¶
In
the
beginning
of
the
boke
,
an
Image
of
the
wounded
Idole
Fraunces
beyng
set
out
,
the
Freers
make
their
praier
therunto
,
in
this
sorte
.
Francisce
Iesu
typice
.
&c.
O
Frances
,
the
very
fygure
of
Iesu
christ
And
the
only
leder
&
rule
of
the
friers
obseruant
Deliuer
we
beseche
the
,
blessed
father
mooste
highest
The
soules
of
thy
seruauntes
,
that
to
the
are
attendaunt
.
From
euerlasting
death
and
paines
infernal
,
And
graunt
vs
the
life
&
ioyes
that
are
eternal
First
leafe
.
THe
question
is
of
Frances
mekenes
,
and
where
God
hath
placed
him
.
Answer
.
He
sitteth
in
the
first
and
chefest
degre
in
heauen
,
and
hath
his
seate
and
abiding
in
the
highest
place
.
The
ii
.
leaf
Frances
onely
obserued
the
letter
of
the
gospel
and
swarued
not
one
iote
or
title
,
The
same
leafe
When
S.
Frances
was
sicke
a
brother
of
his
desired
licence
the
he
might
reade
him
some
what
for
his
recreation
.
To
whome
Frances
answered
,
that
it
should
not
nede
,
for
he
had
sufficient
knowlege
&
saide
I
know
poore
Christ
crucified
.
The
same
leafe
O
howe
oft
times
our
Lorde
Iesus
appered
vnto
the
blessed
father
.
S
Frances
,
and
not
only
of
him
but
also
of
the
blessed
Virgin
Mary
,
of
Ihon
Baptist
Ihon
Euangelist
and
of
the
holy
apostles
Peter
and
Paul
,
and
of
the
Archangell
Michael
,
and
of
diuerse
other
angelles
he
was
visited
.
Thesame
leafe
.
While
S
Frances
praied
feruently
to
our
Lady
that
she
wold
obtein
comfort
for
her
of
her
litle
childe
Iesus
,
the
blessed
and
pure
virgin
,
was
incontinently
present
and
caught
him
in
her
armes
&
kissed
him
,
holding
him
from
the
beginning
of
the
night
vntil
it
was
daye
and
graunted
him
his
peticion
The
.iii.
leafe
Christ
calleth
Frances
his
Chauncelour
,
Thesauror
,
his
Banner
bearer
,
&
his
counsaillor
.
The
same
leafe
.
In
whome
at
any
time
hath
apered
the
print
of
the
woundes
of
Christ
?
Truly
in
none
but
in
holy
Frances
,
as
affirmeth
the
church
of
Rome
,
and
commaundeth
al
the
faithful
so
to
beleue
&c
And
also
pope
Benedict
ordeined
a
holy
day
to
be
kept
for
the
worshipping
of
those
impressions
.
The
same
leafe
.
In
the
handes
and
feete
of
Frances
were
Nailes
,
as
it
were
of
sinowes
and
fleshe
,
the
whiche
nailes
were
on
the
heddes
hard
&
grosse
,
they
were
long
&
stretched
●arre
bothe
thorow
his
handes
and
fete
,
and
turned
againe
as
it
were
clinched
,
so
that
a
finger
myghte
haue
bene
laied
betwene
the
clinching
as
the
righte
worshipful
Bonauenture
bishop
of
Albanence
and
Cardinall
of
Rome
in
the
third
parte
of
his
Legend
,
doth
affirme
by
the
credible
report
of
them
whiche
sawe
them
,
felte
them
and
by
their
othe
confirmed
it
so
to
be
.
Therefore
it
came
neither
by
nature
nor
yet
by
imaginacion
,
neither
could
nature
preserue
it
in
suche
manner
withoute
Putrificacion
,
if
by
any
Arte
it
hadde
bene
deuised
,
for
by
the
space
of
.ij.
yeres
out
of
those
woundes
issued
blod
The
church
doth
not
report
this
to
be
done
by
our
Lady
,
but
our
lord
Iesus
Christe
was
the
onely
worker
therof
by
his
godli
wil
,
might
and
power
,
and
none
but
himself
,
whiche
in
the
similitude
of
a
Seraphin
printed
in
Frances
,
his
blessed
woundes
.
Wherfore
he
that
is
mighty
hath
done
great
thinges
in
Frances
.
Luc.
i.
For
he
hath
set
wondres
vpon
him
.
Psal
xlv
.
And
blessed
Frances
may
say
,
as
Daniel
the
prophet
said
.
The
high
god
hath
wrought
vpon
me
wondres
and
miracles
.
The
iiii
lefe
Blessed
Frances
hath
greate
glory
in
heauen
,
for
he
sitteth
in
the
high
seate
of
Lucifer
.
And
if
according
to
the
minde
of
the
Master
of
the
sentence
.
ii
.
dist
i
&
viii
.
all
the
●ai●ctes
after
their
degrees
,
are
placed
emong
the
celestial
creatures
,
then
is
Frances
placed
among
the
Seraphins
whiche
may
well
be
,
for
while
he
liued
he
semed
to
be
a
burning
Seraphin
like
vnto
Christ
,
both
bodely
&
ghostly
.
And
that
Frances
was
a
burning
Seraphin
,
was
sufficiciently
declared
by
the
burning
and
fiery
Chariot
,
wherein
being
transfigured
,
he
apered
to
certein
of
his
brethern
Also
Freer
Masse
beyng
by
.
S
Frances
sodenly
rapt
and
taken
from
the
yerth
,
felt
such
an
heate
comming
from
Frances
,
that
he
semed
to
be
in
the
midle
of
a
burning
Fornace
.
Thesame
leafe
.
Lucifer
was
of
the
highest
ordre
in
heuen
,
therfore
it
foloweth
that
he
was
of
the
ordre
of
Seraphins
,
and
cosequently
his
seate
was
aboue
al
other
ordres
in
heauen
.
Wherefore
in
the
place
of
proude
Lucifer
is
set
meke
S.
Frances
,
whiche
by
deuine
teuel●cion
was
shewed
to
Freer
Pac●●cus
&
Freer
Leonard
of
Ausio
Thesame
leafe
Christ
made
Frances
like
to
him self
.
First
in
life
most
verteous
,
and
after
by
printing
in
him
his
woundes
,
wherefore
it
is
said
of
Frances
,
Eccle.
xlix
.
There
is
none
found
like
him
,
for
he
hathe
obserued
the
lawe
of
the
highest
.
Which
wordes
to
be
true
the
holines
,
vertue
and
redolent
fame
of
blessed
Frances
declare
.
He
was
also
a
man
of
a
sincere
life
,
and
from
the
pleasures
of
the
body
vtterly
segregate
.
Thesame
leafe
.
What
maner
of
persone
,
howe
and
to
what
purpose
,
God
made
Frances
,
is
declared
.
Gene.
i.
&
.
ii
.
where
is
written
,
let
vs
make
man
that
is
to
say
,
FRANCES
,
vnto
our
image
and
similitude
,
&
he
shall
gouern
the
fishes
of
the
sea
.
&c
And
let
vs
make
him
a
helper
like
to
him selfe
,
that
is
a
companye
of
poore
.
The
.v.
leafe
All
the
vertue
of
sainctes
aswel
of
the
Olde
Testament
as
of
the
new
are
conioyned
and
vnited
in
Frances
.
The
same
lefe
Iesus
put
Frances
next
him selfe
as
his
Standard
bearer
,
as
affirmeth
the
right
worshipfull
Raufe
bishop
of
Erphord
,
who
by
this
vision
was
made
a
barefore
Frier
,
and
ii
.
citizens
of
Venice
with
him
.
Also
Frances
in
all
thinges
was
like
to
the
sonne
of
god
,
and
the
holy
ghost
sanctified
Frances
as
witnesseth
the
cedule
which
Freer
This
is
the
grace
of
God
.
The
same
leafe
.
Our
blessed
Lady
praied
vnto
the
father
that
Frances
mighte
be
sent
into
the
worlde
.
Also
our
Lady
at
the
praier
of
Frances
obteined
the
great
pardon
that
is
in
the
churche
of
Saint
Marie
of
Porciuncle
wherin
is
clean
remission
and
forgeuenesse
of
sinnes
.
The
same
leafe
.
Peter
and
Paule
meting
Frances
in
the
churche
of
Rome
.
embraced
and
kissed
him
.
The
same
leafe
.
Whoso
calleth
and
trusteth
in
the
helpe
of
Frances
,
shall
not
be
oppressed
of
the
deuel
.
The
viii
leafe
It
is
vndoubtedly
to
be
beleued
,
that
aswell
the
saienges
of
the
prophetes
as
also
the
doinges
of
sainctes
,
were
all
prefigured
in
Frances
.
The
same
leafe
.
Frances
is
like
to
Adam
,
Abel
,
Enos
,
Enoch
,
Noe
,
Abraham
Isac
,
Iacob
,
Ioseph
,
Moses
Aaron
,
Phinees
,
Iosue
,
Samson
Iephte
,
Gedeon
,
Samuel
,
Hely
,
Elizeus
,
Ionadab
,
Esai
,
Ieremy
Iob
,
Thoby
,
Ezechiel
,
Daniel
,
Micheas
,
Peter
,
Ihon
Baptist
.
Ihon
Euangelist
,
Iames
,
Bartholomew
,
Paule
,
and
in
conclusion
all
the
sainctes
,
The
ix
leafe
.
Esaias
figured
Frances
in
the
sixt
Chapiter
,
whiche
heard
two
Seraphins
saiyng
,
Holy
.
Holy
,
Holy
,
And
Ezechiel
Chapi.
iii.
whiche
hearde
a
voice
of
greate
russhing
saiyng
,
blessed
be
the
glory
of
the
lord
.
Also
he
figured
Abraham
,
which
said
,
I
am
worme
and
dust
.
The
x.
leaf
Frances
is
like
to
Ely
and
Elizeus
whiche
raised
the
dead
to
life
again
.
Thesame
leafe
.
In
whatsoeuer
necessitie
.
S.
Frances
be
called
vpon
,
Christe
hath
bounde
him self
to
heare
the
caller
.
Thesame
leafe
The
doue
sent
from
Noe
out
of
the
Arke
,
signified
the
ordre
of
the
barefote
Friers
.
the
same
leafe
.
Also
the
figure
of
Ioseph
when
Phaaro
toke
him
his
ring
to
put
vpon
his
hand
.
Christ
gaue
to
none
of
his
sainctes
the
ring
of
the
expresse
figure
and
print
of
his
blessed
woundes
,
but
onely
to
Fraunces
.
Also
Gene
xl
.
the
vine
whiche
brought
furth
iij.
braunches
,
signified
.iij.
ordres
,
that
is
to
saye
.
the
Minorites
,
or
barefote
Friers
,
the
blacke
Friers
,
and
the
penitent
bretherne
and
sistern
.
Also
Iosue
whiche
was
Moses
minister
Figured
Frances
,
for
there
hath
none
serued
and
ministred
to
Christe
as
Frances
hath
done
.
Also
Frances
was
like
vnto
Elias
,
whiche
beyng
transfigured
appered
to
his
bretherne
in
a
fiery
Chariot
The
.iii.
children
in
the
burning
Fornace
,
&
the
fourthe
that
was
like
the
sonne
of
god
,
betokened
the
foure
ordres
,
Basilii
,
Augustine
Friers
,
Benedictes
,
&
Graye
Friers
,
whiche
were
the
fourth
,
that
is
to
say
,
like
vnto
the
sonne
of
God
in
life
,
for
they
are
Figured
and
Marked
with
the
woundes
The
Angell
whiche
sate
vpon
the
cloude
like
vnto
the
sonne
of
of
man
mencioned
in
the
Apocalips
The
xi
.
leafe
The
Turkes
by
the
ordre
of
Sainct
Frances
shal
be
conuerted
.
The
xii
.
leafe
Blessed
Frances
may
be
called
a
Rock
,
for
he
was
the
Sonne
of
Peter
Barnard
,
and
Peter
,
and
Rock
,
is
al
one
.
The
xiii
.
leafe
.
The
order
of
the
gray
Freers
shall
remayne
tyll
the
daye
of
Iudgement
for
so
was
yt
declared
by
reuelacion
to
S.
Frances
.
Thesame
leafe
.
This
saiyng
:
I
wil
be
his
father
and
he
shal
be
my
Sonne
,
is
not
to
be
vnderstande
only
of
the
sonne
of
god
,
but
of
those
saincts
whiche
shal
be
about
the
ende
of
the
worlde
,
that
is
to
saye
of
Frances
and
Dominyke
,
noble
and
ignoble
,
which
signified
ij
.
ordres
to
come
,
as
did
Caleb
and
Iosue
,
Manasses
and
Ephraim
,
Moses
and
Aaron
,
Ihon
&
Christ
,
Ely
and
Elizeus
,
Paul
and
Barna●as
,
the
two
spyes
that
went
into
Iericho
,
the
two
disciples
that
were
sent
to
lose
the
Asse
.
&c.
The
xiiii
leafe
The
comming
of
Frances
into
the
world
was
knowen
vnto
the
deuelles
,
as
it
is
expressed
in
the
legend
The
deuel
beyng
asked
of
the
holines
of
Saint
Frances
,
Thesame
leafe
.
The
name
of
Frances
is
diuulged
thorowout
all
the
world
.
Frances
is
knowen
and
declared
to
all
the
creatures
of
the
earth
,
of
what
kynde
so
euer
they
be
,
that
is
to
saye
,
of
the
Sea
,
the
Fyer
,
the
Ayer
,
and
the
Yearth
.
The
xvii
.
leafe
.
Frances
was
a
Patriarch
,
Prophet
,
Apostle
,
Martyr
.
Doctor
,
Confessor
,
Vyrgyn
,
Angell
,
and
nerer
to
Christ
then
all
other
Sainctes
,
as
this
present
worke
declareth
,
Thesame
leafe
.
Blessed
Frances
was
ordeyned
of
god
,
as
affirmeth
holy
church
,
for
pope
Gregory
the
ix
.
entred
him
in
the
register
or
booke
of
Saynctes
.
The
xviii
.
leafe
.
The
bowelles
of
Charite
were
shewed
in
Frances
,
for
with
wepyng
eyes
he
behelde
the
crosse
of
Christ
,
and
iij.
tymes
,
the
Crosse
bowed
doune
vnto
him
saiyng
,
Frances
,
go
&
repayre
my
house
.
Thesame
leafe
.
