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Meanwhile such giants as Alexander Hales and Roger Bacon and Duns Scotus among the Minorites all Englishmen be it remembered and Thomas Aquinas and Albertus Magnus among the Dominicans, had given to intellectual life that amazing lift into a higher region of thought, speculation, and inquiry which prepared the way for greater things by-and-by.
We were likewise enjoined by the supreme pontiff, that we should examine and inquire into every thing very diligently; all of which, both myself and friar Benedict of the same order, my companion in affliction and interpreter, have carefully performed. Of the first Mission of Friars Predicants and Minorites to the Tartars.
Outside the city walls at Lynn and York and Bristol; in a filthy swamp at Norwich, through which the drainage of the city sluggishly trickled into the river, never a foot lower than its banks; in a mere barn-like structure, with walls of mud, at Shrewsbury, in the "Stinking Alley" in London, the Minorites took up their abode, and there they lived on charity, doing for the lowest the most menial offices, speaking to the poorest the words of hope, preaching to learned and simple such sermons short, homely, fervent, and emotional as the world had not heard for many a day.
Jesuits, Augustines, Benedictines, Capucins, Minorites, Franciscans, Dominicans, Carthusians, and Knights of the Cross! privateers, canons regular and irregular, sluggards, rascals, scoundrels, imps, and villains all! donkeys, buffaloes, oxen, fools, blockheads, numskulls, and foxes! What means this? Four soldiers and three shoulder-belts!
To these questions, and to a host of others poured out in succession upon her by the two friends, she made no answer save gurgling sounds in the throat, more like animal sounds than anything uttered by a human voice. "Don't you see that she is deaf and dumb?" said M. d'Albon. "Minorites!" the peasant woman said at last. "Ah! she is right.
Thirdly, it shalbe lawfull for anie whatsoeuer to play with false dice in a corner on the couer of this foresaid Acts and monuments. None of the fraternitie of the minorites shall refuse it for a pawne in the times of famine and necessitie.
For this purpose, six monks were selected from the new and severe orders of predicants and minorites.
As with the later history of the Friars in England, so with the corruptions of the Mendicant orders though they were as great as malice or ignorance may have represented them I am not concerned. That the Minorites of the fourteenth century were very unlike the Minorites of the thirteenth I know; that the other Mendicant orders declined, I cannot doubt
A stranger now appeared in the open door. It was a young man in the garb of the Minorites. "Murderer!" screamed the King, and sprang up. "No," answered the monk, "I am he whom you called Vincent of Paula." "My deliverer! say a word a single word of comfort." "Sire," answered Vincent, "I have heard your confession, and will give you absolution in virtue of my office." "Speak." "Very well.
Released from this dreaded enemy, the King made a fairer plan of Government for Scotland, divided the offices of honour among Scottish gentlemen and English gentlemen, forgave past offences, and thought, in his old age, that his work was done. But he deceived himself. Comyn and Bruce conspired, and made an appointment to meet at Dumfries, in the church of the Minorites.
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