I am working on a project for a church history class on the Avignon Papacy, specifically highlighting how Clement V did Philip's bidding, and I'm having an exceptionally difficult time locating this primary source document. If anyone knows where I might be able to find the original order I would be highly appreciative.
You can find Philip's orders in Malcolm Barber and Keith Bate, The Templars: Selected Sources, (Manchester University Press, 2007), along with lots of other documents about the arrests and trials, in part 6, starting on page 243. The order for the arrests, which was actually issued in September, starts on the next page, 244. The one translated by Barber and Bate was issued to the bailli of Rouen:
"Wherefore we entrust to you and strictly order you personally or two of your agents to proceed to the bailliage of Rouen and arrest all the brothers of that Order without exception; you will hold them captive to appear before an ecclesiastical court; you will seize their movable and immovable goods and hold the seizures under strict supervision in our name without any diminution or damage of any sort, according to our orders and instructions transmitted to you under our counterseal, until you receive further instructions from us on this matter. Further, we give instructions by the terms of the present document to those who are faithful to us, judges and subjects, effectively to obey you and to observe the aforementioned totally and individually, and all things relative to them." (pg. 246-247)
The same orders were given to officials in other parts of the kingdom. These orders were in Latin, and there were further instructions in French on how to interrogate the knights once they had been arrested.
So your best bet is to check out Barber and Bate's book for all the translated sources. Lots has been written about the arrests and trials in different parts of Europe, but for a general history, see also Malcolm Barber, The Trial of the Templars (Cambridge University Press, 2006).
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