The
Deuell
wytnesseth
that
by
the
mouth
of
a
certayn
woman
yt
was
declared
that
Christ
made
intercession
to
his
father
to
graunt
Thesame
leafe
.
When
S.
Frances
desired
of
Christ
a
great
Pardon
for
the
synnes
of
the
people
,
Christ
bade
him
aske
what
he
woulde
and
yt
should
be
graunted
to
him
,
for
he
was
ordeyned
to
be
the
light
of
the
Gentyles
.
The
xix
.
leafe
.
Freer
Lyon
sawe
Christ
crucified
goyng
before
,
&
Frances
when
he
stode
,
standyng
wyth
hym
,
and
when
he
went
,
goyng
with
him
,
and
talkyng
with
him
.
The
xxi
.
leafe
.
On
Christmas
euen
,
Sainct
Frances
turned
the
great
ryuer
of
Tyber
that
passeth
by
Rome
into
Oyle
.
The
xxiiii
.
leafe
Abbas
Ioachim
and
dyuerse
other
sawe
Frances
wounded
,
accordyng
to
the
saiyng
of
Christ
Ihon.
viij
.
Abraham
sawe
my
dayes
and
reioysed
.
Thesame
lefe
.
Mastres
Picha
,
the
mother
of
blessed
.
S
Frances
was
conceaued
with
him
after
the
maner
of
another
Elizabeth
,
and
she
dyd
not
only
reioyse
as
Elizabeth
dyd
,
but
also
she
named
him
Ihon
at
his
baptisme
.
If
S.
Frances
were
like
to
the
sonne
of
Mary
our
Lorde
Iesu
Christ
,
then
of
force
he
must
be
as
good
as
Ihon
baptist
And
certeynly
he
was
more
than
Ihon
baptist
,
for
Ihon
baptist
was
but
a
preacher
of
penaunce
,
but
Frances
bothe
preached
yt
and
dyd
institute
yt
.
Also
Ihon
baptist
was
the
forrunner
of
Christ
by
preachyng
,
but
S.
Frances
was
bothe
his
preacher
and
banner
bearer
,
wherin
he
exceded
Ihon.
Also
Frances
is
before
Ihon
for
he
conuerted
more
then
Ihon
dyd
,
and
hath
trauayled
in
mo
places
,
that
is
to
saye
thorow
out
all
the
worlde
.
Ihon
preached
but
ij
.
yeres
and
a
lytle
more
,
Frances
preached
xliij
.
yeares
.
Ihon
receaued
his
aucthorite
but
of
the
Lorde
:
But
Frances
receaued
yt
both
of
the
Lorde
and
of
the
Pope
,
whiche
is
more
.
Ihon
what
maner
of
person
he
should
be
was
declared
of
an
Angell
to
his
father
,
and
by
the
holy
ghost
was
made
knowen
to
the
Prophetes
.
But
Frances
was
declared
by
the
Prophetes
,
by
our
Lorde
Iesu
Christ
,
and
by
an
Angell
in
the
likenes
of
a
pilgrim
,
both
to
his
Father
and
Mother
and
whole
houshold
.
S.
Ihon
prophecied
bothe
in
his
Mothers
belye
and
abroade
.
Blessed
Frances
prophesied
in
the
belye
,
that
is
to
saye
in
prison
beyng
taken
at
peruse
,
of
his
deliueraunce
.
S.
Ihon
was
the
frende
of
the
spouse
,
but
Frances
was
made
like
vnto
Christ
him selfe
.
Ihon
to
the
worlde
was
very
holy
:
But
Frances
excelled
in
holynes
,
and
therefore
befor
all
other
Christ
prynted
in
him
the
marke
of
his
woundes
.
S.
Ihon
is
exalted
into
the
order
of
the
Seraphins
,
But
S.
Frances
is
exalted
into
thesame
order
and
is
set
in
the
highest
seate
where
Lucifer
dyd
syt
.
But
was
there
any
other
that
were
glad
of
the
birth
of
S.
Frances
?
Ye
truly
.
Who
were
they
?
forsoth
that
were
Enoch
and
Helias
,
whiche
appered
vnto
a
certeyn
freer
of
the
order
of
Benedict
of
the
partyes
beyond
the
seas
,
and
they
asked
him
,
what
order
arte
thou
of
?
He
aunswered
of
Frances
order
.
And
they
sayd
then
Frances
commeth
,
and
they
made
great
reioisyng
,
and
led
thesame
Freer
with
theim
throughout
all
paradise
shewyng
him
all
thinges
.
And
yt
is
no
meruayle
that
they
so
reioysed
in
Frances
,
for
like
alwayes
ioyeth
in
their
like
.
Also
the
soules
in
purgatory
reioysed
at
his
birth
,
&
specially
all
those
whiche
were
of
the
iij.
orders
,
for
they
were
deliuered
from
their
peynes
and
dyd
flye
vp
into
heauen
.
Also
the
dead
reioysed
,
for
by
his
merites
they
were
reysed
,
The
xxviii
.
leafe
.
As
Simeon
embraced
Christ
beyng
a
Child
in
his
armes
,
so
a
certayn
pilgrym
whiche
was
an
Angell
came
to
the
dore
of
Frances
fathers
house
,
and
instantly
besought
the
seruauntes
of
the
houshould
the
he
might
embrace
the
Childe
.
As
the
blessed
virgyn
Mary
at
the
peticion
of
the
wise
men
that
came
from
the
East
to
visite
Christ
,
deliuered
him
to
theim
,
euen
so
the
mother
of
blessed
S.
Frances
at
the
peticion
of
the
pilgrym
deliuered
her
Sonne
vnto
him
.
Thesame
leafe
.
S.
Frances
dyd
specially
delight
in
the
blessed
virgin
Mary
,
S.
Michaell
,
Ihon
baptist
.
Peter
and
Paule
.
The
xxix
.
leafe
.
Frances
healed
all
maner
of
diseases
,
Yea
and
that
was
more
,
by
the
onlye
laiyng
on
of
his
handes
he
clensed
lepers
.
And
he
conuerted
the
Souldyan
of
Babilon
.
Thesame
leafe
.
By
the
merites
and
inuocacion
of
S.
Frances
,
Christ
reysed
many
from
death
to
life
.
The
xxx
.
leafe
.
Frances
beyng
in
Pryson
,
when
his
other
Prison
felowes
wer
sad
and
heauy
,
then
would
he
be
wonderous
mery
and
glad
,
inso
muche
that
they
imputed
his
so
muche
myrth
to
be
folyshnes
,
of
the
whiche
beyng
by
one
reproued
,
he
aunswered
with
a
lowed
voyce
,
what
thinkest
thou
of
me
?
Euen
at
this
tyme
am
I
worshipped
throughout
all
the
worlde
.
The
xxxviii
.
leafe
.
Frances
sayd
vnto
his
brethren
,
my
brethren
,
my
brethren
,
God
called
me
by
the
waye
of
symplicite
and
humilite
,
and
the
waye
he
declared
to
me
to
be
the
true
way
for
me
and
those
that
will
beleue
&
folowe
me
to
walke
in
.
And
therefore
I
will
not
haue
you
to
name
any
other
rule
to
me
,
then
that
whiche
the
Lord
of
his
great
mercy
declared
and
gaue
vnto
me
.
And
the
Lorde
sayde
vnto
me
that
he
would
Haue
me
a
lyttle
foole
in
this
worlde
.
&c.
Thesame
leafe
.
Freer
Pacifique
was
sodeynlye
rapt
and
taken
vp
into
Heauen
,
but
whether
in
the
body
or
out
of
the
body
,
god
knoweth
,
and
he
sawe
in
Heauen
many
seates
,
among
whiche
he
sawe
one
very
notable
,
garnyshed
with
precious
stones
.
And
he
heard
a
voyce
saiyng
vnto
him
,
this
seate
was
Lucifers
seate
,
and
in
his
seate
shall
syt
meke
Frances
,
The
xxxix
.
leafe
.
Frances
is
better
then
the
Apostles
,
whiche
left
but
their
shippes
and
fewe
other
thinges
,
but
yet
they
left
not
of
the
garmentes
from
their
backes
.
Blessed
Frances
for
a
truth
forsooke
not
onlye
all
earthly
goodes
&
riches
,
but
also
the
clothes
from
his
backe
,
and
euen
his
very
breeches
he
cast
from
him
,
and
naked
he
offred
him selfe
bothe
body
and
mynde
to
be
crucified
,
whiche
we
reade
not
that
euer
any
saynt
ells
dyd
:
wherefore
he
may
well
saye
to
Christ
,
I
haue
left
all
and
folowed
thee
.
Thesame
leafe
.
Blessed
Frances
obserued
the
Gospell
to
the
vttermost
,
as
they
syng
of
him
,
Frances
hath
not
offended
one
tyttle
,
poynt
or
iote
of
the
Gospel
.
The
same
leafe
.
Worldly
men
desyer
high
,
fayre
,
large
&
plesaunt
houses
,
but
S.
Frances
would
haue
none
suche
,
but
commaunded
that
the
substaunce
of
the
houses
for
the
The
xlii
.
leafe
.
Fances
beyng
in
prayer
,
the
Deuell
sayd
vnto
him
,
Frances
.
Frances
,
Frances
?
Frances
aunswered
and
asked
him
what
he
would
,
Thesame
leafe
.
Frances
and
his
felowe
as
they
went
into
Apulia
found
a
great
pursse
wyth
mony
,
he
knowyng
that
the
Deuell
had
done
yt
for
a
bayte
,
at
the
instance
of
his
companyon
that
yt
might
be
geuen
to
the
poore
,
he
tooke
the
pursse
,
and
he
no
soner
touched
yt
but
the
Deuell
issued
therout
in
the
lykenes
of
a
Serpent
&
caried
the
pursse
with
him
.
Another
brother
goyng
by
the
way
found
a
penny
and
tooke
yt
vp
and
put
yt
in
his
mouth
to
geue
yt
to
the
poore
,
and
streight
waye
his
tonge
and
membres
were
made
lame
and
dombe
by
the
Deuell
,
But
when
he
had
spyt
out
the
peny
and
done
penaunce
,
he
was
restored
,
both
to
his
speche
and
other
membres
.
Thesame
leafe
.
Frances
often
tymes
dyd
se
the
Deuell
,
not
only
in
a
dissimuled
maner
,
but
to
feare
and
greue
him
he
shewed
him self
playnly
and
clerely
in
his
awne
forme
and
fassion
.
Freer
Giles
asked
of
S.
Frances
if
the
Deuell
were
so
terrible
that
a
man
might
not
behold
him
a
pater
noster
while
?
S.
Frauces
aunswered
,
that
no
man
was
hable
to
behold
the
deuell
half
a
Pater
noster
while
,
but
he
should
dye
immediatly
.
The
xliii
.
leafe
.
The
deuell
appered
●nto
Frances
saiyng
,
knowest
thou
not
that
slepe
is
a
great
norisshyng
to
the
body
?
And
immediatly
Frances
pulled
of
his
cote
&
his
breeches
and
goyng
out
of
his
Cell
ranne
naked
into
the
wildernes
,
when
yt
was
frost
and
snowe
,
and
all
to
tare
his
flesh
with
the
thornes
of
the
wood
.
Thesame
leafe
.
S.
Frances
beyng
occupyed
in
prayer
vpon
the
mount
of
Aluerne
,
the
Deuell
would
haue
throwen
him
doune
headlyng
,
by
reason
the
stones
wheron
he
kneled
were
lose
&
holowe
:
but
Frances
caught
one
of
the
lose
stones
in
his
hand
as
he
was
fallyng
&
thesame
cloue
as
fast
to
the
rest
as
waxe
doth
to
a
mannes
fyngers
,
wherby
Frances
stayed
himselfe
&
ouercam
the
deuell
,
The
xlvi
.
leafe
.
S.
Frantes
hearyng
in
the
Gospell
that
the
disciples
should
cary
no
mony
in
their
Pursses
,
neither
should
they
Haue
ij
.
cotes
&c.
beyng
replenished
with
the
holy
Ghoost
,
streyt
way
he
cast
away
his
Shoes
,
and
his
staffe
,
and
put
on
an
olde
threde
bare
cote
made
after
the
maner
of
the
Crosse
,
and
in
stede
of
a
Girdle
he
put
about
him
a
corde
.
And
thus
the
life
and
rule
of
blessed
S.
Frances
was
taken
of
the
Apostles
.
¶
The
names
of
the
xii
.
Apostles
of
Sainct
Frances
whiche
were
in
lyfe
,
worde
and
miracles
.
wonderous
notable
.
-
Pet●r
Cathany
.
-
Ihon
of
the
Chapell
.
-
Philip
Long.
-
Freer
Bather
.
-
Freer
Gyles
.
-
Bernhard
of
Cleue
.
-
Angell
Cam●●●
.
-
Ihon
of
Sainct
Constance
.
-
Bernhard
of
the
v.
Valleys
.
-
Freer
Morice
.
-
Freer
Saba●yne
.
-
Freer
Syluester
.
This
order
was
instituted
the
xvj
.
daye
of
Aprill
Anno
M.CC.VII
.
Freer
Giles
was
rapt
and
taken
vp
into
heauen
,
as
was
Saynct
Paul
.
Freer
Siluester
talked
with
God
as
one
frende
talketh
with
another
.
Freer
Morice
lyued
onlye
by
rawe
herbes
.
And
as
Iudas
was
remoued
from
the
dignite
of
the
Apostleship
,
so
was
Ihon
of
the
Chapell
remoued
from
theim
,
&
afterward
beyng
infected
with
a
leprosy
,
for
payne
and
shame
he
hanged
him selfe
:
in
whose
place
came
Wylliam
an
Englishman
.
The
xlvii
.
leafe
.
Frances
was
buryed
in
Assisio
,
Thesame
leafe
.
S.
Frances
opened
the
Masse
booke
,
&
at
the
first
openyng
he
happened
vpon
this
sentence
by
the
wyll
of
the
Lorde
:
If
thou
wilt
be
perfect
go
sell
all
that
thou
hast
and
folowe
me
.
He
opened
the
booke
the
second
time
and
found
,
ye
shall
cary
nothing
with
you
in
the
waye
&c.
And
the
third
tyme
he
opened
yt
,
and
founde
,
he
that
will
folowe
me
,
must
deny
him selfe
&c.
Then
sayd
Frances
to
Bernhard
and
Peter
,
that
is
the
rule
of
oure
life
.
Thesame
leafe
.
Frances
and
Bernhard
stoode
vnder
a
porche
stark
naked
hauyng
nothyng
vpon
them
when
yt
was
feruently
colde
,
and
a
certeyn
woman
tooke
theim
for
rybaldes
and
theues
.
