They declare that everything that was done in their chapters, in respect of absolution, the reception of brethren, and other matters, was honourable and honest, and might well and lawfully be done; that it was in no wise heretical or vicious; and that whatever was done was from p. 248 JAMES DE MOLAY A.D. 1311.the appointment, approbation, and regulation of all the brethren. * From their statements