes did cause them to be apprehended in their several Dominions, and put them from their estates, which was then given to Hospitallers and Knights of Saint John, after they had stood about two hundred years, instituted by Baldonin King of Jerusalem, for defence of that City and Temple, and the safe conveying of all such as did travel thither: They are also called Red friars, because their Gowns were Red. In this fourteenth age did flourish the great Scholastic Johannes, called Scotus from his Nation, and Duns from the place of his Birth, for he was born in the Town of Duns in the Mers; he was a great Opposer of Thomas of Aquin his Doctrine; his Sectaries were called Scotists, his Epitaph was thus: Scotia me genuit, Anglia suscepit, Gallia edocuit, Germania tenet.

In the beginning of the fourteenth age, the Order of the Templers was put down, whether for their just demerits, or for private ends and hatred, we leave it to the Histories of these times, Pope Clement the fift by his Bull did cashier them, the Bull beginning thus, Quanquam de jure non possumus, tamen pro plenitudine potestatis dictum Ordinem reprobamus, &c. After which all Christian Princes did cause them to be apprehended in their severall Dominions, and put them from their estates, which was then given to Hospitallers and Knights of Saint Iohn, after they had stood about two hundred yeers, instituted by Baldonin King of Ierusalem, for defence of that Citie and Temple, and the safe conveying of all such as did travell thither: They are also called Red friers, because their Gownes were Red. In this fourteenth age did flourish the great Scholastick Iohannes, called Scotus from his Nation, and Duns from the place of his Birth, for he was born in the Town of Duns in the Mers; he was a great Opposer of Thomas of Aquin his Doctrine; his Sectaries were called Scotists, his Epitaph was thus: Scotia me genuit, Anglia suscepit, Gallia edocuit, Germania tenet.