The
xlviii
.
leafe
.
Freer
Bernhard
stode
by
the
space
of
viij
.
dayes
beholdyng
diuyne
consolacions
.
Thesame
leafe
.
Freer
Bernhard
sawe
one
of
his
Brethren
ryde
vpon
a
great
palfrey
,
and
he
cryed
mightely
after
him
,
saiyng
,
that
Horsse
is
to
hyghe
and
to
great
,
oure
rule
teacheth
not
to
ryde
of
suche
Horsses
.
Blessed
Bernhard
was
the
whele
of
Charitee
.
Thesame
leafe
.
Brother
Giles
seyng
Bernhard
he
sayd
,
Sursum
corda
.
that
is
,
lift
vp
your
hertes
,
And
Bernhard
aunswered
Habemus
ad
Dominum
.
that
is
,
we
lift
theim
vp
vnto
the
Lorde
.
Thesame
leafe
.
Freer
Bernhard
after
his
death
,
was
made
whyte
and
his
fleshe
soft
and
loked
as
though
he
laughed
,
and
he
semed
to
be
muche
fayrer
beyng
ded
then
he
was
lyuyng
.
The
xlix
.
leafe
.
One
of
S.
Frances
brethren
beyng
sodenly
rapt
vp
into
Paradyce
,
sawe
S.
Frances
clothed
in
a
clothyng
garnished
all
with
beutifull
sterres
,
and
the
pryntes
of
the
woundes
shone
as
the
most
bryghtest
sterres
,
and
was
sene
thorow
all
the
cyte
.
Thesame
leafe
.
Freer
Lyon
not
fyndyng
S.
Frances
in
his
cell
,
went
out
and
sawe
him
assendyng
into
heauen
so
high
that
he
could
skant
reache
his
fete
,
which
he
embraced
and
with
all
reuerence
kyssed
saiyng
,
God
be
mercifull
vnto
me
wretched
synner
,
and
by
the
merites
of
this
holy
man
,
Graunt
that
I
may
fynde
mercy
.
Thesame
leafe
.
S.
Frances
tolde
the
forsayd
Lyon
before
of
the
impression
of
his
woundes
,
saiyng
,
that
shortly
God
in
the
mount
of
Aluerne
would
worke
in
him
suche
a
Miracle
as
he
neuer
before
wrought
in
any
creature
,
whiche
should
be
to
the
great
wonder
of
all
the
world
.
This
Freer
Lyon
beyng
in
the
mountain
when
our
Lord
marked
S.
Frances
with
his
fyue
woundes
,
S.
Frances
was
content
to
graunt
him
to
touche
theim
,
&
with
his
handes
he
touched
those
most
reuerent
woundes
,
out
of
the
which
issued
so
much
vertue
,
that
he
semed
to
him selfe
to
be
taken
out
of
the
worlde
.
Thesame
leafe
.
S.
Frances
vsed
all
wayes
to
put
a
certeyn
thyng
in
his
woundes
to
kepe
theim
from
bledyng
,
but
vpon
Maundy
thursdaye
at
nyght
and
all
good
Friday
he
would
put
nothyng
in
them
,
but
suffred
theim
to
blede
,
for
the
loue
of
Christ
which
the
daye
was
crucified
,
that
he
might
suffer
with
him
.
Thesame
leafe
.
Blessed
Frances
commaunded
the
stone
wheron
Christ
stode
when
he
apered
vnto
him
,
to
conne
Water
,
Wyne
,
Oyle
,
and
Balsāum
,
for
iiij
.
thynges
sayd
he
that
Christ
promysed
shoulde
apperteyn
vnto
his
order
.
The
first
,
whosoeuer
loued
religion
should
end
well
.
ii
.
Whosoeuer
persecuted
Religion
shoulde
be
plagued
.
iii.
He
that
obserueth
not
religion
should
be
confounded
.
Thesame
leafe
Freer
Lyon
after
S.
Frances
death
was
wounderfull
desyrous
to
se
him
,
and
to
obtayn
his
request
he
gaue
him selfe
to
prayer
and
fastyng
,
to
whome
S.
Fran.
appered
very
●ocound
and
mery
,
hauyng
wynges
and
fethers
to
flye
,
and
sharpe
talentes
(
as
yt
were
gilted
)
lyke
an
Egle.
Then
Freer
Lyon
asked
him
wherfore
he
dyd
flye
in
that
maner
.
He
aunswered
,
among
many
other
gifts
which
the
lorde
hath
geuen
me
,
one
is
that
I
should
be
the
only
aduocate
and
helper
of
all
my
verteous
and
deuoute
brethren
,
and
as
yt
wer
flyeng
among
their
tribulacions
and
aduersites
the
more
spedely
to
help
theim
,
and
the
soules
of
those
good
brethren
to
bryng
into
euerlastynge
glory
:
And
I
cary
the
sharp
talentes
and
nayles
of
the
deuell
▪
to
correct
with
most
hard
peynes
and
greuous
ponishment
the
naughty
brethren
and
she
persecutors
of
oure
order
.
The
l.
leafe
.
A
certayn
Childe
beyng
dayly
vexed
with
the
fallyng
syknes
comming
to
Freer
Lyon
dyd
pryuely
cut
of
a
pece
of
his
cote
and
hanged
yt
aboute
his
neck
and
streight
he
was
deliuered
of
his
disease
,
but
by
chaunce
yt
so
happened
that
thesame
pece
was
cut
from
his
neck
,
and
beyng
agayn
vexed
with
his
disease
he
came
to
Freer
Lyon
,
and
he
hanged
a
pece
of
his
cote
aboute
his
neck
,
and
the
disease
departed
from
him
for
euer
.
Thesame
leafe
.
The
countesse
of
Angulary
liyng
at
the
poynt
of
death
,
harde
the
voyce
of
a
certeyn
lady
saiyng
,
dost
thou
beleue
in
holy
Freer
Lyon
?
Then
commyt
thy selfe
to
him
.
Thesame
leafe
.
Frances
reueled
to
Freer
Masse
many
heauenly
thynges
.
It
fortuned
that
Freer
Massey
was
goyng
before
S.
Frances
,
and
asked
him
whiche
waye
they
should
go
.
S.
Frances
aunswered
,
thesame
waye
which
the
Lorde
sheweth
vs
.
And
Massey
sayd
,
howe
shall
we
knowe
that
waye
?
And
Frances
aunswered
:
by
the
myracle
that
I
will
do
in
the.
A
lytle
after
.
Suche
workes
were
done
by
blessed
Frances
whyle
he
lyued
,
that
if
an
Angell
had
done
theim
.
they
coulde
not
haue
bene
more
merueylous
.
Thesame
leafe
.
Freer
Frances
and
Massey
went
a
beggyng
together
,
and
because
Freer
Massey
was
fayre
and
Frances
hard
fauored
,
therfore
Freer
Massey
had
the
best
almo●e
and
greatest
lofes
.
The
li.
leafe
.
Blessed
Sainct
Frances
went
behynde
the
altar
to
praye
,
where
by
the
visitacion
of
God
he
receaued
into
his
soule
suche
feruency
of
heate
,
and
was
so
inflamed
with
the
desyer
of
pouertye
,
that
he
thought
that
oute
of
his
Eien
and
mouthe
when
he
gaped
,
ther
issued
great
flames
.
And
commyng
into
his
felowe
with
his
burnyng
mouth
,
he
sayde
,
A
A
A
brother
Massey
,
and
this
he
spake
with
great
feruency
iij.
tymes
,
and
he
pulled
Massey
by
the
Necke
,
and
his
mouthe
for
the
greate
feruency
of
the
Spirite
was
drawen
awrye
,
and
he
cryed
contynually
A
A
A
Brother
Massey
,
and
he
lifted
Massey
from
the
grounde
and
with
a
blast
of
his
mouth
he
lifted
Massey
from
the
earth
,
&
he
blew
him
before
him
a
great
speare
length
.
Freer
Massey
was
astonyed
at
the
meruelous
feruoure
of
the
Blessed
Father
,
but
he
thought
that
he
receaued
suche
greate
swetnes
and
consolacion
as
to
his
remembraunce
he
neuer
receaued
before
.
Afterward
goyng
to
Rome
,
Blessed
Frances
was
of
the
holy
Apostles
Peter
and
Paule
swetely
embraced
.
Thesame
leafe
.
Peter
and
Paule
beyng
requyred
by
Frances
,
obteyned
of
Christ
the
confirmacion
of
the
rule
of
the
Barefoote
Freers
.
Thesame
leafe
.
A
great
multytude
of
byrdes
wer
gathered
together
to
heare
the
prechyng
of
blessed
Frances
.
Thesame
leafe
.
Freer
Corrade
sayd
that
Ruffinus
was
tempted
often
of
the
deuell
that
he
should
not
folow
the
steppes
of
blessed
Frances
,
for
Frances
was
an
ydeot
&
a
foole
.
Thesame
leafe
.
The
Deuell
tempted
Freer
Ruffyne
saiyng
:
Thou
arte
dampned
and
Frances
is
dampned
,
and
whosoeuer
foloweth
him
shal
be
deceaued
.
Whiche
thynge
when
Ruffine
had
told
Blessed
Frances
,
Frances
sayd
If
the
Deuell
appere
vnto
the
agayne
and
saye
any
thynge
to
the
,
saye
thou
vnto
him
,
Open
thy
mouth
and
I
will
shyte
in
yt
.
The
lii
.
leafe
On
a
certeyn
daye
,
blessed
Frances
commaunded
Freer
Ruffine
to
go
preache
at
Assisio
suche
thynges
as
the
Holy
Ghost
should
moue
him
vnto
.
Freer
Ruffine
sayde
,
I
am
an
ydeot
and
vnlearned
,
I
beseche
the
my
LORDE
Pardon
me
.
Blessed
Frances
sayd
,
Because
thou
hast
not
streyght
way
obeyed
,
therefore
by
the
vertue
of
obedyence
I
commaunde
the
that
thou
strype
thy
self
naked
all
saue
thy
breches
&
gett
the
to
Assisio
to
some
church
there
and
so
preache
to
the
people
Afterward
when
Saint
Frances
,
perceiued
that
Freer
Ruffins
was
gone
,
and
considered
with
him self
that
his
penance
was
to
greuous
,
he
likewise
striped
him self
naked
and
went
and
hearde
Freer
Ruffine
preache
But
the
inhabitantes
of
Assisio
seing
those
ii
naked
,
said
,
these
me
do
so
much
penance
that
thei
become
mad
.
Thesame
leafe
.
They
thought
theym selues
most
blessed
and
happy
that
might
touche
the
Hemmes
of
the
Garmentes
of
Frances
and
Ruffine
.
The
same
lefe
On
a
time
when
Frier
Ruffine
went
about
the
citie
of
Assisio
begging
bread
,
behold
,
a
certeine
deuel
cried
saiyng
,
that
pore
Frier
S.
Ruffine
,
which
trotteth
in
the
myre
,
his
holinesse
and
praiers
burne
and
torment
me
.
The
same
leafe
Also
Frier
Ruffine
was
the
first
that
espied
the
printes
of
the
woundes
in
blessed
S.
The
second
time
he
espied
it
by
scratching
of
s
.
Frances
side
,
wher
by
chaunce
his
Fingers
was
in
the
wounde
before
he
was
ware
and
Sayncte
Frances
beynge
in
greate
anguishe
cried
with
a
loud
voice
,
God
forgeue
the
Ruffine
,
wherfore
hast
thou
done
this
?
The
same
leafe
.
Frier
Iames
sawe
the
soule
of
blessed
.
Saynct
Frances
,
assend
into
heauen
as
a
bright
sterre
ouer
a
faire
cloude
,
The
same
leafe
.
There
laye
in
the
house
of
our
Lady
,
certein
Friers
which
hard
and
sawe
a
greate
nombre
of
larkes
,
gathered
together
,
singinge
vpon
the
rofe
of
the
Churche
at
the
death
of
Frances
,
Sancta
Maria.
&c.
The
xl
.
leafe
Freer
Ihon
was
so
simple
that
whatsoeuer
he
saw
Sainct
Frances
do
,
that
he
would
do
also
,
as
when
Sainct
Frances
swept
the
church
he
would
also
helpe
him
&
when
Frances
did
spit
he
would
also
spit
,
and
when
Frances
made
curtesy
,
he
would
also
make
curtesy
.
And
when
he
was
by
Frances
rebuked
for
so
doyng
,
he
answethat
he
had
promised
to
do
all
all
thinges
whiche
.
S.
Frances
did
.
Thesame
leafe
.
A
certain
Doctor
in
diuinitie
preachiug
before
S.
Clare
and
her
Sisters
,
it
fortuned
that
Freer
Giles
comming
in
,
said
vnto
him
,
thou
doctor
holde
thy
peace
for
I
will
preache
:
which
immediatly
held
his
peace
,
&
Frier
Giles
taught
most
swetely
.
Then
blessed
.
S.
Clare
reioising
in
the
spirite
said
,
This
day
is
the
will
of
blessed
Saynt
Frances
fulfilled
.
Thesame
leafe
.
Freer
Giles
said
,
that
among
al
vertues
he
loued
chastite
.
And
when
a
certain
brother
said
,
is
not
Charite
greater
?
He
answered
And
what
is
chaster
than
charite
?
And
often
he
would
sing
.
O
holy
Chastite
what
art
thou
?
Thesame
leafe
.
A
blacke
Frier
being
tempted
by
our
lady
,
went
to
Frier
Giles
for
counsaile
.
Freer
Giles
seing
this
in
spirite
ranne
and
met
him
and
with
his
Staffe
he
bette
the
ground
iii.
Thesame
leafe
.
Freer
Giles
knowing
the
.s
.
Lewes
which
was
king
of
Fraunce
came
too
Peruse
clothed
in
a
pilgrims
wede
,
to
se
him
,
and
he
running
to
mete
him
,
eache
so
embraced
other
,
that
they
both
fell
doune
,
&
in
spirit
,
but
not
in
word
the
one
spake
to
the
other
,
and
eache
departed
frrom
other
with
wonderfull
consolacion
.
The
lv.
leaf
Freer
Giles
affirmed
that
he
was
iiii
.
times
borne
.
first
of
his
mother
,
scond
of
baptisme
,
thirdly
at
the
entrance
into
his
ordre
,
And
fourthly
,
when
god
so
often
times
appered
vnto
him
,
and
he
was
rapt
and
taken
vp
into
heauen
.
