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"You have not encountered cunning or danger until you have faced a British Templar."

―Miko, in a letter to Achilles Davenport, 1751.^[src]^-[m]

The British Rite of the Templar Order is the rite of the Templar Order based in the United Kingdom since at least the 6th century CE, with the legendary King Arthur as one of its early members. The organization's modern incarnation was formed in 878 CE by King Alfred the Great of Wessex after he eliminated the last vestiges of the Order of the Ancients in Anglo-Saxon England with the help of the Raven Clan shieldmaiden Eivor Varinsdottir and the Hidden One Hytham.

During the public era of the organization, the British Rite was well implanted in England, having a headquarters in London and influencing the King John Lackland. Even after their public disbanding, the Rite continued to influence the English monarchy, allying with the Lancaster during the Hundred Years' War, trying to restore the House of York during the reign of Henry VII and influencing Queen Mary I.

During the 17th century, the British Rite influenced the works of intellectuals such John Locke, Isaac Newton and Francis Bacon to further their goals, leading to the Age of Reason.

During the 18th century, under the leadership of their Grand Master Reginald Birch, the Rite expelled British Brotherhood of Assassins from London, increasing its power in the city for over a century. The Rite also had a great influence across the wider world, leading operations in Europe, Africa, Asia and the Americas. Other rites often contacted Birch to receive his support or advice for their own operations. By sending his best agent Haytham Kenway to the Thirteen Colonies, Birch permitted the formation of the Colonial Rite of the Templar Order.

During the 19th century, even though some Templars were reluctant about the reforms of the French Templars brought by François-Thomas Germain, the British Rite controlled British society through capitalism. The Rite also had agents in the East India Company, interfering in Indian politics while searching for the Koh-i-Noor, a powerful Piece of Eden.

By 1862, the Grand Master Crawford Starrick used his corporate empire to control every aspect of London's society: the medical field, politics, transport and science. With their gang, the Blighters, the Templars also had control over the city's criminal underworld. However, in 1868 Starrick and his allies were killed by the twin Assassins Evie and Jacob Frye. As a result, the Assassins returned to prominence in London while the British Rite collapsed into a civil war, with one faction attempting to organize multiple terrorist attacks around the city, which were thwarted by the Fyes.

During World War I, the British Rite was infiltrated by the Instruments of the First Will, a group seeking to restore the Isu as the rulers of humanity. Under the leadership of the Master Spy, a Sage, they collaborated with the German Empire and ran a spy ring in London, which was eventually dismantled by the Assassin Lydia Frye with the assistance of Winston Churchill.

By the 21st century, the Templars have returned to prominence in Great Britain, mainly through the establishment of their front company, Abstergo Industries.

History

Early Middle Ages

Briton England

During the early 6th century, the Romano-British leader who would later come to be known as King Arthur was a member of the Order of the Ancients.^{[citation needed]} He came into possession of Excalibur, one of the Swords of Eden, an Isu relic which granted charisma to his wielder. He used it in defense against Saxon invaders and became King of Britain.^[1] Arthur later died after being betrayed by his wife, best friend and son.^[2]

Viking Age

By the 9th century, the Order of the Ancients had established a solid foothold throughout the British Isles. The Order was divided into five different sects: the Wardens of War, the Wardens of Law, the Wardens of Wealth, the Wardens of Faith and the Wardens of Relics. Each of these sects were firmly entrenched into various aspects of Anglo-Saxon society, be it the military, law enforcement, politics or the Catholic Church. The leaders of these sects were known as Maegesters and they were subordinates to "The Father" otherwise known as King Alfred of Wessex who inherited the position of Grand Maegester from his brother Æthelred after his death in the Battle of Merton.^[3] Additionally, members of the Order held the rank of either Palatinus or Preost. The Order also hired a group of mercenaries known as the Zealots to eliminate any opposition to their rule.^[4]

However, Alfred despised the Order for its worship of the Isu, since he was a devout Christian. In fact, he would directly aid the Hidden Ones in eliminating the Order by sending letters - under the alias of "a Poor Fellow-Soldier of Christ" - to the Ravensthorpe bureau headed by Hytham, listing key targets in the cities of Lunden, Jorvik, and Wincestre.^[5] After the Order had been purged from England, Alfred reformed what was left of it into the Knights Templar, otherwise known as the Templar Order.^[6]

High And Late Middle Ages

Crusades

As the Order became publicly known in Europe as the Knights Templar, it could act in plain sight as a military force in the Holy Land for the Crusades and as a bank service in Europe. During the 12th century, they constructed the Temple Church in London as their headquarters. At the same period, members of the Gift family from Knightsbridge were active members of the Templar Order.^[7]

At the end of the 12th century, Maria Thorpe joined the British Rite and went to the Holy Land during the Third Crusade to serve under Robert de Sablé, Grand Master of the Levantine Rite. In 1191, she was his body double to foil an assassination attempt organized by the Master Assassin Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad. After the Assassin discovered the trick, he decided to spare Maria's life, as she was not his intended target.^[8]

Following de Sablé's death by Altaïr's blade, Maria worked under the order of Armand Bouchart, the de facto leader of the Levantine Templars in Cyprus. During an attack on Acre by the Levantine Assassins, Bouchart left Maria behind to be captured by Altaïr. Forcefully accompanying the Assassin to Cyprus, Maria came to see the flaws of the Templars after witnessing their corruption under Bouchart, and ultimately defected from the Order by helping Altaïr find and kill Bouchart.^[9]

First Barons' War

During the 13th century, the Templar Order was well implanted in England during the reign of John Lackland, with some of its members acting as advisors to the English King, whom they turned into their pawn. However, their plan were countered by the British Assassins, who rallied the English nobility against John's tyrannical rule during the First Barons' War. Led by Robert Fitzwalter, the Assassins were determined to end the rule of the Templars and allied themselves with the French Crown, who backed the rebellion against King John.^[10]

Hundred Years' War

After the public disbandment of the Templar Order in 1312, the British Templars worked in the shadows. Even though their power was weakened for a century in Europe, the Templars continued to act on the political field.^[11]

During the mid-14th century, the Houses of Valois and Plantagenet fought for the Crown of France, beginning the Hundred Years' War. The Templars backed the English kings while the Assassins supported the French rulers. In 1420, the Treaty of Troyes was signed, which declared that the English King Henry V would inherit the French Crown after the death of the current King of France, Charles VI. However, as Henry passed away two months before Charles, a succession crisis ensued. The English installed Henry's son, Henry VI, as King of France, but his position was disputed by Charles' son, who proclaimed himself Charles VII of France. Additionally, due to Henry VI's young age, a regent was assigned to rule in his place: his uncle, John of Bedford, who was secretly a member of the Templar Order.^[2]

