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[234] S. Francis. de Perfecta Laet.i.tia; Ejusd. Epistt. xi., xv.--Waddingi Annal. ann. 1298, No. 24-40.--Cantu, Eretici d'Italia, I. 128.

[235] Lib. Conform. Lib. I. Fruct. 8, fol. 47.--Thom. de Eccleston Collat. I.--Frat. Jordani Chron. c. 27 (a.n.a.lecta Franciscana I. 10).--S.

Francis. Collat. Monasticae, Collat. 20.

[236] Waddingi Annal. ann. 1262, No. 3, 4, 8; ann. 1273, No. 12.

[237] S. Francis. Collat. Monast. Collat. 5.--Ejusd. pro Paupertate obtinenda Oratio.--Lib. Conform. Lib. III. Fruct. 4, fol. 215_a_.

[238] S. Francis. Colloq. 27.--Th. de Eccleston de Adventu Minorum Collat. 1, 2.

[239] Philip. Bergomat. Supplem. Chronic. Lib. XIII. ann.

1215.--Bonavent. Vit. S. Fran. c. IV. No. 5; c. XI--Regula Fratrum Sororumque de Pnitentia.--Potthast Regest. No. 6736, 7503, 13073.--Chron. Magist. Ordin. Praedicat. c. 2, 9.--Raynald. Annal. ann.

1233, No. 40.--Nicolai PP. IV. Bull. _Supra montem_, ann. 1289.

[240] Chron. Augustens. ann. 1250.--Matt. Paris. ann. 1252.

[241] Pierre de Fontaines, Conseil, ch. xxi. art. 8.--Le Grand d'Aussy, Fabliaux, II. 112-3.--The existence of the "droit de marquette" has been questioned, but without reasonable ground. The authorities may be found in the author's "Sacerdotal Celibacy," 2d Ed. p. 354.

[242] Matt. Paris ann. 1251 (pp. 550-2).--Guillel. Nangiac. ann.

1251.--Amalrici Augerii Vit. Pontif. ann. 1251.--Bern. Guidon. Flor.

Chronic. (Bouquet, XXI. 697). A similar extraordinary movement took place in 1309 (Chron. Corn. Zanflict ann. 1309), and another, on a larger scale, in 1320 (Guill. Nangiac. Contin. ann. 1320.--Grandes Chroniques V. 245-6.--Amal. Auger. Vit. Pontif. ann. 1320).

[243] Monach. Paduan. Lib. III. ann. 1260.--Chron. F. Francisci Pipini ann. 1260.--Gesta Treviror. Archiep. c. 268.--Closener's Chronik (Chron.

der deutschen Stadte, VIII. 73, 104).--Lami, Antichita Toscane, p.

617.--Verri, Storia di Milano, I. 264.

[244] Potthast Regest. No. 8324, 8326, 9775, 10905, 11169, 11296, 11319, 11399, 11415.--Ripoll. I. 99.--Matt. Paris ann. 1234 (pp.

274-6).--Wadding. Annal. ann. 1295, No. 18.--Mag. Bull. Roman. I.

174.--Ripoll II. 40.

The exemption of the Mendicants from all local jurisdiction save that of their own Orders was a source of almost inconceivable trouble in every portion of Christendom. When, for instance, in 1435, the legates of the Council of Basle were on their way to Brunn to settle the terms of pacification with the Hussites, they were called upon in Vienna to silence a Franciscan whose abusive sermons created disorder, and it was with much trouble that they forced him to admit that, as representing a general council, they had authority to discipline him. On their arrival at Brunn they found the public agitated over a dreadful scandal, the Dominican provincial having seduced a nun of his own order. The woman had borne a child to him, and no steps had been taken against him. The ordinary judicial machinery of the Church was utterly powerless to deal with him, and the precautions which the legates deemed it prudent to take before they ventured to commence proceedings show how arduous and dangerous they felt the task to be, though when they got to work they sentenced him to deposition and imprisonment for life on bread and water.--aegidii Carlerii Liber de Legationibus (Monument. Concil.

General. Saec. XV. T. I. pp. 544-8, 553, 555, 557, 563-6, 572, 577, 587, 590, 595). This, however, seems to have been a mere _brutum fulmen_, as there is no allusion to any attempt to execute the sentence.