And
in
this
birth
as
he
saide
,
he
loste
all
his
faith
,
by
the
reason
of
those
heauenly
visions
whiche
are
of
faith
.
The
same
leafe
The
deuel
appered
vnto
him
so
terribly
,
that
for
feare
he
loste
his
speche
,
and
when
the
deuel
began
to
come
vpon
him
and
to
destroye
him
,
not
being
hable
to
rise
he
drewe
as
well
as
he
could
to
the
vessell
of
holy
water
whiche
with
faith
he
threw
,
&
forthwith
he
was
deliuered
of
his
tormentes
.
The
same
leafe
Freer
Giles
saw
the
soule
of
a
certein
holy
persone
among
a
great
sort
of
the
soules
of
Friers
,
assend
out
of
Purgatory
into
heauen
The
same
leafe
.
For
the
holynes
of
Frier
Giles
,
Christe
graunted
that
all
the
soules
whiche
were
in
purgatory
should
assend
with
him
into
paradise
,
among
the
whiche
was
Freer
Lolle
,
euen
then
in
tormenting
,
whiche
by
the
merites
of
Freer
Giles
was
deliuered
.
Thesame
leafe
.
Freer
Giles
was
once
rapt
&
taken
vp
into
the
third
heauen
.
The
doctrine
of
Frier
Giles
There
is
nothing
wherby
that
thou
canst
please
god
better
,
then
to
hang
thy self
by
the
throte
,
whiche
is
thus
to
be
interpreted
,
The
same
leafe
Freer
Giles
said
vnto
a
certein
person
,
if
thou
wilt
entre
into
religion
,
then
quickly
kill
thy
parentes
,
that
is
to
say
thy
Father
and
mother
,
but
not
with
the
materiall
sworde
,
but
spiritually
,
for
he
that
hateth
not
father
&
mother
cannot
be
christes
disciple
.
The
same
leafe
To
entre
into
religion
,
is
to
finde
the
infinite
treasure
of
the
kingdome
of
heauen
.
The
lvi
.
leafe
Peine
vpon
peine
,
is
to
studye
mekenes
and
humilitie
,
The
.lvii.
leafe
Freer
Giles
said
to
.
s
.
Frances
that
he
liked
not
the
pis●eres
or
Antes
,
because
thei
were
to
much
careful
in
gathering
of
their
victualles
,
but
he
liked
the
birdes
excedingly
well
,
for
they
horded
not
vp
.
The
.lviii.
leafe
.
Holy
religious
persones
are
like
holy
wolues
,
The
lix
.
leafe
From
the
beginning
of
the
world
euen
til
this
time
,
ther
was
neuer
a
better
nor
a
more
profitable
●
Ordre
of
Religion
inuented
,
then
the
ordre
of
the
barefote
Friers
.
The
lx.
leafe
.
Freer
Giles
being
asked
what
he
thought
of
blessed
Frances
,
he
beyng
inflamed
with
feruour
of
the
spirite
,
in
hearing
the
name
of
Frances
said
,
that
there
is
no
man
that
ought
to
name
blessid
Frances
,
but
for
ioy
he
should
lick
his
lippes
.
Yet
said
Frier
Giles
he
lacked
one
thing
,
and
that
was
a
strong
bodye
,
for
if
he
had
had
so
strong
a
bodie
as
I
haue
,
I
thinke
al
the
worlde
had
not
ben
able
to
haue
folowed
him
.
Thesame
leafe
.
Freer
Conrade
of
offida
when
he
was
but
xiiii
yeres
of
age
entred
into
religion
,
&
when
he
was
set
to
study
he
refused
it
,
&
entred
into
the
kitchin
dressing
meat
&
destributing
that
almose
by
the
space
of
.x.
yeres
There
came
daily
vnto
him
a
faire
bird
&
sate
vpon
his
sholder
,
&
at
a
certein
time
as
he
went
into
the
wood
the
birde
did
fly
before
him
singing
moste
swetely
,
of
the
whiche
swetnes
he
receaued
incredible
comfort
.
Maundy
thurseday
drawing
nere
,
Freer
●onrade
besought
the
lord
that
he
woulde
take
the
bird
those
iij.
daies
into
his
keping
,
because
that
in
those
iii.
daies
he
would
receiue
no
consolation
or
confort
,
but
sorowe
&
heuines
,
in
the
honor
of
good
Friday
:
whiche
thing
came
to
passe
,
for
the
bird
hid
her self
,
vntil
Easter
dayin
the
morning
,
whiche
morning
he
came
more
fairer
than
euer
he
did
before
,
and
song
more
plesanter
and
sweter
,
and
as
it
is
said
,
he
spake
to
him
wonderfull
thinges
and
he
sawe
him
fly
into
heauen
as
straight
as
a
threde
.
Verely
I
beleue
it
was
the
Holy
Ghost
,
The
same
brother
in
the
Feast
of
the
Purification
besought
our
our
lady
that
she
wold
geue
him
some
of
the
swetnes
and
consolation
that
she
gaue
to
Simeon
,
and
imediatly
he
was
heard
,
For
our
Lady
apered
in
a
great
light
with
her
mooste
precious
childe
,
and
turned
him
into
the
armes
of
Freer
Conrade
,
whiche
deuoutly
taking
him
printed
Christes
lippes
in
his
lippes
,
and
setting
his
brest
to
his
,
was
wonderfully
delighted
in
the
kisses
,
and
replenished
with
charitie
.
Thesame
leafe
.
The
soule
of
a
certain
Frier
apered
vnto
Frier
Conrade
,
and
declared
vnto
him
that
for
certeine
sinnes
that
he
had
committed
he
was
in
purgatory
,
&
therefore
besought
him
that
he
would
say
a
certain
of
pater
nosters
for
hym
.
And
when
he
had
saied
an
hundred
pater
nosters
,
the
Soul
of
the
same
brother
returned
and
gaue
thankes
on
goddes
behalfe
to
Frier
Conrade
,
saiyng
that
hee
was
deliuered
from
peines
an
went
euen
then
into
glory
.
Thesame
leafe
.
Freer
Conrade
was
a
great
preacher
,
and
he
reised
fiue
dead
persons
,
The
lxi
.
leaf
Frier
Simon
of
Collaze
reised
a
dead
person
to
life
,
he
healed
a
sick
horsse
,
Shepe
that
could
not
stand
he
made
hole
.
He
restored
olde
women
to
their
hearing
,
iii.
persons
that
were
croked
he
made
streight
,
and
healed
x
that
had
the
dropsy
,
Thesame
leafe
.
A
certain
Phisicion
of
Spolet
,
being
like
could
not
help
him self
,
The
lxii
leafe
Freer
Simon
of
Assissio
,
neuer
learned
hys
Grammer
,
and
yet
by
the
help
of
god
he
spake
so
mistically
that
his
wordes
semed
supernaturall
.
And
beyng
on
a
time
rapt
and
taken
vp
he
semed
so
farre
vnlike
himselfe
by
the
meane
of
wonderfull
aparicions
and
visions
that
he
sawe
,
that
a
Freer
putt
a
burning
cole
vpon
his
bare
fote
and
he
neuer
felt
it
.
Thesame
lefe
Freer
Rolle
of
Bruforce
on
a
time
preached
in
the
wood
,
and
the
chattering
of
the
birdes
excedingly
troubled
him
,
and
he
turned
to
them
,
&
commaunded
them
that
they
should
depart
and
come
no
more
in
that
wood
,
(
A
merueilous
saiyng
)
and
unmediatly
thei
departed
and
neuer
returned
again
.
Thesame
leafe
.
Freer
Leonard
one
of
.
Sainct
Frances
felowes
led
S
Frances
Asse
&
as
he
thought
S.
Frances
was
riding
vpon
his
Asse
,
which
sayde
to
him self
,
behold
howe
Frances
rydeth
and
must
haue
a
foote
man
to
leade
his
Asse
.
And
immedyatly
Frances
knewe
his
thought
.
Then
Freer
Leonard
kneled
doune
at
blessed
Frances
fete
,
and
with
teares
besought
him
of
forgeuenes
.
Thesame
leafe
.
A
certeyn
Nouesse
called
Freer
Iunyper
was
so
symple
and
deuoute
.
that
he
went
often
tymes
into
the
wyldernes
to
gather
wood
to
make
a
fyre
to
warme
the
brethren
with
,
&
he
vsed
to
cary
an
aule
with
him
to
sowe
the
〈◊〉
of
his
brethren
,
but
the
war●●●●
of
his
house
was
fat
.
The
sayd
Noueys
on
a
tyme
stryped
him self
naked
&
came
from
Fulgin●
passyng
by
the
strete
spelū
thorow
the
cytee
of
Assisio
euen
into
the
house
of
the
barefoot
Freers
.
And
when
he
was
excedyngly
reproued
of
the
generall
minister
for
so
doyng
,
he
sayd
,
that
he
had
taken
this
penaunce
vpon
him
,
because
he
would
be
commaunded
in
like
maner
naked
to
returne
.
Also
another
tyme
he
entred
into
Viterbe
,
Thesame
leafe
.
Theforsayd
Noueys
was
of
a
certeyn
gentleman
excedyngly
welle
enterteigned
and
layd
in
a
goodly
bed
.
Thesame
man
tooke
his
iorney
to
Rome
,
whiche
beyng
knowe●
to
the
Romaynes
,
they
came
foorth
to
enterteine
and
wellcome
him
.
But
he
stoode
plaiyng
with
the
Children
tyll
they
were
gone
.
And
afterward
he
went
into
the
citee
alone
.
The
Romaynes
some
of
theim
thought
he
dyd
yt
of
a
contempt
or
disdeyn
that
he
bare
vnto
theim
and
other
some
thought
he
dyd
yt
of
folyshnes
.
Thesame
leafe
.
A
certeyn
Freer
beyng
sycke
desyred
to
eate
of
a
swynes
fete
,
Then
theforsayd
Noueys
called
Freer
Iunyper
tooke
a
sworde
and
entred
into
the
myddest
of
the
herde
of
swyne
&
stroke
of
the
fete
of
one
of
theim
,
and
dressed
theim
for
his
forsayde
brother
.
When
the
master
of
the
swyne
knewe
that
a
Freer
had
done
it
,
he
spak
many
opprobrious
wordes
of
S.
Frances
and
his
brethren
.
But
Freer
Iuniper
metyng
with
the
master
of
the
swyne
gaue
vnto
him
such
soft
&
swete
wordes
,
that
he
gaue
the
whol
swyne
for
a
pictance
to
the
brethren
.
The
lxiii
.
leafe
.
A
certeyn
poore
man
asked
an
almose
of
Freer
Iuniper
,
to
whome
he
sayde
,
I
〈◊〉
not
geue
myne
habite
,
but
if
thou
take
yt
from
me
,
I
will
not
be
greu●●
with
the.
Whiche
thynge
the
poore
man
dyd
.
Thesame
leafe
.
The
Deuelles
excedyngly
feared
this
Freer
Iunyper
,
for
he
goyng
by
a
certeyn
toune
the
deuell
fled
vii
.
myle
from
him
,
and
beyng
asked
why
he
dyd
so
?
He
aunswered
,
that
he
could
not
abyde
the
pacyence
of
that
foolishe
Freer
Iuniper
.
Wherefore
S.
Frances
,
when
the
Deuelles
would
not
at
his
commaundment
depart
out
of
men
,
he
would
saye
to
the
deuell
,
except
thou
departe
the
soner
,
I
will
cause
Freer
Iunyper
to
come
to
the
,
and
then
the
Deuell
fearyng
the
presence
of
Freer
Iunyper
,
and
the
vertue
and
holines
of
Sainct
Frances
departed
.
Thesame
leafe
.
S.
Frances
perceauyng
the
great
holynes
of
Freer
Iunyper
,
sayd
vnto
his
brethren
,
I
would
to
God
I
had
a
whole
wood
of
suche
Iunyper
.
Thesame
leafe
.
Freer
Innyper
kept
sylence
vj.
dayes
after
this
maner
.
The
fyrst
daye
in
the
honour
of
the
father
,
The
second
in
the
honour
of
the
sonne
,
The
third
in
the
honour
of
the
holy
ghost
,
the
fourth
in
the
honour
of
the
blessed
virgyn
Mary
,
and
so
he
obserued
sylence
euery
day
in
the
reuerence
&
honour
of
one
saint
or
another
.
Thesame
leafe
.
Freer
Iunyper
had
a
certeyn
brother
to
his
disciple
,
which
was
so
pacient
▪
that
if
he
had
bene
skorged
all
the
daye
long
,
he
woulde
saye
nothyng
.
And
when
Freer
Iuniper
dyd
byd
him
wepe
,
then
he
would
wepe
,
&
when
he
bade
him
laugh
,
then
would
he
laugh
,
When
Freer
Iunyper
heard
of
his
death
,
he
sayde
,
I
haue
no
more
goodes
in
this
worlde
,
and
he
brake
all
the
vesselles
in
the
House
,
saiynge
,
that
the
whole
world
by
his
death
was
destroyed
.
And
that
if
yt
should
not
be
horrible
to
his
brethren
,
he
would
cause
the
hed
of
his
disciple
to
be
deuyded
in
ii
.
peces
,
the
one
part
to
be
made
a
dyshe
for
theim
to
eate
their
meate
in
,
&
of
the
other
part
a
cup
for
theim
to
drynk
in
.
Thesame
leafe
.
Freer
Iunyper
sayd
,
I
would
after
my
death
that
ther
might
issue
such
stenche
out
of
my
body
that
no
man
should
be
hable
to
come
nygh
yt
,
Thesame
leafe
.
Freer
Andrew
of
Anany
.
at
a
certeyn
tyme
had
a
lust
to
eate
of
lytle
byrdes
rosted
,
and
when
they
were
made
ready
and
set
before
him
,
he
would
not
consent
to
his
lust
,
but
makyng
the
signe
of
the
crosse
on
the
byrdes
,
he
commaunded
theim
to
depart
,
which
ymediatly
reuiued
&
flew
away
.
Thesame
lefe
.
Freer
Ambrose
of
Massa
,
if
he
fortuned
to
offend
any
person
by
a
worde
,
he
would
take
a
corde
and
tye
yt
about
his
neck
and
mekely
aske
forgeuenes
,
and
in
the
most
diligentest
maner
would
washe
the
dyshes
.
He
reysed
vj.
from
death
to
life
,
and
he
deliuered
one
from
the
daunger
of
a
wolfe
.
Thesame
leafe
.
Freer
Morice
ware
next
his
body
a
Habergeon
and
lyued
with
rawe
herbes
.