Bedford fought off the French numerous times until the arrival of Jeanne d'Arc, who wielded a Sword of Eden that granted her a religious halo as she claimed God had sent her to liberate France from the English. As Jeanne crowned Charles VII in Reims and won battles, the Templars saw her as a treat and captured her during the Siege of Compiègne in 1430, taking her Sword in the process. Bedford sent Jeanne to an ecclesiastical court in Rouen where the French Templars condemned her to burn for witchery. However, the Assassins secretly saved Jeanne by replacing her with her protegee, Fleur, who sacrificed herself on the stake.^[2]

Renaissance

Fighting for the English Crown

During the late 15th century, the Templars made attempts to obtain the English throne. However, their plans were thwarted by King Henry VII, as he imprisoned Lambert Simnel and had Perkin Warbeck hanged. In November 1503, the Templar Margaret of York and her co-conspirators were killed by a group of Italian Assassins sent by their Mentor Ezio Auditore da Firenze. The Assassins also killed a group of Templars instigating riots over Margaret's death, and captured and interrogated one of them, learning that the Order had infiltrated Henry's Star Chamber. The infiltrators were subsequently found and eliminated by the Brotherhood.^[12]^[13]

On 19 July 1553, the Templar-affiliated Mary I ascended the throne of England and Ireland following the death of her father, King Henry VIII. As a monarch, she used violent attempts to restore Catholicism as the state religion of England, burning hundreds of Protestants at the stake in the process. The Assassins killed Mary for her tyranny on 17 November 1558, and helped her half-sister Elizabeth I ascend the throne.^[1]

Starting the Age of Reason

During the 17th century, the Templars in Europe wanted to forget the "Dark Age of the Order" when the corrupt Borgia ruled over the Roman Rite. As such, they rethought their role as advisors of the rulers and no more as rulers themselves. To achieve this, they used and influenced the works of intellectuals such John Locke, Isaac Newton and Francis Bacon to make philosophy and rationalism flourish in society to advance their goals. This period saw a great scientific revolution and the beginning of empiricism and liberalism.^[14]

Salem witch trials

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Samuel Parris and William Stoughton observing Bridget Bishop's execution

In 1692, in the city of Salem, Massachusetts, a young girl named Dorothy Osborne came into in contact with an unidentified Piece of Eden which gave her the ability to speak with the Isu Consus. This caught the attention of the Templar and Puritan minister Samuel Parris, who began witch trials in the city after other women became "ill." His Templar brother William Stoughton served as the magistrate of the court during the trials, imprisoning women suspected of witchcraft to create more oracles like Osborne.^[15]

During the trials, the Assassin and artifact hunter Thomas Stoddard arrived in the city to recover the Piece of Eden. With the help of fellow Assassin Jennifer Querry, he liberated Osborne, but the group was tracked by the villagers under the order of the Templars, who manipulated them into believing Stoddard was the Devil in flesh. Once the Assassins were captured, Stoughton tried to interrogate them, but was interrupted by Consus delivering a cryptic message through Osborne.^[15]

Querry used this distraction to escape, but was promptly killed by Stoughton. After Osborne sacrificed herself in the flames to prevent the Templars from using her, an enraged Stoughton tried to kill Stoddard in retaliation, but was shot and stopped by Parris. Disagreeing with Stoughton's violent methods, Parris then allowed Stoddard to leave the city with David, Querry's son.^[15]

The New World

The Kenways

In the early 18th century, the Templars recruited British merchants and tried to take advantage of the economic growth of the British Empire. In Bristol, the Templars Emmett Scott and Aubrey Hague founded the Trade Organization, an association of merchants protected by their Order, and destined to put the Bristolian commerce under their control. After Scott's daughter, Caroline, married Edward Kenway against her father's wishes, he ordered the members of the Trade Organization to burn the farm of the Kenways, to prevent his daughter from going back there after Edward's departure to the Caribbean Sea in 1712.^[16]

By 1714, the Templars at the East India Company had learned of the Assassin Duncan Walpole's dissatisfaction with the Brotherhood and saw an opportunity to recruit him. When Duncan was tasked by his Mentor, Phillip Randall, to assassinate Henry Spencer, a member of the company's Court of Directors, he tailed his target from the East India House to a tavern. There, he decided to strike a conversation with Spencer, during which it became clear his target was a Templar and aware of Duncan's own affiliations. Despite this, the exchange proceeded peacefully.^[17]

After Spencer left, Duncan followed him, intending to complete his assassination. He pursued his target via the rooftops and eventually leapt upon him, putting a Hidden Blade to his throat. Despite this, Spencer made no move to escape and instead explained his intention to recruit the Assassin into the Templar Order. Convinced that the Templars would allow him to attain the fame and fortune he desired, Duncan accepted and met up with Randall the following day to take his next assignment, intending to use it to sabotage the Assassins before officially joining the Order.^[17]

Duncan was tasked to travel to the Caribbean to receive further training from the West Indies Assassins. During his time there, he acquired a set of maps showing the locations of the Assassins' bureaus in the region, which he intended to deliver to the Templars in Havana. However, while on his way to Cuba in 1715, Duncan's boat engaged a pirate ship, the Jacobite, resulting in both vessels' destruction. Duncan and Edward Kenway, who was serving aboard the Jacobite at the time, were the sole survivors, though the rogue Assassin was killed by Edward shortly after they were both stranded in Cape Bonavista.^[18]

In 1723, Edward returned to England after having joined the Assassins and learned of his wife Caroline's passing years prior. Upon discovering the reason behind the burning of his parents' farm, as well as the fact that Caroline's death had been caused by her father's arrogance, Edward set out to exact revenge on Emmett Scott and his Templar brothers. After killing Scott and his associate Wilson, Edward went after Matthew Hague, though he was prevented from killing him by Robert Walpole, a neutral party who negotiated a truce between the Assassin and the Hagues.^[16]

Reginald Birch, Grand Master of the British Rite

By the mid-18th century, under the leadership of Reginald Birch, the British Rite held a leading position among the various Templar Rites.^[19] Through Robert Walpole, Birch became acquainted with Edward Kenway, for whom he began working as a senior property manager. Knowing of Edward research on Isu sites, Birch intended to steal the man's journal.^[20]