[245] Potthast No. 11040, 11041:--The usefulness of the Mendicants in aiding the papacy to unlimited domination is seen in the condemnation, by the University of Paris, in 1429, of the Franciscan Jean Sarrasin for publicly teaching that the whole jurisdiction of the Church is derived from the pope. He was forced to admit that it was bestowed by G.o.d on the several cla.s.ses of the hierarchy, and that the authority of councils rested, not on the pope, but on the Holy Ghost and the Church (D'Argentre, Coll. Judic. de nov. Error. I. ii. 227).

[246] Richard, de S. Germano Chron. ann. 1229, 1239.--Potthast Regesta No. 10725, 13360.--Ripoll I. 158, 172.--Hist. Diplom. Frid. II. T. VI.

pp. 405, 699-701, 710-11. Waddingi Annal. ann. 1246, No. 4; ann. 1253, No. 35-6.--Martene Ampliss. Coll. II. 1192.--Barbarano de' Mironi, Hist.

Eccles. di Vicenza, II. 73.

[247] Potthast Regesta No. 7380, 8027, 8028, 10343, 10363, 10364, 10365, 10804, 10807, 10906, 10956, 10964, 11008, 11159.--Martene Thesaur. V.

1812.--Hist. Diplom. Frid. II. T. III. p. 416.--Gest. Archiep.

Trevirens. c. 190-271.

[248] Martene Ampliss. Collect. I. 1146-9.--Innoc. PP. III. Regest. XV.

240.--Berger, Registres d'Innocent IV. No. 2712.

[249] Const.i.t. Frat. Praedic. ann. 1228, Dist. II. cap. 32, 33 (Archiv.

fur Litt. und Kirchengeschichte, 1886, p. 224).--Innoc. PP. III. Regest.

IX. 185.--S. Francis. Orac. XXII.--Ejusd. Regul. Sec. c. 9.--Stephan. de Borbone (D'Argentre, Collect. Judic. de nov. Error. I. I. 90-1).--Bern.

Guidon. (Martene Ampl. Collect. VI. 530).--Potthast Regest. No. 6508, 6542, 6654, 6660, 7325, 7467, 7468, 7480, 7890, 10316, 10332, 10386, 10629, 10630, 10657, 10990, 10999, 11006, 11299, 15355, 16926, 16933.--Martene Thesaur. I. 954.--Concil. Narbonn. ann. 1227 c.

19.--Baluz. Concil. Gall. Narbon. App. pp. 156-9.

There were not many prelates like Robert Grosseteste of Lincoln, who wrote to both Jordan and Elias, the generals of the two Orders, to let him have friars, as his diocese was large and he required help in the duties of preaching and hearing confessions.--Fascic. Rer. Expetend. et Fugiend. II. 334-5. (Ed. 1690).

[250] Brev. Hist. Ord. Praedic. (Martene Ampl. Coll. VI. 357).--Extrav.

Commun. Lib. III. t.i.t. vi. c. 8.--Concil. Nimociens. ann. 1298, c.

17.--Const.i.t. Joann. Archiep. Nicos. ann. 1321, c. 10.--C. Avenionens.

ann. 1326, c. 27; ann. 1337, c. 82.--C. Vaurens. ann. 1368, c. 63, 64.--Epistt. Saeculi XIII. T.I. No. 437 (Monument. Germ. Hist.).--Berger, Les Registres d'Innoc. IV. No. 1875-8, 3252-5, 3413.--Ripoll I. 25, 132-33, 153-4; II. 61, 173; VII. 18.--Matt. Paris ann. 1234, p. 276; ann. 1235, pp. 286-7; ann. 1255, p. 616.--Potthast Regesta No. 8786_a_, 8787-9, 10052.--Trithem. Annal. Hirsaug. ann. 1268.--Conc. Biterrens.

ann. 1233, c. 9.--C. Arelatens. ann. 1234, c. 2.--C. Albiens. ann. 1254, c. 17, 18.--S. Bonaventurae Libell. Apologet. Quaest. 1.--Abbat. Joachimi Concordiae v. 49.