He
woulde
eate
no
fleshe
vpon
Christmas
day
if
yt
fell
on
the
fryday
.
Then
sayd
Saynt
Frances
to
him
,
I
woulde
that
the
very
Walles
should
eate
fleshe
that
daye
if
yt
were
possible
.
The
lxiiii
.
leafe
Brother
Reignold
besought
Christ
that
he
would
declare
vnto
him
into
what
order
he
should
enter
for
the
saluacion
of
his
soule
.
And
our
lord
Iesu
Christ
aunswered
,
that
he
should
go
into
the
order
of
the
Barefoote
fryers
.
Thesame
leafe
.
Freer
Benedict
of
Aret
,
receaued
into
the
order
of
the
Barfoote
Fryers
the
Emperoure
of
Constantinople
,
and
kyng
of
Ierusalem
called
Ihon.
Thesame
leafe
.
¶
Thefore
sayde
Fryer
,
had
a
great
deuocion
to
Sainct
Danyell
,
whose
Sepulcher
is
in
Babilon
,
and
dragons
kepe
yt
,
whiche
Sepulcher
he
desired
greatly
to
se
,
but
what
for
the
length
of
the
iorney
and
for
feare
of
the
dragons
he
coulde
not
come
at
yt
.
Then
appered
vnto
him
a
honge
and
great
dragon
and
caught
him
vp
in
his
tayle
,
and
caryed
him
to
Daniels
Sepulchre
,
the
Sepulchre
beyng
opened
,
he
gat
a
fynger
of
S.
Daniel
,
which
with
great
deuocion
he
brought
with
him
.
And
forth
with
he
was
of
the
same
dragon
taken
vp
&
set
ther
agayn
from
whence
he
came
.
Wherfor
yt
is
to
be
beleued
that
yt
was
the
Angell
of
the
Lorde
.
Thesame
man
also
,
as
another
Ionas
in
a
tempest
was
throwen
into
the
Sea
,
and
streight
waye
he
was
taken
vp
in
a
lytle
cloude
&
caryed
into
paradyse
.
Whome
when
Enoch
and
Ely
sawe
,
they
asked
him
who
he
was
,
and
he
Aunswered
I
am
a
Freer
of
Saynct
Frances
Order
,
then
they
made
great
ioye
,
and
led
him
aboute
shewynge
him
all
thynges
that
were
in
Paradise
,
and
then
afterward
he
was
brought
agayne
of
thesame
lytle
cloude
to
the
Sea
,
whom
when
the
men
sawe
,
they
excedyngly
wondered
.
Tesame
man
healed
a
woman
that
had
a
fistula
on
all
her
body
.
Thesame
leafe
.
Freer
Wylliam
of
Radcofe
,
enteryng
into
a
certeyn
hermytage
kneled
doune
and
prayed
,
the
deuell
lykewise
kneled
doune
hard
by
him
and
stroke
him
on
the
cheke
,
whiche
when
he
had
suffred
a
good
while
,
at
the
laste
the
Freer
put
out
his
hand
thynkyng
to
haue
caught
the
Deuell
at
his
next
stroke
.
But
the
Deuell
fleyng
,
so
stroke
&
hurte
Freer
Wylliams
hand
that
ther
rose
v.
great
Blysters
whiche
swelled
very
muche
and
were
so
greuous
that
a
greate
tyme
after
he
was
not
hable
to
do
any
thynge
wyth
that
hande
,
Thesame
leafe
.
Ihon
of
Aluerne
,
when
he
was
an
infant
,
euery
Monday
,
Wednesday
and
Frydaye
would
suck
but
once
,
And
woulde
eate
nothyng
elles
.
And
in
his
meditacion
of
Christes
passion
he
would
so
beate
him selfe
,
that
what
with
teares
and
blood
yt
semed
that
ther
ranne
Ryuers
of
blood
out
of
his
body
.
And
he
dyd
vse
to
hang
nettels
about
his
neck
and
body
to
ponyshe
him selfe
withal
.
And
when
a
certeyn
person
sayde
,
then
shall
he
be
a
good
Barefoot
Fryer
,
hearyng
that
worde
,
beyng
inspired
of
the
LORDE
He
entred
into
that
Order
,
and
he
kept
the
vestry
and
song
in
the
Queer
.
In
the
tyme
of
great
frost
and
Snowe
he
went
naked
,
sauyng
that
he
ware
a
payer
of
breches
,
sometyme
he
ware
a
habergeon
,
and
some
tyme
a
cote
of
swynes
leder
,
and
some
tyme
a
cote
of
Horse
heare
knotty
,
and
he
ware
next
his
fleshe
a
hoope
of
yron
.
By
the
space
of
xxx
.
yeares
he
drank
water
.
In
Lent
he
dyd
eate
euery
daye
no
other
thyng
then
as
many
rawe
herbes
as
he
could
holde
betwene
his
ij
.
fyngers
.
In
iii.
yeares
he
neuer
sate
,
neither
slepyng
nor
wakyng
,
except
yt
were
at
the
table
,
in
the
chapiter
house
,
or
in
the
Queer
.
God
daylye
came
to
him
by
the
space
of
iij.
monethes
and
gaue
him
the
vnderstandyng
of
all
scripture
.
¶
In
the
citie
of
Florence
he
preached
in
the
myddest
of
the
strete
on
a
fayre
day
,
but
within
a
lytle
whyle
yt
reyned
,
but
yt
neither
touched
him
,
the
pulpit
nor
the
audience
,
to
the
great
wonder
and
meruayle
of
the
people
.
He
was
visited
of
all
the
Sayntes
,
and
our
blessed
Lady
stoode
by
him
a
whole
daye
in
thesame
forme
and
maner
as
she
was
here
vpon
the
earthe
.
Saynt
Frances
with
his
woundes
appered
vnto
him
and
stoode
a
great
while
by
him
and
sayd
,
Aske
of
me
what
peticion
soeuer
thou
wylt
,
and
I
will
graunte
yt
the.
Then
he
desyred
that
he
myght
touche
and
kysse
his
woundes
,
whiche
S.
Frances
graunted
him
,
and
he
was
wounderfully
comforted
.
Also
as
he
was
syngyng
on
S.
Lawrence
daye
of
his
broylyng
,
sodeynly
saynct
Laurence
appered
vnto
him
as
he
was
broylyng
and
behelde
him
with
a
pitifull
looke
.
And
when
he
song
Salue
Regina
he
appered
agayne
saiyng
,
that
gredyron
is
my
great
comfort
.
Once
as
he
was
saiyng
Masse
he
desyred
to
se
Christ
in
thesame
maner
and
forme
that
he
was
crucified
in
:
Then
appered
Christ
beholdyng
him
with
his
eyes
of
compassion
.
¶
On
a
tyme
he
beyng
in
the
wyldernes
besought
Christ
that
he
woulde
appere
vnto
him
.
Then
appered
Christ
vnto
him
iii.
or
iiij
.
tymes
shewyng
him
his
backe
but
sayd
nothyng
:
But
the
good
brother
seased
not
wepyng
vntill
suche
tyme
as
Christ
turned
his
face
to
him
and
stretched
out
his
handes
as
the
Priest
doth
when
he
is
at
Masse
.
Then
he
fell
doune
at
the
fete
of
Christ
,
whiche
he
put
foorth
for
him
to
kisse
,
whiche
he
wasshed
with
the
teares
of
his
eies
,
like
an
other
Mary
Magdalene
,
and
at
the
last
Chist
offered
him
his
handes
to
kisse
.
And
Freer
Ihon
rising
came
to
the
brest
of
Christe
,
and
embraced
him
,
and
Christe
kissed
him
,
but
after
that
he
preached
most
profound
diuinitie
,
his
hart
burned
an
.
C.
times
more
,
then
if
it
had
bene
in
a
burning
Fornace
,
and
for
extreme
heat
he
was
forced
to
crie
out
and
make
exclamations
.
He
was
once
rapte
of
God
aboue
al
creatures
,
and
his
soule
was
swalowed
vp
in
the
depenes
of
diuinitie
,
and
was
buried
in
the
Sea
of
infinite
knowlege
of
the
godhed
,
insomuch
that
nothing
created
,
nothing
made
,
nor
imagined
,
nothing
thoughte
,
nor
comprehended
,
whiche
either
hart
could
think
,
or
tonge
coulde
speake
,
but
it
was
knowen
and
reueled
vnto
him
,
so
that
his
soul
was
ouerwhelmed
,
as
is
a
drop
of
wine
in
the
sea
,
and
he
saw
nothing
,
but
god
in
all
thinges
and
aboue
all
thinges
,
and
without
al
thinges
,
and
there
he
sawe
iii.
persones
in
one
godhed
.
&c
and
thus
beyng
in
his
meditacion
,
&
in
wailing
and
weping
he
came
to
the
euerlasting
glory
.
Thesame
lefe
Thesame
Frier
receiued
once
within
the
Octauas
of
the
Assumption
of
our
Lady
,
such
a
swetnes
and
confort
,
that
because
he
wold
not
be
harde
of
his
bretherne
he
went
into
a
woode
to
powre
out
the
greate
ioyes
that
was
in
his
hart
and
as
he
cried
out
for
gret
greate
ioy
hee
thoughte
vpon
the
wordes
of
consecration
,
Hoc
est
corpus
meum
.
And
immediatly
he
sawe
in
a
great
Light
Christe
with
the
blessed
Virgin
his
mother
,
and
being
replenished
with
Wonderfull
Ioye
he
returned
and
went
to
Masse
,
and
when
he
had
said
the
preface
,
and
Qui
pridie
.
and
came
to
the
wordes
of
consecration
,
often
times
he
said
Hoc
est
,
Hoc
est
,
but
he
was
not
able
to
expresse
any
more
.
Wherefore
the
Wardeyne
of
the
Frires
,
and
another
of
his
Bretherne
began
to
helpe
him
,
but
he
sodeinly
sayeng
Corpus
meum
.
imediatly
apered
to
him
our
Lorde
Iesus
Christe
shewinge
him
his
greate
humilitie
,
whiche
offred
him self
to
be
incarnate
,
and
causeth
himself
daily
to
come
into
the
handes
of
the
priest
.
When
he
beheld
the
presence
of
the
Lorde
,
his
hart
melted
as
waxe
,
and
fel
back
warde
,
but
he
was
staied
of
the
Wardeine
and
his
bretherne
,
and
as
one
dead
,
they
caried
him
into
the
Vestry
,
and
his
body
was
as
cold
as
Yse
,
and
so
he
laye
as
one
departed
from
the
morninge
vntill
it
was
none
,
so
that
he
coulde
not
make
an
end
of
Masse
These
thinges
,
did
he
declare
vnto
a
certain
brother
in
whome
he
put
greate
confidence
.
¶
At
another
time
as
he
was
ministring
at
Masse
Christe
apered
to
him
with
a
goodly
fayre
Bearde
,
clothed
in
a
precious
Red
Garmente
and
he
was
certified
that
god
was
so
pleased
for
that
masse
the
he
wold
remit
the
sinnes
of
all
the
world
,
but
specially
those
which
were
recommended
The
.lxvi.
leaf
Freer
Ihon
saiyng
Masse
for
the
dead
,
euen
when
he
was
lifting
vp
the
sacrament
whiche
he
offered
vnto
god
the
father
for
the
soules
of
them
that
wer
deceased
hee
sawe
an
infinite
noumbre
of
soules
comming
out
of
purgatory
,
as
it
had
bene
a
noumbre
of
sparkes
,
that
fly
out
of
a
burning
fornace
,
&
so
assended
into
heauen
through
the
merites
of
Christe
whiche
is
daily
offered
vp
in
sacrifice
,
bothe
for
the
quycke
and
dead
,
Thesame
leafe
.
Thesame
Frier
in
the
mount
of
Aluerne
praiyng
,
saw
all
the
ayer
and
yerth
full
of
deuelles
,
Whiche
toke
his
staffe
and
bett
them
,
and
they
fled
from
the
mountaine
.
Thesame
leafe
This
Frier
in
the
feast
of
the
purification
of
our
Lady
beyng
vexed
with
the
Ague
,
deceassed
on
Sayncte
Lawrence
euen
.
Thesame
leafe
.
Freer
Iames
Barletan
to
whome
Christe
appering
in
the
Wildernesse
,
declared
the
remission
of
sinnes
whiche
for
euer
he
had
obteined
,
In
signe
and
token
wherof
Christ
put
the
sayde
Friers
handes
betwene
his
handes
,
for
whose
reuerence
,
the
Frier
washed
not
his
handes
of
long
time
,
&
so
long
he
felt
of
his
handes
a
Merueilous
swete
sauour
But
at
a
certeine
time
two
other
Friers
meting
with
him
desired
him
to
eate
with
them
,
&
he
forgetting
him selfe
washed
his
handes
,
&
after
that
he
neuer
smelled
the
swete
sauour
,
for
the
whiche
,
he
wept
and
lamented
all
the
dayes
of
his
life
.
The
.lxvi.
leafe
Frier
Gerharde
being
a
great
Preacher
,
once
on
Sainct
Frances
daye
he
preached
very
much
in
the
praise
and
commendacion
of
s
.
Frances
A
certein
citizen
hearing
him
so
much
speke
of
S.
Frances
.
was
angry
in
hys
minde
,
therfore
departed
out
of
the
church
&
went
home
to
lay
him
doune
to
slepe
,
whiche
was
sodeinly
rapt
&
caried
into
heauen
,
where
he
sawe
christ
our
Lady
,
&
the
other
sainctes
which
went
in
procession
wise
about
heauen
:
but
when
he
sawe
not
S.
Frances
,
he
sayd
vnto
the
Angel
that
brought
him
thether
,
where
is
Frances
and
al
his
bretherne
of
whome
Freer
Gerhard
talketh
somuche
.
The
angel
answered
,
Loke
&
thou
shalt
se
blessed
Frances
,
and
what
state
hee
hath
.
And
he
loked
,
and
beholde
Christ
lifted
vp
hys
right
arme
,
and
out
of
the
wound
of
his
side
came
fourthe
Frier
Frances
bearing
the
Baner
of
Christes
crosse
and
after
him
folowed
a
greate
numbre
of
his
bretherne
and
sistren
.
And
immediatly
the
citizen
,
was
restored
to
his
owne
house
,
and
he
declared
all
these
thinges
to
Frier
Gerhard
,
and
he
gaue
his
goodes
to
the
bretherne
and
I
was
made
a
barefote
Frier
.