In 1733, Birch began courting Edward's daughter Jennifer as a pretext to visiting the Kenway Mansion and interrogating Edward's young son, Haytham, who unintentionally revealed the journal's location. Eventually, Jennifer discovered that Birch was a Templar and warned her father, who cut ties with him as a result. Despite this, Birch had already obtained what he was after.^[20]

On 3 December 1735, Birch orchestrated an attack on the Kenway household, hiring five mercenaries from his Templar brother and British Army lieutenant Edward Braddock to kill Edward and obtain his journal. The attack was successful and, following Edward's death, Birch became Haytham's legal guardian, intending to indoctrinate the boy into the Templar Order.^[20]

Under the pretext of searching for Jennifer, who had been abducted by the mercenaries and sold into slavery, Birch took Haytham on a five year journey across Europe, during which time he taught the boy the ideals of the Templar Order. Eventually, the two abandoned their search due to the War of the Austrian Succession, and Birch took over the Droupt-Saint-Basle chateau near Troyes, France as a base of operations, where he continued Haytham's training.^[20]

Search for the Temples

With Edward's journal in his possession, Birch began scouring the globe, investigating several leads to potential Isu artifacts and sites. In 1738, he inducted Lawrence Washington into the Templar Order; Washington later rose in the ranks and became a Master Templar, at which point Birch tasked him with locating the Grand Temple in the British Colonies. The British Templar James Wardrop joined Washington in the New World and began to secure land and wealth for the Order. In 1744, Wardrop built a trade network from the Colonies to the West Indies for the Templars.^[19]

During this time, new members were inducted into the British Rite, including Samuel Smith, who became the treasurer of the Templars in America; and William Johnson, who became Colonel of the Warriors of the Six Nations. In 1750, unimpressed with Washington's progress finding the Grand Temple, Birch sent another of his Templar agents, Colonel George Monro, to further their efforts.^[19]

Around 1746, the frontiersman Christopher Gist became an ally of the Templar Order. He was later recruited by Monro to explore the west colonies, as well as strengthen the Templars' relation with the indigenous tribes in order to secure alliances and commercial lanes. At some point, Gist encountered a young thief named Jack Weeks who attempted to pickpocket him. Despite Weeks being caught in the act, Gist was impressed by his skill and audacious attitude, and took him on as an errand boy; Gist later began tutoring Weeks at Monro's suggestion. In 1751, both Gist and Weeks were inducted into the Templar Order by Monro.^[19]

In 1746, Birch liberated the Spanish scientist Antonio de Ulloa following his capture by the British authorities, and introduced him to both the Royal Society of London and the Templar Order. Around 1748, at the request the Templar Madeleine de L'Isle, Birch used his influence to sabotage the trading company of Philippe de Grandpré, forcing Philippe to marry Madeleine in order to alleviate his financial troubles. This was part of a ploy by Madeleine to acquire a Piece of Eden called the Heart of the Brotherhood, which was in the possession of Philippe's placée, Jeanne.^[19]

In 1750, Rafael Joaquín de Ferrer, a Templar whose family had a debt to Birch, attempted to find a Precursor box to erase his family's debt. While he did not find the box, during his search de Ferrer discovered the abandoned Maya city of Chichen Itza and set up an excavation site to uncover Precusor sites he believed to be hidden underneath the ruins. The British Templar John Harrison organized a slavery operation in Gorée Island to provide manpower for the Chichen Itza excavation. Fearing to be discovered in Africa, the Templars relocated the operation to Florida and later to New Orleans, where it was overseen by the recently-established Louisiana Rite, led by Madeleine de L'Isle.^[19]

In 1751, Lawrence Washington learned that François Mackandal, Mentor of the Haitian Assassins, had obtained two powerful Precursor artifacts: the Precursor box and the Voynich manuscript, which aided the Brotherhood in locating several Precursor sites, with one located in Port-au-Prince. Washington traveled to Haiti and tracked down Vendredi, one of Mackadnal's students who had indirectly triggered a massive earthquake during his investigation of a Precursor site.^[19]

When Vendredi attempted to escape the site, he became trapped and was killed by Washington after he had tricked the Assassin into revealing the location of Mackandal's camp. From the camp, Washington managed to steal the Precursor box and the manuscript, but while returning to the colonies, he was pursued by the Assassin Adéwalé. Washington was able to evade him upon reaching New York, and later gave the box and the manuscript to Samuel Smith and James Wardrop, respectively.^[19]

In July 1752, Washington organized a party at Mount Vernon to cover a reunion with his Templar brothers. Revealing he was dying from tuberculosis, Washington asked his fellow Templars to leave his younger brother out of their affairs; a choice that the Templars respected. After the reunion, Washington was killed by the Colonial Assassin Shay Cormac. With their leader dead, James Wardrop assumed leadership of the Templars in the colonies and worked to translate the Voynich manuscript. Samuel Smith, meanwhile, traveled to Europe with the Precursor box to find someone to make it work.^[19]

Haytham's investigation

In 1744, Haytham Kenway was inducted in the Templar Order and performed his first assassination in Liverpool, killing a greedy merchant to protect the interests of the Templars. He was an efficient killer for the Order and in 1747 was sent to Spain to kill Juan Vedomir, a rogue Templar who had stolen Edward's journal. After completing this mission, Haytham continued his investigation on what had happened on the night his father had been murdered.^[20]

Haytham and Birch traveled in Germany to interrogate Jack Digweed, a former servant of the Kenway family who had been blackmailed into giving the key to the plate room to the mercenaries. Arriving at Digweed's cabin, the Templars found the man being tortured by two British soldiers, who fled upon seeing them. Haytham pursued one of them and discovered that he was one of the mercenaries who had attacked the Kenway Mansion. The mercenary told Haytham that his father had been an Assassin and had been killed for an object in his possession, but died before he could say more. While Haytham pursued the mercenary, Birch killed Digweed to silence his implication with the mercenaries.^[20]

Following this, Haytham discovered a document on the dead mercenary that implied the man who had murdered his father was in the Dutch Republic. Investigating this lead, Haytham found the man but they were both knocked out by Edward Braddock's men. The British soldiers, thinking they were both deserters, attempted to hang them; while Haytham managed to escape, the mercenary was not as lucky and died on the rope. Braddock later told Haytham that the mercenary was Tom Smith and one of his soldiers, but concealed the fact that he had him hanged to cover Birch.^[20]

