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In October 1307 all the brothers of the military religious order of the Temple in France were arrested on the orders of King Philip IV and charged with heresy. In November, King Edward II received orders from the pope to do likewise. This volume provides the first full translation of the four surviving texts and one fragment of the trial proceedings that followed, together with analytical introduction and annotation. The trial of the Templars is now regarded by most scholars as a political trial, and its proceedings and the propaganda which accompanied it are seen to be of considerable significance in the development of such trials; the trial in the British Isles is particularly illustrative of this. The trial of the Templars was also the first heresy trial in the British Isles, and the proceedings reveal the English episcopate’s attempts to deal with this unprecedented situation, the procedures that were followed and the efforts made to ensure that everything was done correctly. Some differences in procedures can be noted between the provinces of Canterbury and York, and between England, Ireland and Scotland. The testimonies given during the trial contain a wealth of information about religious beliefs among the lay population of the British Isles (both the Templars and outsiders who gave evidence during the trial), national and international mobility of lay religious, the social function of the order of the Temple in the British Isles and its relations with society at large, and the organisation and operations of the order of the Temple at a local, national and international level. In addition to the meticulous word-for-word translation, the volume includes a detailed introduction tracing the course of the proceedings against the Templars in Britain and Ireland and the value of the testimonies as historical evidence, analysing the evidence presented by the Templars and others, considering the impact of the use of torture on the proceedings, and tracing how the investigators assembled their material. The introduction also considers why – given the obvious shortcomings in the evidence they presented – certain groups might have been constrained to give testimony against the Templars. The volume includes three appendices, listing Templar brothers mentioned in the proceedings in the British Isles, Templar properties in the British Isles mentioned in the proceedings, and locations of the proceedings and of the Templars’ prisons in London. There are also three maps and an index.