The
same
lefe
A
great
numbre
of
fishes
aswel
greate
as
small
hearde
the
preaching
of
Frier
Anthony
,
euery
one
of
them
holdyng
vp
their
heddes
a
litle
aboue
the
water
,
the
greater
Fishes
stode
in
the
depest
places
,
and
the
smal
,
where
the
water
was
most
shalowest
,
and
the
meane
Fisshes
drue
very
nere
to
Frier
Anthony
.
And
when
he
preached
,
certein
Fisshes
putte
furthe
their
voices
▪
and
other
opened
their
mouthes
,
and
bowed
doune
their
heddes
,
Afterward
the
Fisshes
of
Freer
Anthony
were
licenced
to
depart
,
whiche
beyng
wonderfull
ioyfull
and
full
of
playe
departed
.
The
lxvii
.
leaf
Thesame
Frier
preached
before
the
pope
and
his
Cardinalles
and
there
were
presente
Grecians
,
Italians
,
Frenchemenne
,
Dutchemen
,
Englishmenne
and
diuerse
other
nations
.
And
the
Frier
him self
was
a
Spanyarde
and
euery
person
there
vnderstode
him
,
as
though
he
had
preched
to
Spaniardes
.
Then
they
sayd
one
to
another
,
is
not
this
manne
a
Spaniard
,
and
how
cometh
it
then
to
passe
that
eche
of
vs
heareth
our
owne
natural
tounges
?
The
pope
being
astonyed
aunswered
,
verily
this
is
the
Arke
of
the
testament
.
The
same
leafe
Thesame
Frier
on
a
time
preached
in
a
medow
,
and
christ
being
willing
to
declare
the
holines
of
him
to
the
people
,
sodeinly
reised
a
great
tempest
,
&
when
the
people
wold
haue
departed
,
Frier
Antony
spake
vnto
them
saiyng
:
I
say
vnto
you
on
the
behalfe
of
our
lord
Iesu
Christ
,
that
neuer
a
one
of
you
shall
receaue
any
hurt
.
And
when
the
Haile
and
rayne
sell
so
sore
that
for
the
greatnes
therof
they
were
compassed
as
it
had
bene
with
a
wall
,
yet
nere
vnto
the
Audience
came
neither
reine
nor
Haile
This
miracle
is
grauen
in
a
stone
at
the
entring
of
the
church
of
the
greater
Biturcence
,
as
I
receaued
it
of
a
certeine
Freer
.
The
same
leafe
.
A
certein
person
named
Bonel
wold
not
beleue
that
an
hoste
consecrated
was
the
body
of
christ
,
&
he
sayd
that
his
Asse
did
eate
hostes
:
which
thing
blessed
frier
Anthony
hearing
,
he
went
to
masse
&
broughte
the
consecrated
hoste
and
shewed
it
to
the
Asse
.
And
straight
wai
the
Asse
kneled
doune
and
bowed
his
hed
and
worshiped
it
,
The
same
leafe
.
A
certain
Gentil
woman
brought
in
greate
loue
with
his
preaching
,
●olowed
him
and
loked
not
to
her
household
,
For
the
whiche
her
Husband
blamed
her
.
Then
she
went
vp
into
the
toppe
of
her
House
,
where
She
hearde
Frier
Anthony
preache
.
euen
aswell
as
though
she
had
bene
in
the
churche
.
And
when
her
husband
asked
her
what
she
made
somuche
there
She
said
,
I
heare
the
preaching
of
blessed
Anthony
,
He
saide
shee
was
mad
,
●nd
woulde
not
beleue
vntill
suche
time
as
he
wente
vp
himself
and
heard
him
,
the
which
Miracle
made
him
euer
〈◊〉
go
to
the
preachinge
of
blessed
Anthony
.
The
same
leafe
.
When
frier
Anthony
preached
on
a
time
of
wine
that
was
sente
to
him
and
his
bretherne
,
a
certein
woman
sodeinly
moued
ran
home
thinking
to
bring
him
better
wine
then
any
was
broughte
before
,
&
she
made
so
greate
haste
that
she
forgate
to
stop
the
vessel
and
she
brought
the
Spicket
in
her
hand
,
And
when
she
stode
before
him
with
the
wine
,
she
loked
to
her
hand
&
espied
the
spicket
,
immediatley
She
ranne
home
and
found
all
the
Celler
ful
of
Wine
:
but
trusting
in
the
merites
of
blessed
Anthony
,
she
put
the
spiker
in
to
the
vessell
,
&
sodenly
the
vessell
was
so
ful
of
wine
that
it
ranne
ouer
.
Thesame
leafe
.
A
certein
man
as
he
was
confessing
his
sinnes
to
blessed
Anthony
,
so
lamented
that
he
coulde
not
for
weping
speake
one
word
,
wherefore
Freer
Anthony
commaunded
him
to
write
his
sinnes
and
so
he
did
,
but
by
the
merites
of
blessed
Frier
Anthony
and
his
earneste
and
harty
contricion
he
found
the
writing
all
wiped
out
.
The
.lxviii.
leafe
.
Certeine
heriticques
desired
Frier
Anthony
to
diner
,
and
they
saide
vnto
him
,
the
Gospell
commaundeth
,
that
thou
shouldest
eate
of
all
suche
thinges
as
are
set
before
the
,
&
they
set
before
him
a
foule
greate
tode
,
whiche
blessed
Anthony
seing
,
he
made
ouer
the
toade
the
signe
of
the
crosse
it
was
conuerted
into
a
Rosted
Capon
.
The
lxix
.
leafe
Frier
Peter
often
times
fasted
S
Mighelles
euen
.
And
on
a
time
S.
Michaell
appered
vnto
him
saiyng
,
freer
Peter
thou
hast
faithfully
laboured
for
me
,
and
hast
put
thy self
to
great
peines
.
Beholde
therefore
,
I
am
come
to
confort
the
,
and
aske
of
me
what
peticion
thou
wilt
.
To
whom
Frier
Peter
saide
,
this
I
desier
the
that
thou
wilt
obteine
for
me
the
remission
of
al
my
sinnes
.
And
S
Mighell
said
,
Aske
some
other
peticion
,
for
that
I
will
easely
get
the.
Then
Frier
Peter
desiring
nothing
els
,
said
vnto
.
S.
Michael
and
I
for
the
faith
and
trust
that
thou
haste
in
me
will
procure
many
thankes
to
be
geuen
the.
This
communication
betwene
them
,
dured
a
greate
parte
of
the
night
.
Thesame
leafe
.
Freer
Peter
desired
that
he
might
knowe
by
reuelation
whiche
either
of
our
Lady
,
S.
Ihon
Euaungeliste
,
or
S.
Frances
did
sorowe
moost
for
the
passion
and
suffring
of
Iesu
Christ
,
And
when
he
had
wept
long
,
our
Lady
.
S.
Ihon
&
s
Fran
.
wearing
most
precious
garmentes
,
apered
vnto
him
but
yet
blessed
Frances
was
better
appareiled
then
Saynct
Ihon.
Then
saide
Saynct
Ihon
,
be
not
afraied
Frier
Peter
,
behold
wee
are
come
hether
to
conforte
the
,
and
to
declare
vnto
the
thy
doubt
.
Wherfore
thou
shalt
vnderstande
,
that
next
after
our
Lady
and
me
,
Blessed
Frances
aboue
all
other
most
sorowed
the
death
of
Iesu
Christ
.
And
when
Freer
Peter
asked
of
the
Apostle
wherefore
he
had
not
on
so
fayr
a
vestiment
as
had
S.
Frances
.
he
aunswered
that
S.
Frances
went
vyler
here
in
earth
,
therfor
is
he
now
most
precyously
clothed
in
heauen
.
Then
S.
Ihon
gaue
vnto
Freer
Peter
a
goodly
garment
,
which
when
he
would
haue
put
vpon
him
,
he
fell
doune
as
one
astonnyed
&
cryed
,
Freer
Conrade
,
Freer
Conrade
come
,
and
helpe
me
&
thou
shalt
se
wonders
,
and
ymmediatly
Freer
Conrade
came
vnto
him
,
and
he
declared
to
him
all
thynges
.
The
lxx
.
leafe
.
Freer
Suffian
when
he
was
sycke
would
receaue
no
medecyn
of
any
Carnall
Physician
,
for
he
had
deserued
to
be
comforted
of
our
Lady
.
And
our
Lady
came
vnto
him
with
iii.
Virgynes
,
whiche
brought
in
theyr
handes
iii.
boxes
.
And
our
blessed
Lady
tooke
a
spone
and
gaue
vnto
him
a
sponfull
of
the
heauenly
electuary
:
which
when
he
had
tasted
he
felt
so
much
comfort
and
swetnes
,
that
he
thought
yt
not
possible
for
his
Soule
to
remayne
any
lenger
in
his
body
,
and
he
sayde
vnto
oure
Lady
,
no
more
most
swete
Mother
,
no
more
,
for
I
am
not
hable
to
susteyn
so
muche
swetnes
.
Yet
she
once
agayn
reachyng
him
of
thesame
electuary
emptyed
cleane
the
first
boxe
.
Then
oure
Lady
tooke
the
second
:
when
the
sycke
Freer
perceaued
that
,
he
cryed
and
sayde
,
O
Blessed
Mother
of
God
,
if
my
soule
be
vtterly
melted
with
the
swetnes
of
the
first
boxe
,
howe
is
yt
possible
that
I
shal
be
hable
to
endure
to
tast
of
the
seconde
?
Then
sayd
the
blessed
Vyrgyn
to
him
.
My
Sonne
thou
shalt
tast
a
lytle
of
this
second
boxe
also
.
And
so
sone
as
he
had
tasted
therof
,
he
was
illumined
with
suche
a
Heauenly
brightnes
,
that
he
sawe
clerely
in
the
boke
of
lyfe
the
names
of
all
theim
that
shal
be
saued
tyll
the
daye
of
Iudgement
.
And
when
he
dyed
,
he
sayd
.
O
in
Pace
,
O
inidipsum
,
O
dormiam
,
O
requiescam
,
&c.
Thesame
leafe
.
Freer
Ihon
had
so
muche
honestye
,
that
his
brethren
who
perfightly
knowe
his
conuersacion
tooke
him
to
be
a
woman
.
Thesame
leafe
.
Christ
app●red
vnto
Freer
Ihon
and
layde
vnto
him
,
My
Sonne
Freer
Ihon
,
Aske
of
me
what
thou
wilt
.
And
he
sayde
,
My
Lorde
I
know
not
what
to
saye
,
I
beseche
the
to
forgeue
me
all
my
synnes
.
And
I
beseche
the
also
to
graunt
me
my
purgatory
in
this
world
.
And
a
voyce
aunswered
,
I
wyll
do
yt
:
and
chose
the
whether
thou
wilt
be
one
daye
in
purgatory
or
vj.
dayes
ponyshed
in
this
worlde
,
and
he
chose
vij
.
dayes
in
this
worlde
.
The
lxxii
.
leafe
.
Freer
Frances
saiyng
Masse
found
in
the
Chalice
a
great
spyder
,
whiche
he
would
not
caste
out
,
but
dronke
yt
vp
with
the
blood
.
Afterwarde
rubbyng
his
shynbone
and
clawynge
where
he
felt
yt
ytche
,
thesame
spyder
came
out
of
his
legg
with
out
doyng
him
any
hurt
,
Thesame
leafe
.
Freer
Sigismonde
after
his
death
apered
vnto
a
certeyn
woman
saiyng
:
Go
to
a
Freer
that
is
called
Restang
,
and
byd
him
that
he
bryng
my
Body
into
this
wood
.
The
woman
dyd
not
his
message
,
wherefore
the
next
nyght
he
appered
agayne
vnto
her
saiyng
,
that
if
she
woulde
not
do
his
message
,
he
woulde
vexe
her
from
place
to
place
.
But
yet
she
dyd
yt
not
.
The
thirde
nyght
he
lykewyse
appered
vnto
her
and
caused
her
to
be
skorged
very
sore
.
The
woman
beyng
taught
and
feared
by
strypes
dyd
her
message
vnto
the
Freer
,
but
the
Freer
would
not
remoue
his
body
.
The
fourth
tyme
he
appered
vnto
the
woman
saiyng
,
Go
thy
wayes
and
commaunde
Restang
that
he
delyuer
the
my
body
to
be
remoued
,
and
for
a
token
saye
this
vnto
him
,
that
once
he
offended
in
periury
,
of
whiche
offence
he
neuer
confessed
him selfe
,
and
commaund
him
now
to
confesse
yt
,
elles
he
shall
go
to
hell
.
When
the
Freer
hearde
this
,
first
he
confessed
his
periury
and
before
all
men
detested
and
defyed
the
Deuell
,
and
declared
the
holynes
of
Sigismond
.
Then
heard
he
a
voyce
from
Heauen
saiyng
,
Freer
Sigismond
wyll
lye
in
the
wood
and
wyll
be
buryed
vnder
the
shadow
of
the
Baye
and
Myrre
trees
.
A
certeyn
Freer
of
a
great
deuocion
gate
awaye
one
of
his
fyngers
and
one
of
his
tethe
.
Wherfore
once
agayne
he
appered
to
the
woman
saiyng
:
Go
thy
wayes
agayn
to
Freer
Restang
and
saye
vnto
him
that
he
hathe
not
caryed
my
whole
body
into
the
wood
,
for
there
lacketh
one
tothe
and
one
fynger
.
Whiche
with
all
diligence
he
sought
for
and
with
all
reuerence
and
great
reioysyng
caryed
and
ioyned
yt
to
the
rest
of
the
body
.
The
lxxiii
.
leafe
.
Freer
Gerhard
on
a
tyme
when
he
and
his
brethren
had
nothyng
to
eate
,
obteyned
by
praier
a
dyshe
of
heauenvly
meate
,
wher
withall
they
wer
wonderfull
plentefully
refreshed
,
and
the
meate
was
so
excedyngly
well
seasoned
,
that
they
sayd
they
neuer
in
all
their
life
did
eate
meate
so
well
dreassed
.
Thesame
leafe
.
Freer
Mathew
of
Marcilia
had
a
cancker
in
his
preuy
member
,
and
sodeynly
as
he
put
into
yt
a
pece
of
Freer
Gerhardes
cote
,
he
was
made
whole
.
He
healed
a
wonderfull
nomber
of
Cattell
and
other
vnreasonabe
Beastes
.
Thesame
leafe
.
Freer
Antony
beyng
dead
dyd
sweate
excedyngly
,
somuche
that
his
very
garment
was
wett
.
And
there
appered
syttyng
vpon
his
body
a
goodly
young
man
whiche
recited
all
his
life
,
and
then
departed
awaye
.
