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ORIGIN OF THE RELIGIOUS ORDERS OF KNIGHTHOOD.-In the interval between the Second and the Third Crusade, the two famed religious military orders, known as the Hospitallers and the Templars, [Footnote: The Hospitallers, or Knights of St. John, took their name from the fact that the organization was first formed among the monks of the Hospital of St.