As Haytham wanted to find the last mercenary among Braddock's troops, the general agreed to let him investigate on the condition Haytham enlisted in his army. Haytham accepted and aided the British Army in fleeing during the Siege of Bergen-op-Zoom. During this event, he witnessed Braddock killing civilians in cold blood. As Braddock became crueler and more violent during the war, he decided to leave the Templar Order, thinking they were weak to not apply the sword more liberally and more often. In response, Haytham cut all ties with Braddock and left the army alongside the soldier Jim Holden, whom he had befriended during the war.^[20]

In 1753, Birch captured Monica Albertine, an ally of the Assassins who could decode Edward Kenway's journal. As she couldn't complete her work without her son Lucio, Birch sent Haytham to Corsica to capture him. Lucio was protected by the leader of the British Assassins, Miko, who also helped the Corsicans in their revolt against the Genoese. Haytham captured Lucio and defeated Miko, stealing the Assassin's Hidden Blades in the process.^[20]

Establishing the Colonial Rite

In 1754, Birch asked Haytham to meet at the Theatre Royal during a performance of The Beggar's Opera, where he gave him his next mission: to kill Miko, who was part of the audience, and retrieve an amulet in his possession. Haytham accomplished the mission and escaped the theatre without being noticed.^[21] With the death of Miko, the Templars were able to gain complete control of London from the Assassins, and kept the city under their thumb for over a century.^[22]

Haytham later presented the amulet to Birch, who revealed it to be the key to the Grand Temple. Birch subsequently booked Haytham transport to Boston so that he could locate the Grand Temple and simultaneously establish a strong Templar presence in the colonies.^[21]

Traveling aboard a merchant ship called the Providence, Haytham discovered that one of the sailors, Louis Mills, was in fact an Assassin who had followed him after Miko's death. Haytham killed Mills, but the Assassin had already thrown several barrels of cargo overboard, which were followed by the Aquila, the flagship of the Colonial Assassins' Navy. The Aquila tried to sink the Providence to kill Haytham, but the Templar directed the ship into a storm where it managed to lose its pursuers.^[21]

During Haytham's journey, the Assassin Shay Cormac killed Samuel Smith upon his return from Europe and James Wardrop during the Albany Congress. As a result, the Templars lost both the Precursor box and the Voynich manuscript, and the leadership of the Templars in the colonies was vacant once again.^[19]

Arriving in Boston in July 1754, Haytham met an ally of the Templar Order, Charles Lee, who was a soldier under the command of Edward Braddock, who was currently serving in the colonies during the French and Indian War. Lee served as a contact between Haytham and the Templars in the colonies and they installed their headquarters in the Green Dragon Tavern. Haytham first met William Johnson, who informed him that his research had been stolen by mercenaries. Haytham and Lee helped Johnson's assistant and fellow Templar Thomas Hickey recover the research, allowing Johnson to confirm whether the Grand Temple Key's markings were connected to the native Kanien'kehá:ka.^[21]

While Johnson attempted to pinpoint the location of the Grand Temple, Haytham and Lee decided to recruit the surgeon and Templar Benjamin Church, who they found had been captured by a corrupt British officer named Silas Thatcher. The Templars rescued Church, before setting their sights on recruiting John Pitcairn, who was also a soldier serving under Braddock. After Braddock refused to release Pitcairn from his command, Haytham and Lee assaulted Braddock during one of his patrols to force him to comply.^[21]

Learning that Thatcher was running a slave operation out of Southgate Fort, Haytham decided to put an end to it, believing that doing so would earn them the favor of the Kanien'kehá:ka, which could prove essential in their expedition to find the Grand Temple. After intercepting one of Thatcher's slave convoys and disguising themselves as British soldiers, the Templars infiltrated the fort, killed Thatcher and freed his slaves, including a woman named Kaniehtí:io.^[21]

Haytham was intriguted by Kaniehtí:io and, believing she could lead him to the Grand Temple, decided to seek her out. After finding her in the Frontier, the two striked an alliance: in exchange for Kaniehtí:io's assistance, Haytham would have to kill Braddock, who had taken lands from the natives. Haytham accepted and discovered that Braddock was preparing an expedition to take the French-occupied Fort Duquesne.^[21]

In July 1755, the Templars prepared an ambush with the Lenape, the Shawnee, the Abenaki and the French troops. Haytham infiltrated Braddock's army with a British uniform and when the attack began, he pursued Braddock and mortally wounded him. Haytham then took Braddock's Templar ring to signify his betrayal of Templar Order's principles and, assuming Braddock to be dead, left to meet with Kaniehtí:io. As promised, she showed him the entrance to the Grand Temple, but when Haytham tried to access the site using his key, he was unsuccessful.^[21]

Later, Haytham returned to the Green Dragon Tavern, where he informed his fellow Templars of his findings. Believing that they should abandon the search for the Grand Temple and focus on increasing their power and influence in the colonies, Haytham then inducted Charles Lee into the Templar Order, officially founding the Colonial Rite.^[21]

Over the following weeks, Haytham entered into a romantic relationship with Kaniehtí:io, though she became upset after learning that he had not upheld his end of their deal by making sure Braddock was dead; in reality, the general had died four days after the attack. After also learning about Haytham's affiliations and what the Templars truly sought, Kaniehtí:io ended the relationship and forced Haytham to leave while concealing her pregnancy from him.^[20]

Haytham's revenge

Haytham eventually returned to Europe after receiving a letter from Jim Holden informing him that he had located his long-lost sister, Jennifer Scott. As Haytham had become distrustful of Birch, he lied to him that he was going to the Middle East to investigate a possible lead to a Precursor site. In reality, Haytham and Holden continued to search for Jennifer.^[20]

In 1757, the two learned that Jennifer had been forced to serve as a concubine the Topkapı Palace in Constantinople, before being moved to Damascus due to her age. Disguising themselves as eunuchs, Haytham and Holden rescued her; however, Holden was captured by the guards and taken to the Abou Gerbe monastery on Mount Ghebel Eter in Egypt to undergo operations to become a eunuch. Haytham arrived too late to save his friend from the operation but avenged him by killing the priests and burning the monastery.^[20]

Following her rescue, Jennifer informed Haytham of the truth regarding the attack on the Kenway Mansion. Learning that Birch was responsible and had been lying to him for years, Haytham decided to seek revenge. Alongside Jennifer and Holden, he attacked Birch's chateau in Troyes, killing the Grand Master's guards and John Harrison before confronting Birch himself. The Grand Master tried to defend his actions by claiming they had been in the service of the greater good, but was killed by a vengeful Jennifer.^[20]