The
lxxv
.
leafe
.
Freer
Drodro
was
so
holy
that
one
Angell
serued
him
at
Masse
,
and
another
Angell
made
ready
his
horsse
to
ryde
.
Thesame
leafe
.
Freer
Walter
was
vniustly
deposed
from
the
bishoprick
of
of
pictauyan
by
pope
Clement
the
v.
The
lxxvi
.
leafe
.
Freer
Lewes
was
of
the
lignage
of
Kynges
,
and
yet
he
made
him selfe
a
Barefoot
Freer
(
and
the
Sonne
of
blessed
poore
Saynt
Frances
crucified
)
whose
master
was
Poncius
Carnobell
a
man
sufficiently
learned
,
and
he
dyd
learne
in
vii
.
yeares
his
Grammer
,
Logique
,
Astronomy
&
holy
diuinite
.
He
was
so
fayre
that
women
sayde
they
neuer
sawe
a
fayrer
,
and
they
were
neuer
satisfied
with
the
sight
of
his
face
.
A
certeyn
person
brought
vnto
him
virgynes
and
maydes
,
whiche
he
abiected
from
him
as
rybaldes
.
And
he
would
sharply
reproue
and
rebuke
the
brethren
when
they
loked
vpon
any
women
,
and
for
feare
and
reuerence
of
him
they
durst
do
no
vnhonest
thyng
.
He
would
not
once
looke
vpon
his
syster
the
quene
of
Arragon
,
and
he
dispised
all
honors
and
salutacions
.
A
certeyn
fayre
Lady
hearyng
of
his
great
chastite
,
thought
she
would
proue
whether
he
were
so
chast
as
he
was
reported
,
and
she
came
into
the
Churche
and
excedyng
earnestly
beheld
him
,
but
he
not
once
moued
.
He
contynued
all
nyght
in
prayer
and
wepyng
.
And
there
came
to
him
the
deuell
in
the
lykenes
of
a
black
Catt
,
which
with
the
signe
of
the
crosse
he
dryue
away
.
He
called
lice
the
precious
iewelles
of
poore
men
.
Euery
day
he
confessed
him selfe
and
sayd
Masse
.
He
slept
vpon
the
earth
in
token
of
great
humilite
.
When
he
heard
talkyng
of
any
deuoute
matter
,
he
would
wepe
streyght
waye
.
A
certeyn
woman
of
Tholose
hauyng
a
blody
flyxe
by
the
space
of
xiiij
.
yeres
,
sayd
within
her selfe
,
O
if
I
might
touche
but
the
hemme
of
Freer
Lewes
garment
I
shoulde
be
safe
,
the
whiche
came
so
to
passe
.
&c.
He
dyd
many
other
miracles
which
here
I
omyt
.
At
whose
sepulcher
the
waxe
candelles
beyng
put
out
,
wer
agayne
with
a
light
from
Heauen
lightened
.
He
reysed
from
death
to
life
vi
.
persones
and
more
,
and
he
dyd
many
other
thynges
.
The
lxxvii
.
leafe
.
Freer
Roger
gaue
one
of
his
brethren
in
penaunce
for
speakyng
of
an
ydle
word
,
to
saye
the
whole
Psalme
of
Miserere
,
Credo
in
deum
,
Pater
noster
,
Salue
regina
.
¶
He
sayd
that
he
knewe
a
man
that
was
an
infinite
nomber
of
tymes
rapt
and
taken
vp
into
the
highest
heauen
,
Domine
recede
a
me
,
&c.
Lorde
go
from
me
.
And
the
signes
of
this
great
feruoure
was
much
sene
in
his
face
.
¶
In
a
certeyn
vision
he
sawe
Iesus
and
sayd
vnto
him
,
Domine
quis
es
?
Lord
who
arte
thou
?
Iesus
annswered
,
Ego
sum
qui
sum
,
I
am
that
I
am
,
and
Iesus
sayde
also
,
welcome
my
sonne
,
and
he
blessed
him
saiyng
,
thy
synnes
are
forgeuen
the.
¶
He
was
once
taken
vp
into
Paradise
&
there
he
saw
God
talkyng
with
all
the
sayntes
one
after
another
.
And
a
certeyn
saynct
sayde
vnto
Freer
Roger
,
of
what
order
arte
thou
?
and
he
aunswered
a
Barefoote
Freer
:
then
he
gaue
vnto
him
a
consecrated
hoste
,
and
commaunded
him
that
he
should
go
preache
vnto
certeyn
Freers
whiche
wer
weake
in
Christ
,
and
so
he
dyd
.
The
lxxviii
.
leafe
.
Freer
Roger
inquired
of
Freer
Bertrand
of
certeyn
Brethren
whether
they
wer
saued
.
Freer
Bertrand
aunswered
,
what
askest
thou
me
of
the
brethren
,
I
certefy
the
that
all
that
dye
in
the
Order
and
Rule
of
Blessed
Frances
are
saued
.
Thesame
leafe
.
When
he
was
dead
he
appered
vnto
a
certeyn
Woman
,
which
confessed
all
her
synnes
to
him
,
and
he
gaue
her
absolucion
.
Thesame
leafe
.
In
Brabant
lyeth
buryed
Freer
Peter
,
which
was
sene
of
a
childe
that
could
skant
speake
,
at
the
celebracion
of
his
Masse
eate
Christ
in
the
forme
and
maner
of
a
lytle
Childe
.
The
lxxix
.
leafe
Freer
Benedyct
whiche
is
buryed
in
Erffort
,
was
our
Ladyes
butler
.
Thesame
leafe
.
Freer
Conrade
lyeth
buryed
in
the
prouynce
of
Austriche
in
the
new
citie
,
which
was
the
very
father
and
chefe
worker
of
miracles
:
but
because
he
was
not
buryed
with
our
brethren
,
the
Minister
commanded
him
that
he
should
worke
no
more
myracles
.
To
the
which
commaundement
he
obeyed
,
and
sith
that
tyme
he
neuer
wrought
any
mor
myracles
.
Thesame
lefe
.
Christ
appered
with
a
terrible
countenaunce
to
a
certeyn
Prior
,
saiyng
vnto
him
,
Thou
Prior
of
what
Order
arte
thou
?
and
he
aunswered
,
of
the
Order
of
S.
Benedict
,
and
Christ
sayd
vnto
blessed
Benedict
,
sayth
this
man
true
?
And
Benedict
aunswered
,
he
is
a
destroyer
of
my
order
and
of
his
felowes
that
are
with
him
.
Then
Christ
commaunded
that
he
should
be
hanged
vpon
the
Thesame
leafe
.
Freer
Agnell
,
receaued
into
the
order
of
the
Barefoot
Freers
certeyn
Englishmennes
children
,
and
he
sent
x.
pound
sterlyng
to
Rome
to
bye
them
the
decretalles
to
study
in
,
to
put
awaye
ydle
tymes
.
He
was
buryed
in
Oxford
in
a
Chest
of
wood
,
whose
body
when
the
brethren
woulde
haue
remoued
into
a
Sepulchre
which
they
had
prepared
for
him
,
they
found
his
Chest
full
of
clere
Oyle
smellyng
lyke
Balsamum
,
and
his
fleshe
beyng
resolued
,
the
bones
dyd
swyme
vpon
the
oyle
.
The
lxxx
.
leafe
.
In
this
leafe
are
recited
dyuerse
Freers
whiche
wrote
good
workes
,
The
lxxxii
.
leafe
.
This
is
the
most
excellentest
Order
of
all
other
Orders
,
for
in
this
Order
hath
bene
the
most
notable
and
excellent
personages
,
as
Pope
Gregory
the
nynth
called
Vgo
,
whome
S.
Frances
dyd
prophesy
before
that
he
shoulde
be
Pope
,
and
dyd
allwayes
wryte
him
the
most
worshipfullest
father
of
all
the
world
.
Also
Pope
Martyn
desyred
to
be
buryed
in
our
habite
.
Pope
Alexander
the
fourth
was
a
Barefoot
Freer
,
and
graunted
to
the
order
many
Bulles
and
Priuilegies
.
Also
S.
Frances
appered
with
his
woundes
vnto
the
Kyng
of
Constantinople
and
willed
him
Thesame
leafe
.
In
blessed
Frances
is
fulfilled
that
was
spoken
to
Abraham
.
If
ther
be
any
that
can
nombre
the
dust
of
the
earth
&c.
Wherfor
the
deuell
sayd
before
to
a
certeyn
woman
,
the
Order
of
the
Barefoote
Freers
,
The
lxxxiiii
.
leafe
.
Blessed
S.
Clare
was
first
a
Syster
of
the
Order
of
the
Minorites
,
otherwyse
called
Barefoote
Freers
,
whiche
contynually
dyd
wepe
and
lament
the
passion
of
Christ
,
so
long
that
at
the
last
the
Deuell
appered
vnto
her
saiyng
that
she
should
lose
the
light
of
her
Eyen
.
To
whome
when
she
had
sayd
,
that
they
cannot
lose
their
sight
that
foloweth
the
light
of
life
:
the
Deuell
fled
awaye
.
Often
tymes
she
spake
with
God
&
dyd
many
miracles
.
Pope
Alexander
the
fourth
being
syck
she
visited
him
,
&
he
offred
her
his
fete
to
kysse
.
Thesame
leafe
.
Freer
Iunyper
is
Christes
Iester
.
The
lxx●viii
.
leafe
Freer
Hely
sayd
vnto
blessed
Fances
,
here
are
certeyn
brethren
that
here
saye
thou
wylt
make
a
newe
rule
,
and
they
fearyng
that
thou
wylt
make
yt
to
streight
and
sharpe
,
saye
that
thou
shalt
make
it
for
thy self
and
not
for
theim
.
Whiche
when
he
heard
,
blessed
Frances
turned
his
face
toward
heauen
and
spake
thus
vnto
Christ
,
Lorde
,
sayd
not
I
well
vnto
the
,
that
they
ought
to
beleue
me
.
Then
all
they
heard
the
voyce
of
Christ
aunsweryng
in
the
ayre
,
Frances
,
there
is
nothyng
in
thy
rule
that
is
thyne
,
but
all
that
is
there
,
is
myne
,
and
I
wyll
that
the
rule
be
obserued
to
the
letter
,
to
the
letter
,
to
the
letter
,
without
any
glose
,
without
any
glose
,
whiche
wordes
proue
that
our
rule
is
instituted
of
Christ
.
Then
blessed
Frances
turned
him
to
his
brethren
and
sayd
,
now
ye
haue
hearde
,
now
ye
haue
heard
,
now
ye
haue
hearde
,
Thesame
leafe
.
The
rule
of
the
Freer
Minors
,
otherwise
called
Barefoot
Freers
,
was
made
of
blessed
S.
Frances
standyng
and
beyng
resydent
&
fastyng
in
the
mount
,
Christ
reuelyng
yt
vnto
him
.
Wherfore
he
compareth
his
rule
with
the
law
of
Moses
that
was
geuen
in
Mount
Synay
,
and
the
law
(
as
they
call
yt
)
of
the
gospell
that
was
publisshed
by
Christ
in
the
mounteyn
.
No
man
ought
to
doubt
but
this
Rule
is
Christes
,
because
Christ
affirmed
yt
so
to
be
before
so
great
a
nomber
of
brethren
.
The
lxxxix
.
leafe
.
The
Apostles
wer
not
learned
.
Therfore
it
is
not
nedefull
that
the
Frances
Freers
shoulde
be
learned
,
for
they
are
as
the
Apostles
.
Thesame
leafe
.
The
rule
of
the
Minorites
or
Barefoote
Freers
begynneth
thus
.
The
rule
and
life
of
the
Barefoote
Freers
is
this
,
the
obseruacyon
of
the
Gospell
of
our
Lorde
Iesu
Christ
.
And
in
the
ende
of
the
tytle
is
this
added
.
This
is
the
holy
Gospell
of
our
Lorde
Iesu
Christ
which
we
promes
to
obserue
and
kepe
.
There
is
no
rule
that
begynneth
as
dothe
this
rule
,
nor
is
so
termed
as
ye
may
perceaue
,
for
ther
is
none
so
Gospell
lyke
as
is
this
blessed
rule
,
Also
this
rule
is
the
life
of
the
Apostles
,
and
consequently
of
oure
Lorde
Iesu
Christ
,
for
as
he
had
xij
.
Apostles
,
so
hathe
this
rule
xij
.
chapiters
,
and
as
Christ
had
lxxii
.
disciples
,
so
in
this
rule
of
S.
Frances
is
lxxii
.
verses
.
The
C.i.
leafe
What
maner
of
thing
Frances
rule
was
,
S.
Frances
him selfe
sheweth
,
saiyng
,
yt
is
the
booke
of
life
,
the
hope
of
health
,
the
marow
of
the
Gospell
,
the
keye
of
Paradise
,
the
state
of
perfeccion
,
and
the
couenaunt
of
euerlastyng
life
.
Thesame
leafe
.
Frances
sayd
vnto
Christ
,
wherof
lyue
my
brethren
whiche
dwell
in
the
wyldernes
?
Christ
sayd
vnto
him
,
I
will
fede
theim
as
I
dyd
fede
the
Children
of
Israell
in
wyldernes
.
Thesame
leafe
.
Frances
beyng
vexed
with
the
offences
of
his
brethren
,
sayd
vnto
Christ
.
Lorde
I
recommend
vnto
the
my
famely
which
thou
gauest
me
.
And
forth
with
the
Lorde
sayd
vnto
him
,
thou
noddy
and
ydeot
,
tell
me
,
wherfor
dost
thou
thus
vexe
thy selfe
when
any
brother
doth
go
out
of
religion
?
Aunswer
me
,
who
planted
and
ordeyned
this
religion
,
was
yt
not
of
my
plantyng
?
I
haue
apoynted
the
for
a
signe
vnto
theim
,
the
the
workes
whiche
I
worke
in
the
,
they
may
also
worke
in
the.
If
one
forsake
thyne
order
,
I
wyll
send
the
another
,
if
he
be
not
borne
I
wyll
cause
him
to
be
borne
,
and
put
the
cace
that
there
remayned
but
iij.
brethren
,
yet
should
yt
be
my
religion
,
which
I
wyll
neuer
forsake
.
Whiche
wordes
when
Saynct
Frances
heard
,
he
was
excedyngly
comforted
.
Thesame
leafe
.
Guncer
a
Monke
of
Barrauia
,
there
appered
vnto
him
,
a
very
fayre
woman
saiyng
,
take
me
to
thy
wyfe
,
and
he
aunswered
I
wyll
not
take
the
for
I
am
a
Monke
.