The details of the disgusting quarrels over the dying and dead are impressively set forth in a composition attempted by Boniface VIII., in 1303, between the clergy of Rome and the Mendicants (Ripoll II. 70). The constant litigation on the subject was one of the chief grievances of the spiritual section of the Franciscans (Hist. Tribulationum, _ap._ Archiv fur Litteratur-u. Kirchengeschichte, 1886, p. 297).

[251] Alex. PP. Bull. _Quasi lignum vitae_.--Waddingi Annal. ann. 1255, No. 2.--Dupin, Bib. des Auteurs eccles. T. X. ch. vii.

For the exemption of students from secular jurisdiction see Berger, Registres d'Innocent IV. No. 1515.--Molinier (Guillem Bernard de Gaillac, Paris, 1884, pp. 26 sqq.) gives a good account of the educational organization of the Dominicans at this period.

[252] Waddingi Annal. ann. 1234, No. 4, 5; ann. 1255, No. 3.--Brev.

Hist. Ord. Praed. (Martene Ampl. Coll. VI. 356-7).--Potthast Regesta No.

15562.--Matt. Paris, ann. 1253, p. 590.

William of St. Amour was a pluralist. Not satisfied with a canonry of Beauvais and a church with a cure of souls, we find him, in 1247, obtaining of Innocent IV. a dispensation to hold another cure.--Berger, Les Registres d'Innoc. IV. No. 3188.

[253] Waddingi Annal. ann. 1254, No. 3; ann. 1255, No. 5.--Brevis Historia (Martene VI. 357).--Martene Thesaur. I. 1059.

[254] Waddingi Annal. ann. 1254, No. 20; ann. 1255, No. 1.--Ripoll I.

266-7.

[255] Ripoll I. 289, 291, 296, 298, 301, 306, 308, 311, 312, 320, 322, 324, 333, 334, 336, 342, 345, 350.--Matt. Paris ann. 1255, pp. 611, 616.--Wadding. Annal. ann. 1255, No. 4; ann. 1256, No.

20-37.--Fasciculus Rer. Expetend. II. 18 sqq. Ed. 1690.--Mag. Bull.

Roman. I. 112.--D'Argentre Collect. Judicior. de nov. Error. I. I. 170 sqq.--Guill. Nangiac. Gesta S. Ludov. ann. 1255.--Grandes Chroniques, IV. 373-4.--Bern. Guidon. Flor. Chron. (Bouquet, XXI. 698).

[256] Ripoll I. 346, 348, 349, 352-3, 372, 375-9.--Waddingi Annal. ann.

1256, No. 38; ann. 1257, No. 1-4, 6; ann. 1259, No. 3-6; ann. 1260, No.

10.--Clement. PP. IV. Bull. _Virtute conspicuos_, ann. 1265.--Dupin, Bib. des Auteurs eccles. T.X. ch. vii.

When, in 1632, an edition of St. Amour's works was published in Constance (Paris) the Dominicans had sufficient influence with Louis XIII. to obtain its suppression in a savage edict. All the copies were seized: to retain one was punishable with a fine of three thousand livres, and it was declared a capital offence for a bookseller to have a single copy for sale (Mosheim de Beghardis, p. 27). The "Pericula Novissimorum Temporum" had, however, been printed, with two of St.

Amour's sermons, by Wolfgang of Weissenburg in his "Antilogia Papae,"

Basle, 1555, and this was reprinted in London in 1688, and embodied by Brown in his edition of the "Fasciculus Rerum Expetendarum et Fugiendarum" in 1690.

[257] Bonavent. Apol. Pauperum. Resp. I. c. 1.--Waddingi Annal. ann.

1269, No. 6-8.

[258] Ripoll I. 338.

[259] Clement PP. IV. Bull. _Providentia_, ann. 1268.--Ripoll I. 341, 344.--Ptol. Lucens. Hist. Eccles. Lib. XXIII. c. 21, 24-5.--Henr.

Steronis Annal. ann. 1287, 1299.--Annal. Dominican. Colmariens. ann.

1277.--Waddingi Annal. ann. 1291, No. 97; ann. 1303, No. 32.--Concil.

Valentin. ann. 1255.--Concil. Ravennat. ann. 1259.--Martene Ampliss.

Collect. II. 1291.--Concil. Remens. ann. 1287.--Salimbene Chronica, pp.