Haytham then liberated the Albertines, who were still being held prisoner by Birch, but was impaled by Lucio with a sword. Despite this, Haytham ordered Holden to let the Albertines go before falling unconscious. Holden complied and, over the following months, nursed Haytham back to health alongside Jennifer. Once Haytham had fully recovered by January 1758, Holden committed suicide, unable to cope with his own injury.^[20]

Following Holden's funeral, Haytham decided to return to the colonies to lead the Colonial Rite as its Grand Master while Jennifer went back to London to live in the Kenway Mansion.^[20] The two stayed in touch over the following years through letters, and Haytham also protected his sister and their family home by preventing the British Rite from claiming the mansion for as long as Jennifer lived.^[23]^[24]

and Haytham protected Jennifer and the Mansion from the British Rite as long as she lived.^[20]^[24]

American Revolution

In 1773, just prior to the start of the American Revolutionary War, the British warship Windermere sailed around the Bahamas carrying a mysterious shipment of Templar interest. The ship and her fleet were destroyed by the Aquila, now captained by the Assassin Ratonhnhaké:ton, Haytham's son. Later that same year, the Leviathan, another British warship, attempted to sail from the Bahamas to England with an important Templar emissary, but it too was destroyed by the Aquila.^[21]

French Revolution

In the years leading up to the French Revolution, the British Templars became worried about the political and societal turmoil growing in France and by the rising power of the reformist faction in their French counterparts. As such, the Carrolls, a high-ranking family of the British Rite, took it upon themselves to eliminate Julie de la Serre, the wife of the traditionalist Grand Master François de la Serre. Julie was also her husband's second-in-command and, although more moderate than him, was herself a reformist. The British Templar Frederick Weatherall was Julie's lover before her marriage and he became her confidant and the swordmaster of her daughter, Élise de la Serre.^[23]

In 1776, the Carrolls made an unsuccessful attempt on Julie's life; one of their hitmen, the former Assassin Bernard Ruddock, left a clue of their involvement, which prompted Élise to travel to London ten years after her mother's death of consumption in 1778. During her trip, the Carrolls discovered that Élise, as the future French Grand Master, was not herself a staunch supporter of the monarchy or the old Templar ways, but they nonetheless decided to use her to infiltrate the Kenway Mansion and recover Haytham Kenway's old letters, which the Carrolls wanted to burn to hide Haytham's idea of uniting the Assassins and the Templars, a concept the British Templars saw as heresy.^[23]

The Carrolls had killed Monica and Lucio Albertine to allow Élise to pose as one of their descendant, Yvonne Albertine, and gain access to the Kenway Mansion. While Élise recovered the letters from Jennifer Scott, the Carrolls took Weatherall hostage and tried to kill Ruddock to eliminate his ties to them, but Élise saved her mentor and arrived in time to warn Ruddock to leave. She then gave the Carrolls letters from her lover Arno Dorian, claiming there were Haytham's notes, and they burnt them before immediately trying to kill Élise. However, their daughter May was killed instead, and Élise fled with the help of Weatherall, who had to have his leg amputated after it was shot.^[23]

At the eve of the French Revolution, the British fears came true when François was killed by the reformist Templars loyal to François-Thomas Germain, who became the new Grand Master of the French Rite. Later, as Élise tried to claim back her birthright and avenge her father, the feud between her and the Carrolls prevented her from counting on any help coming from the British Templars, who had been turned against her by the vengeful parents. Only Frederick Weatherall helped Élise in her quest for revenge.^[23]

During the Reign of Terror, Templars of the Old Guard were guillotined in Paris by the radical faction of Germain. A British Templar decided to rescue them and took the name of the Crimson Rose, founding the Crimson League. The Crimson League was helped by Arno Dorian, who was an Assassin and oblivious to the fact that the Crimson Rose was a Templar. The two later discovered each other's allegiance and all the members of the Crimson League, including the Crimson Rose himself, were promptly killed by Arno.^[11]

In 1794, Élise died during a confrontation with Germain in the Temple of Paris. Before her death, she gave Haytham's letters to Weatherall, who was residing in the Maison Royale de Saint-Louis with Élise's former handmaiden Hélène and her husband Jacques. Élise also sent a letter to Ruddock where she promised he would receive Haytham's letters and be reintroduced in the Brotherhood if he contacted Arno, who was no longer an Assassin but had helped Élise in her vendetta and killed Germain. However, Ruddock had been secretly hired by the Carrolls to kill Weatherall and Hélène for their involvement in their daughter's death, and used this opportunity to try and complete his mission.^[23]

After meeting with Arno as instructed, Ruddock followed him to the Maison Royal, where he tried to kill everyone present after explaining his true intentions. He decided to begin with Arno, but just as he was about to shoot him, he was killed by Weatherall. Afterwards, Weatherall allowed Arno to keep all of Élise's former belongings, including Haytham's letters.^[23]

In 1805, Jennifer Scott passed away and the British Templars purchased the Kenway Mansion to discover its secrets. However, they left the estate mostly untouched for several years, out of respect for Haytham's memory.^[24]

The Victorian Age

Conquest of India

At the dawn of the 19th century, the British Templars made use of the East India Company, who controlled the majority of the Indian subcontinent's landmass. Around the 1830s, the Templars in India were led by Francis Cotton, a general of the British Army who accompanied William Hay Macnaghten, the aide of the Governor-General George Eden. Macnaghten became an ally of the Templar.^[25] Cotton was also in possession of a Precursor box, which had been recovered from the French Assassins by the Templar Shay Cormac decades prior.^[19]^[26]

Another of the British Templars, William Sleeman, was a captain of the East India Company and organized the suppression of the Thuggee assassins in India between 1835 and 1839. Sleeman believed that the Thuggee had a connection with the Indian Brotherhood of Assassins but it was never proved. Sleeman also met the Scottish explorer Alexander Burnes and inducted him in the Order. Burnes began to searched Pieces of Eden, especially the scepter of Alexander the Great which was believed to be in Afghanistan.^[26]

In 1839, the Sikh Empire was the last independent kingdom of India. Cotton planned to assassinate the sultan Ranjit Singh to take his empire and also recovered the Koh-i-Noor, a piece of Eden which look like a diamond. During a party in the Ranjit Singh's summer palace in Amritsar, Cotton met the Assassin Arbaaz Mir, who posed as an emissary. Each one understood the allegiance of the other, but even if Mir had for mission to prevent the death of Ranjit, he declared to Cotton that he had his own grieves against the sultan. In fact, Mir also searched the Koh-i-Noor and found it in a vault under the palace. Cotton alerted the palace guard of the presence of a thief, Mir was imprisoned in the palace. This act permitted to Cotton to have a private meeting with the sultan.^[25]

