106 THE ORIGINS OF FREEMASONRY FROM ANCIENT TIMES TO THE MIDDLE AGES
justice over the Barres, the Enclos, and those lands located outside of
the walls of Paris. The growth of the Templar's domain, however, called
for a modification of this authority. The properties belonging to its cen-
sive district but located inside the Parisian enceinte (the wall built by
Louis VI that determined the city limits of Paris until Philip Augustus's
construction of another in 1190), were subject only to the feudal justice
of the Temple or, at most, its low justice. After the construction of the
new enceinte, Philip Augustus, along with all high justice lords, chal-
lenged the Temple regarding its rights of high justice over the part of its
domain located inside the city's walls. This conflict lasted for close to a
century until an agreement was finally reached between King Philip III
and the Templars in August 1279. This accord was on the whole favor-
able to the king, though it did establish the rights of the Templars in a
solemn and definitive manner. After that time, all the patent letters of
the king as well as all the claims of the order were based on this docu-
ment, summarized as follows:^3 In Paris the Templars will hold posses-
sion of, in peace and perpetuity, all their houses, gardens, streets, and
squares, with the rights to all land taxes and rents incumbent to them
as well as the domain and property justice attached to them... outside
of which the king reserves to himself all other right of high or low jus-
tice. Outside the walls, they will retain over their lands, houses, and
streets, over their subjects and goods, all their rights whatsoever with all
high or low justice... The king promises for himself and his successors
never to lay claim to any of these rights mentioned, and never to demand
any tally, military service, watch, and so forth.
This legal agreement carefully established the limits of of high jus-
tice left to the Temple. It consisted of everything located outside the
enceinte erected by Philip Augustus, between the Temple and the
Barbette Gates, up to the line that would later demarcate the new wall
of Charles V. The incorporation of this area into the city at that time
did not effect any of the privileges that had been attached to it.
Here an important observation must be added: It is not out of the
question that the rights of the Temple to administer justice—mainly
high justice—remained much more extensive in the areas directly
dependent on the Enclos, such as Saint Gervais and the Barres.
Similarly, it is quite possible that they retained these rights of adminis-
tration over the fiefs that entered into the Order's possession by means