As Macnaghten discussed with Ranjit, Cotton poisoned the sultan's tea. Mir succeeded to escape from the dungeon with the help of Pyara Kaur, Ranjit's great-daughter, and he interrupted the meeting. But it was to late, the sultan already drank the poison and died soon after. Cotton ran away while the Assassin fought the palace guards. During his escape, Cotton saw Pyara with the Koh-i-Noor. Believing she was an Assassin, he tried to stab her but was arrested by Raza Soora, Mir's servant. As he tried to kill Soora, Pyara activated the Koh-i-Noor and was possessed by the Isu Durga. Scared, Cotton shot on the Koh-i-Noor, scattering the piece of Eden and creating an explosion which killed Cotton.^[25]

After Cotton's death, Sleeman took the head of the operation in India. He obtained the precursor box and the information about Amritsar's vault and the Koh-i-Noor. In 1841, the Templars kidnapped the Mentor of the Indian Brotherhood Hamid and took the Koh-i-Noor. Sleeman entered in the vault under the palace with the two artifacts. Arriving in the Prophecy room, he used the Koh-i-Noor as a power source for the box and a holographic map appeared showing the location of another Isu temple in Herat, in Afghanistan. Sleeman was confronted by Mir, who had saved his Mentor and followed Sleeman in the vault. The Templar shot on the Assassin but Mir dodged the bullet. The shot provoked the collapsing of the vault. Sleeman escaped and went to Afghanistan with Burnes and an army.^[26]

Herat was a sieged due to the war between the British Army and the Afghans. While the British defended the fortress, Sleeman and other Templars entered in the temple under the building. They took an elevator and discovered a pedestal and Mir, who infiltrated the Citadelle and helped the Afghans to entered in Herat. Surrounded by too many guns, the Assassin surrendered and was knocked out. While Sleeman stayed in Afghanistan to fight, Burnes went to the Katasraj Temple with Mir to interrogate him. The Assassin escaped and stole the Koh-i-Noor and the precursor box. During his escape, he met Burnes who proposed a duel to death against him. Burnes used some tricks against Mir but the Assassin defeated him. The Templar was ready to be killed but Mir spared his life to remember that he was defeated by an Assassin.^[26]

Later Sleeman returned to Amritsar and the Templars invaded the summer palace. They took Pyara Kaur as a hostage to bring Mir with the pieces of Eden. The Assassin killed the Templars in the palace and confronted Sleeman who bargained Pyara's life against the box and the diamond. When Mir sent the artifacts, Pyara stabbed Sleeman and flew with the Assassin who recovered the Koh-i-Noor before they left the palace. Sleeman took the precursor box which stayed in Templar possession for decades.^[26]^[27]

During the 1842 retreat of Kabul, the Templar and British Army colonel Walter Lavelle deserted with a corporal named Cavanagh, who discovered his allegiance and wanted to use his influence in exchange of saving his life. The two flew with a sepoy and confronted Afghan hillmen. Cavanagh received a scar in the face during the battle. They disguised as the hillmen but met a group of Afghan. Cavanagh gave the sepoy as their prisoner and the two British went to Jalalabad. Years later, Lavelle returned in London with Cavanagh and introduced him in the Order. Cavanagh killed Lavelle with the consent of the Order.^[28]

Starrick Industries

By the 1850s, Crawford Starrick, the owner of Starrick Industries, became the Grand Master of British Rite. Through his company and his leadership, the Templars had brought under their control almost all forms of governance within the city of London. With Starrick Telegraph Company, the Templars controlled the information in the city. Starrick's cousin, the Templar Pearl Attaway controlled the transport network while the political, medicinal and scientific fields were being guided by the Earl of Cardigan, Dr. John Elliotson, and Dr. David Brewster, respectively. In 1862, Starrick purchased Ferris Ironworks and inducted his owner, Rupert Ferris, into the Templar Order.^[24]

Moreover, by paying off criminals to form their own gang, the Blighters, and installing their own as their leaders under the supervision of Maxwell Roth, in a decade the Templars had taken almost complete control of London streets and boroughs, and operated a monopoly on organized crime in the city.^[24]

The Templars searched also Pieces of Eden in the city. During an auction for a manuscript, Starrick was outbid by Lucy Thorne, a young occultist. As she refused to give the manuscript, Starrick inducted her into the Order as his lieutenant and Thorne helped him to find Pieces of Eden.^[24]Around 1862, the Templars located under the Metropolitan Railway's construction site an Apple of Eden, a piece of Isu technology that could control minds. They charged Cavanagh to recover the Piece of Eden but in fact, Cavanagh wanted to use the artifact to usurp the position of Grand Master from Starrick.^[28]

Working as the director of the construction site, Cavanagh was associated with the Templars Marchant, manager of the construction site, and Robert Waugh, a pornographic photographer. Boot, Waugh's associate, was interrogated by the Assassin Ethan Frye for information on Templar activities. To hide his identity, Waugh shot in Boot in the head and tried to kill the Assassin but accidentally killed a bystander girl. Frye killed Waugh and ordered his apprentice the Ghost, Jayadeep Mir, son of Arbaaz and Pyara, to place the corpse on the Metropolitan Railway's construction site.^[28]

The body was discovered by the engineer John Fowler and the solicitor Charles Pearson and his wife. They called the Police Constable Frederick Abberline to investigate the murder. As Cavanagh was interrogated by Abberline, Jayadeep, who was posing as a worker under the name of Bharat Singh, came to the defense of Cavanagh by leading the Constable and a false track and exchanging Waugh's body with a dead pony. As he helped them, Jayadeep infiltrated the Templars.^[28]

As Abberline continued his investigation, the Templars beat his colleague the Constable Aubrey to sent a message. Cavanagh also suspected Jayadeep's identity, so he ordered the Indian Templars to capture the Assassins Kulpreet and Ajay. The first Assassin committed suicide but the second one accepted to join the Templars in London and revealed Jayadeep's true allegiance. Then Cavanagh ordered Jayadeep to kill Pearson to prove his loyalty. Cavanagh wanted to frame the Assassin and recover the Apple of Eden that Pearson had discovered on the Metropolitan Railway's construction site and used as an ornament.^[28]

In September 1862, the construction of the Metropolitan Railway was finished. During the celebration, as Jayadeep refused to kill an innocent, Cavanagh assassinated Pearson and took the Apple of Eden. Cavanagh tried to kill Jayadeep and Frye with the Piece of Eden but the tunnel collapsed due to the Apple. As the two Assassins flew, Cavanagh was assassinated by Marchant on the order of Starrick, who knew about Cavanagh's plan to usurp the position of Grand Master. The Templars also took revenge on Jayadeep by killing his friend Maggie who lived in the Thames Tunnel.^[28] Later the Apple was given to Dr. Brewster to be examined in his secret laboratory in Croydon.^[24]

In 1867, the Templar Philip Twopenny became the de facto governor of the Bank of England. That same year, Starrick purchased the transport company of Malcolm Millner, who was known to sabotage the companies of his competitors. Inducted into the Order, a rivalry began between Attaway and Millner to control the transport monopoly.^[24]

In February 1868, in the city of Croydon, Rupert Ferris and David Brewster were respectively killed by the Assassins Jacob and Evie Frye, Ethan's twin children. During the assassination of Dr. Brewster, the Apple of Eden which had been connected to a machine created an explosion that destroyed the laboratory and the Piece of Eden itself. Even if the Templars lost the artifact, Lucy Thorne was on the track of another Piece of Eden, a Shroud of Eden, which could heal the sick. Starrick wanted to use the Piece of Eden to be the sole ruler of London after the Templars eliminated all the heads of church and state. The only information on the Shroud was that Edward Kenway had hidden it in London a century ago.^[24]

After the double assassination in Croydon, the Templars began to lose power in London as the Frye twins came to the city. The two Assassins allied with Jayadeep, known at this time as Henry Green, and formed their own gang, the Rooks, to fight the Blighters. Their first confrontation was in Whitechapel, where the Blighter's leader and Templar Rexford Kaylock demanded a gang fight for the control of the borough. As Kaylock was killed, the Blighters under his control joined the Rooks. The Frye Twins also claimed Kaylock's train as a hideout.^[24]

The Frye siblings continued to claim the boroughs of London by killing Templars, arresting Blighters for the Sergeant Abberline, liberating children in the Templar factories and attacking gang strongholds. The Blighters' operations were also sabotaged by the Fryes who worked with the criminal Ned Wynert who gave information on the Blighters' contraband. When the Rooks challenged the control of a borough, the Templar leader set a gang fight but the Frye twins won every time against their enemies.^[24]

As Starrick Telegraph Company controlled the information in London, the inventor Alexander Graham Bell allied with the Frye siblings to sabotage the Telegraph Company. With the information they received, the Assassins destroyed a poison cargo. As the Templars tried to intimidate Bell, the Frye twins protected him.^[24]

Later, Dr. Elliotson, who was at this time the director of Lambeth Asylum, developed the Starrick's Soothing Syrup, a concoction containing distilled opium and datura stramonium which made the London's citizens more controllable. As the Syrup damaged the minds of the people, Jacob Frye and Charles Darwin destroyed the Syrup's distillation factory, ending the production of the concoction. Later Dr. Elliotson was killed by Jacob in the middle of public operation in Lambeth Asylum. With Elliotson dead, the Templars couldn't reproduce the Syrup. Some criminals tried to sell their own concoctions but they either failed to help, or made people outright sick. The new director of Lambeth Asylum, Florence Nightingale tried to treat the ill with the help of Evie Frye.^[24]

As Charles Darwin helped Jacob to destroy the Syrup, the Templars targeted Darwin, ridiculing his theories and trying to kill him. The Frye siblings protected Darwin and his work.^[24]

The rivalry between Starrick and Attaway grew as the Grand Master tried to buy Attaway Transport to control all the transport of London with Millner. As Millner sabotaged her carriages, Attaway struck a partnership with Jacob Frye, who was oblivious of her Templar allegiance. The Assassin destroyed Millner's omnibuses and stole the internal combustion engines for Attaway. After Jacob assassinated Millner, Attaway met Starrick and bargained her reconciliation with Starrick against the internal combustion engines. In Waterloo station, while Attaway was preparing the transportation of the engines in her train, Jacob killed her after he had discovered her true allegiance. The Assassin stole the engines again, this time from the Templars.^[24]

Attaway's death was a heavy blow to Starrick, who had proposed to her, only to be turned down. In response to Attaway's demise, Starrick reinforced the Templar presence in the city to track down the Fryes. With the death of Millner and Attaway, the transport monopoly was suffering of a power vacuum. The Blighters wanted to create their own company and forced the omnibus builder Edward Bayley to work for them. Evie Frye managed to save Bayley and stole the deed to Attaway Transport from the Blighters, and Bayley pronounced the birth of the London General Omnibus Company.^[24]

As Lucy Thorne searched for the Shroud, she discovered a crate containing many objects, among which was the journal of Edward Kenway. The Frye twins stole the crate but only recovered the journal as the Templars followed them. Later, Thorne investigated the Kenway Mansion to discover clues about the location of the Piece of Eden but Evie Frye and Henry Green discovered a secret room before Lucy and took the objects in it before Thorne could catch them.^[24]

Thorne lateer decided to follow Evie to a secret vault in St. Paul's Cathedral, where Kenway had hidden the key to the box that held the Shroud. The Templar and the Assassin fought and Thorne fled with the key. Afterwards, Thorne located the Shroud in the Tower of London. With other Templars, she infiltrated the castle to search for the artifact. They found no trace of the Piece of Eden but one of the guards brought Evie before Thorne. Unbeknownst to Thorne, the guard was an ally of the Assassins and it was a ruse to approach Thorne, who was killed by Evie, who reclaimed the key in the process.^[24]

With his position as governor of the Bank of England, Philip Twopenny, under the pseudonym of Plutus, organized heists to finance the plans of the Templars. His crimes attracted the attention of Sergeant Abberline and Jacob Frye, who later discovered that the heists were inside jobs. During one of his heists, Twopenny was killed in his personal vault by Jacob and his acolytes were arrested by Abberline. The news of the death of the Bank of England's governor led to the near-total collapse of the British economy. Crawford Starrick increased the wages paid to his workers in order to stave off the effects of inflation, and to maintain his grip on the workforce. Some of Twopenny's acolytes fled with the printing plates to counterfeit money but Evie Frye found the plates, took them back and burned the fake money, restoring trust in British currency.^[24]

As the new Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli wanted to pass the Corrupt Practices Act to reducing electoral corruption, the Earl of Cardigan hired hitmen to kill Disraeli and stop the vote. However, the hitmen were stopped by Jacob Frye, saving the life of the Prime Minister. During the vote session of the Corrupt Practices Act in the Palace of Westminster, the Earl of Cardigan was killed by Jacob, ending the political plots of Starrick.^[24]

As the Rooks took control of the boroughs of London, Maxwell Roth decided to rebel against Starrick and teamed up with Jacob to accomplish this. However, their alliance quickly shattered when Jacob realized Roth was willing to go to such extremes as bombing a factory full of child laborers in order to disrupt Starrick's production lines.^[24]

Left as the last member of the British Rite, Starrick accelerated his plans to obtain the Shroud of Eden, and eliminate the ruling class of England. The Templars recovered plans of a vault in Buckingham Palace where the Shroud was hidden. During a party in Buckingham, the Templars infiltrated the Palace, some of them replacing the royal guards. During this night, Starrick met Evie Frye and danced with her, stealing the key of the Shroud's box. While the Grand Master waited for the Templars disguised as guards to shoot on the ruling class of the city, Jacob Frye killed the impostors and freed the real guards. Starrick fled with the key after Evie kicked him in the groin.^[24]

Arriving at the entrance of the vault in the Buckingham's gardens, the Templars blew it up and entered the vault. There, Starrick donned the Shroud and fought the Frye siblings. The Piece of Eden healed the injuries that the Assassins inflicted on Starrick and he succeeded in gaining the upper hand on the twins. But Starrick was distracted by Henry Green who attacked the Templar, only to be knocked out swiftly. The Fryes attacked Starrick together and managed to tear the Shroud off of him. Without the artifact, the Grand Master was defenseless against the attack of the Fryes, who ended his life. With Starrick's death, the British Rite had been brought to an end.^[24]

Loss of power in London

Despite Starrick's death, lower-ranking Templars of the British Rite scrambled to replace their leadership. One such faction attempted to regain their power by committing acts of terrorism against London. One of their attacks targeted the Palace of Westminster and to kill Prime Minister Disraeli, but the Frye siblings killed their leader and stopped the bombs.^[24]

The Templars, led by Brinley Ellsworth, later aligned themselves with the British Indies Company in attempting to stop Duleep Singh from reclaiming his birthright as Maharajah. Their first plan was to kill Duleep in Buckingham's Gardens but the Fryes stopped this. The Templars also stole the Maharajah's letters and India's gold but the Assassins recovered them. As Duleep tried to send the gold in India, the Templars tried to stop the ship departing from London with the gold but they were another time stopped by the Assassins. As an act of vengeance, the Templars attacked Duleep in Southwark Station and stole the Train Hideout. The Fryes reclaimed their headquarters after killing the Templars. In the Tower of London, the Templars attempted to frame Singh for stealing the Koh-i-Noor, but their plot was thwarted by the Frye twins who took the diamond and left the castle with it. Ellsworth's true allegiances were exposed to Singh after the Assassin destroyed his factory concocting sleeping gas. Later, when Singh confronted Ellsworth, rather than let Evie Frye assassinate him, he chose to let Ellsworth live.^[24]

Even though the Templar presence in London had significantly decreased, the Order remained active within the city. In 1887, the Templars, known as the Secret Chiefs, financed the occultist Samuel Liddell Mathers to found the Hermetic Order of Golden Dawn.^[29]

During the Autumn of Terror in 1888, the rogue Assassin and serial killer Jack the Ripper captured Templars and sent them to his personal prison at Deptford. Some of them were killed during execution until Evie Frye rescued them. One Templar was interrogated by the police but was killed by the Ripper as the former Assassin erased his traces.^[24]

Modern times

In 1900, one of the Secret Chiefs by the Hermeticists, dissolved the ties between the Order and the Golden Dawn after they discovered that Mathers killed the cofounder of the Golden Dawn, William Robert Woodman.^[29]

During the World War I, the Templars organized a spy ring in London on behalf of the German Empire. These Templars were led by a man known as the Master Spy, who was also a Sage, a reincarnation of the Isu Aita. The spies became a part of the Instruments of the First Will, a group that worshiped Aita's wife, the Isu Juno, as the ruler of humankind. The group caught the attention of Winston Churchill who worked with the Assassin Lydia Frye, Jacob's grand-daughter, to eradicate the spy ring. The Master Spy was killed by the Assassin in 1916 and his followers were driven out of London.^[24]

By 1927, Thaddeus Gift had become Grand Master of the British Rite, though he betrayed the Order by stealing from his fellow Templars and using their contacts to embezzle money. Gift's corruption led to the The Nine ordering their feared inquisitor, the Black Cross, to execute him for his crimes. In February, the current Black Cross, Albert Bolden, tracked Gift across the streets of London, before eventually killing him and cutting out his Templar ring finger.^[7]

Churchill with the Templar puppets Roosevelt and Stalin at the Yalta Conference

The Templars were later responsible for World War II, a Templar plot devised to create their New World Order. To this end, they influenced various world leaders, including Winston Churchill, who was the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom at the time.^[1]

From 1979 to 1990, Margaret Thatcher was manipulated by the Templar shadow-company Abstergo Industries while she held the position of Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. During her reign, she installed Boris Yeltsin, another Templar puppet, as Russia's new president.^[30]

Members

Early Middle Ages / Viking Age

First War of Scottish Independence

Cornavii

Hundred Years' War

John, Duke of Bedford

Renaissance

Golden Age of Piracy

Georgian and Colonial Eras

Reginald Birch (Grand Master; 1735 - 1757)
Edward Braddock (left)
May Carroll
Peter Carroll
Mrs. Carroll
Benjamin Church (Colonial Rite)
Francis Cotton
Christopher Gist (Colonial Rite)
John Harrison
Thomas Hickey (Colonial Rite)
William Johnson (Colonial Rite)

Victorian Era

Beatrice Gribble
Samuel Hargrave
Hardy
Other Hardy
Kent Jekyll
Raphael Jekyll
Rexford Kaylock
Walter Lavelle
William Lloyd
Victor Lynch
Marchant
Malcolm Millner
Peter Needham
Bloody Nora
Pearce
"Big" Pete
Myrtle Platt
Octavia Plumb
Benjamin Raffles
Reynolds
William Sleeman
Smith
Crawford Starrick (Grand Master; ? - 1868)
Cletus Strain
Chester Swinebourne
Edith Swinebourne
Lucy Thorne
Philip Twopenny
Robert Waugh

Modern Era

Allies and puppets

Middle Ages

John, King of England