She
aunswered
,
I
am
S.
Frances
rule
,
take
me
&
thou
shalt
be
saued
.
By
the
whiche
reuelacion
he
was
made
a
Barefoote
Freer
.
Here
I
omye
many
thynges
.
The
C.v.
leafe
.
A
certeyn
person
was
very
desyrous
to
serue
God
,
&
Christ
beyng
glad
to
here
the
prayers
of
good
men
appered
vnto
him
in
a
barefoot
Freers
cote
saiyng
,
he
that
wyll
serue
me
,
must
serue
me
in
this
maner
,
&
so
he
vanyshed
away
.
But
he
neuer
sawe
any
barefoote
Freer
,
and
therfore
he
made
him self
a
Monk
,
howbeyt
on
a
tyme
when
he
espyed
ii
.
barfoote
Freers
goyng
by
the
way
,
forthwith
he
forsooke
that
religion
and
becam
a
Barefoot
Freer
.
Thesame
leafe
.
A
certeyn
Freer
sayd
vnto
Freer
Giles
beyng
bothe
of
one
house
,
Freer
Giles
I
can
tell
the
good
newes
,
then
sayde
Freer
Giles
,
I
pray
the
tell
theim
.
And
he
sayd
,
this
night
I
was
caryed
into
hell
,
and
I
found
not
one
of
out
brethren
there
.
Thesame
leafe
.
A
naughty
Freer
beyng
dead
was
of
the
Deuelles
caryed
to
hell
.
whiche
S.
Frances
seyng
,
sayd
vnto
the
Deuell
,
bryng
him
hether
to
me
,
for
I
wyll
not
that
he
shal
be
caryed
into
hell
in
my
habite
,
and
he
pulled
of
the
hood
from
his
garment
,
and
then
the
Deuelles
caryed
him
into
hell
.
This
vision
was
sene
of
a
certeyn
brother
whiche
ymmedyatly
came
and
found
the
Freer
dead
and
his
hood
pulled
from
his
cote
,
wherby
he
was
certefied
of
his
dammpnacion
.
Thesame
leafe
.
The
Deuell
caryed
a
certeyn
dysobedyent
Freer
bothe
body
&
soule
into
hell
in
the
syght
of
all
the
brethren
.
Thesame
leafe
.
A
certeyn
Freer
sawe
this
vision
.
All
the
sayntes
passyng
by
the
highe
aulter
made
lowe
curtesy
before
the
sacrament
.
After
theim
folowed
very
fayre
Angelles
bearyng
chayres
whiche
they
dyd
set
on
the
vppermost
step
of
the
altare
.
After
them
folowed
Christ
and
our
Lady
,
and
next
after
came
S.
Frances
and
his
brethren
.
After
theim
were
led
ii
.
Freers
,
their
hoodes
pulled
ouer
their
faces
&
their
handes
bound
behynde
theim
:
after
whome
folowed
ii
.
mules
laden
with
great
bookes
.
When
Christ
and
our
Lady
wer
set
in
the
seates
prepared
for
theim
before
the
altare
.
Then
Saynct
Frances
after
he
had
done
his
reuerence
first
to
Christ
and
then
to
our
Lady
he
sate
him
doune
on
the
right
hand
.
Then
were
the
ii
captyues
brought
before
Christ
,
who
sayde
vnto
blessed
Frances
,
Frances
,
these
men
were
of
thy
Ordre
,
therfore
Iudge
thou
theim
.
And
blessed
Frances
before
theim
all
sayd
to
the
first
Freer
,
what
Order
art
thou
of
?
And
he
aunswered
,
of
thyne
blessed
Frances
.
Then
saynct
Frances
asked
him
,
whose
were
all
these
bookes
?
He
aunswered
,
myne
.
Then
blessed
Frances
sayde
.
hast
thou
done
as
these
bookes
taught
the
?
He
aunswered
no.
And
blessed
Frances
sayd
,
in
hauyng
these
bookes
thou
wast
a
proprietary
for
thou
haddest
theim
agaynst
the
rule
,
&
those
thynges
which
God
commaunded
the
in
theim
,
thou
hast
not
done
:
Therfore
I
(
sayde
blessed
Frances
)
on
the
behalfe
of
God
the
Father
,
and
of
oure
Lorde
Iesu
Christ
his
Sonne
,
and
the
holy
Ghost
,
and
the
blessed
Virgyn
,
and
all
the
holy
company
of
heauen
,
and
myne
,
do
cursse
and
condempne
the
into
euerlastyng
fyre
.
And
ymediatly
the
earth
opened
and
swalowed
vp
him
.
the
bookes
and
mules
.
And
in
lyke
maner
he
vsed
the
other
Freer
,
Then
all
the
Saynctes
with
greate
deuocion
beganne
to
syng
,
Te
deum
laudamus
.
The
C.
vi
.
leafe
Christ
sayd
vnto
Freer
Conrade
,
In
thy
Order
are
certeyn
whiche
willyngly
and
effecteously
obserue
the
rule
,
and
they
ymediatly
flye
into
euerlastynge
lyfe
.
There
be
other
that
be
wyllyng
,
but
do
yt
not
effecteously
,
and
they
shall
be
purged
in
purgatory
.
There
be
some
whiche
neyther
are
wyllyng
,
nor
yet
do
yt
in
effect
,
&
of
theim
take
thou
no
care
,
for
they
are
none
of
myne
sayth
the
Lord
,
as
yt
is
wrytten
,
verely
,
verely
I
saye
vnto
you
,
I
knowe
you
not
.
Thesame
leafe
.
The
wardeyn
of
the
house
of
the
Barefoote
Freers
in
Parys
commaunded
a
Freer
that
was
dyeng
ii
.
thynges
,
one
that
ymediatly
he
should
go
to
Paradise
The
second
,
that
after
he
was
dead
,
he
should
returne
assom●
as
was
possible
agayn
,
and
declare
vnto
him
how
many
soules
departed
the
world
the
same
tim●
that
he
deceassed
,
and
how
man●
went
to
Paradise
,
how
many
t●
purgatory
&
howe
many
to
hell
After
thre
dayes
the
same
Free●
gloriously
returned
agayn
to
th●
wardayn
,
and
beyng
asked
why
he
taryed
so
long
,
he
aunswered
that
he
was
purged
in
purgatory
.
And
beyng
asked
wherfore
,
he
aunswered
,
because
I
coulde
syng
well
,
when
my
other
brethren
dyd
not
syng
well
,
I
would
some
tyme
a
litle
smyle
&
mocke
theim
.
And
you
shall
vnderstande
that
thesame
tyme
that
I
departed
,
there
were
fyue
thousand
soules
deceassed
,
of
the
whiche
one
went
to
Paradyse
,
iii.
to
purgatory
,
of
the
whiche
I
was
one
,
and
the
rest
went
all
to
hell
.
Thesame
leafe
.
Another
Freer
,
because
he
dyd
not
bowe
him self
at
Gloria
patri
,
suffred
this
peyne
in
purgatory
.
He
was
set
vpon
a
highe
piller
,
that
was
streight
and
narow
aboue
,
whiche
stode
in
the
myddes
of
a
greate
sea
,
and
an
hundred
tymes
in
the
daye
,
and
as
many
tymes
in
the
nyght
he
bowed
him selfe
.
so
long
tyll
the
nomber
of
bowynges
whiche
he
had
omytted
was
fulfilled
:
And
he
sayde
that
thesame
bowyng
was
to
him
wonderous
peynfull
,
for
he
thought
euer
that
he
should
haue
fallen
into
the
botome
of
the
sea
.
The
C.
vii
.
leafe
.
Oure
blessed
Lady
appered
vnto
a
certeyn
Barefoote
Freer
with
saynct
Peter
and
a
greate
nombre
of
other
sayntes
,
saiyng
,
let
vs
go
to
Antioche
,
for
the
soule
of
a
brother
of
thyne
order
,
whiche
to
morow
about
the
third
houre
of
the
daye
shall
departe
from
the
bodye
,
and
we
will
receaue
him
.
I
omyt
many
suche
as
this
is
,
and
truly
the
blessed
virgin
and
the
deuell
were
wonderfully
troubled
with
Fryers
.
The
C.
xii
.
leafe
.
S.
Frances
called
a
wolfe
his
brother
,
for
ther
was
a
certeyn
mad
and
outragious
wolfe
dyd
hurte
many
in
the
citee
,
but
Saynct
Frances
makyng
a
crosse
ouer
him
sayde
,
brother
wolfe
,
thou
shalt
promes
me
that
thou
wilt
neuer
deuoure
more
,
&
I
wyll
promes
the
that
the
citezens
shall
norishe
and
fede
the.
And
the
wolfe
bowyng
his
hed
made
a
playne
signe
&
promes
,
that
he
would
so
do
.
And
blessed
Frances
sayd
to
the
wolfe
,
geue
me
thy
fayth
.
Then
the
wolfe
reached
out
his
right
fore
fote
&
gentely
layd
yt
in
S.
Frances
hand
.
Then
S.
Frances
sayde
,
brother
wolfe
,
I
commaund
the
in
the
name
of
our
lord
Iesu
Christ
that
thou
come
nowe
with
me
.
And
he
went
with
him
.
Then
all
the
citezens
&
women
merueyled
.
Afterward
s
.
Frances
preachyng
sayd
vnto
the
people
,
my
brother
wolfe
which
standeth
here
present
before
thou
hath
promised
you
his
fayth
and
peace
,
if
so
he
that
you
wil
promes
him
to
geue
him
euery
day
sufficient
foode
,
&
for
brother
wolfe
I
wil
be
suertye
.
Then
all
with
one
voyce
promysed
to
geue
him
sufficient
foode
.
Then
S.
Frances
before
theim
all
sayd
to
the
wolfe
,
and
thou
brother
wolfe
shalt
promes
to
kepe
couenaunt
with
theim
.
The
C.
xiii
.
leafe
.
S.
Frances
as
he
was
preachyng
,
a
woman
began
to
playe
on
a
tymberell
,
&
Frances
commaunded
her
to
peace
,
but
she
would
not
,
Then
S.
Frances
sayde
,
thou
deuell
,
take
that
is
thyne
.
And
ymmediatly
the
wretched
woman
was
caryed
of
the
deuell
into
the
ayre
&
was
neuer
sene
after
.
Thesame
leafe
.
A
certeyn
Bysshop
preachyng
dyd
excedyngly
commend
&
extoll
S.
Frances
allegyng
this
sentence
Psal.
C.
xlvii
.
that
God
sent
not
suche
a
person
as
Frances
was
to
no
nacion
&c.
After
the
Sermon
S.
Frances
bowyng
doune
to
the
fete
of
the
Bysshop
sayd
vnto
him
,
My
Lorde
Bysshop
,
truly
I
saye
vnto
you
there
was
neuer
man
in
this
worlde
that
dyd
me
somuche
honour
as
this
daye
you
haue
done
.
Thesame
leafe
A
faire
woman
came
to
s
.
Frances
temptyng
him
.
And
streight
waye
he
stryped
him selfe
starke
naked
&
layed
him
doune
vpon
the
burnyng
coles
and
sayd
vnto
her
,
this
is
my
bed
,
come
lye
with
me
.
Then
the
woman
departed
.
Thesame
he
dyd
with
another
woman
in
the
C.
xiiii
.
leafe
.
The
C.
xiiii
.
leafe
.
S.
Frances
saluted
the
byrdes
of
the
ayre
,
and
he
called
theim
brethren
&
commaunded
theim
to
heare
the
worde
of
the
Lorde
.
Then
the
byrdes
assembled
theim selues
in
great
flockes
and
came
to
his
preachyng
,
and
they
stretched
out
their
neckes
and
opened
their
throtes
and
were
very
attentife
to
his
doctryne
.
And
after
the
Sermon
S.
Frances
went
thorough
the
myddes
of
theim
,
&
then
he
gaue
theim
lycence
to
depart
,
&
they
fled
away
with
a
great
crye
and
noyes
deuydyng
theim selues
into
the
iiij
.
partes
of
the
world
,
signifyeng
that
S.
Frances
Rule
shoulde
be
publisshed
thorougout
all
the
worlde
.
The
C.
xix
.
leafe
.
Blessed
Frances
commaunded
a
certeyn
Freer
beyng
of
a
noble
stocke
,
that
he
should
go
preache
naked
.
The
Freer
aunswered
&
sayd
.
Father
,
what
benefite
shall
I
haue
therby
?
S.
Frances
aunswered
.
I
wyll
assure
the
of
euerlastyng
lyfe
.
Then
he
with
great
ioye
went
foorth
and
preached
naked
.
The
C.
xx
.
leafe
.
A
certeyn
Freer
beyng
dead
came
to
heauen
gates
&
knocked
.
Then
the
porter
sayd
vnto
him
,
what
arte
thou
that
so
knockest
?
He
aunswered
,
I
am
a
Barefoot
Freer
.
Then
sayd
he
vnto
him
,
tary
a
lytle
vntyll
I
haue
spoken
with
S.
Frances
.
Whome
when
S.
Frances
with
all
his
brethren
sawe
,
he
sayd
vnto
the
porter
,
let
him
in
,
for
he
is
one
of
my
brethren
.
And
truly
the
prynt
of
the
woundes
of
S.
Frances
shone
as
(
a
podyng
in
a
lantern
)
bryght
as
v.
of
the
fayrest
sterres
in
the
element
.
Thesame
leafe
.
S.
Frances
beyng
in
the
wood
desyred
certeyn
thefes
to
come
&
eate
with
him
to
th
entent
he
myght
bryng
theim
to
penaunce
,
saiyng
,
brethren
thefes
,
come
and
eate
with
vs
,
for
we
are
brethren
,
and
he
conuerted
theim
.
The
C.
xxii
.
leafe
.
A
certeyn
Freer
deliuered
vnto
the
deuell
a
writyng
signed
with
his
awne
blood
,
because
he
should
conuey
a
woman
vnto
him
:
But
thorough
the
merites
of
the
blessed
Masse
yt
came
so
to
passe
that
the
deuell
let
fall
the
wrytyng
in
the
chalyce
of
remyssion
and
pardon
of
synnes
.
The
same
leafe
.
Blessed
S.
Frances
beyng
tempted
of
a
woman
,
he
stryped
him self
naked
and
ranne
into
the
snowe
and
made
him
a
wyfe
and
Children
of
snowe
.
The
C.
xivii
.
leafe
.
When
S.
Frances
came
from
Saynct
Iames
he
was
syck
,
and
desyred
to
eate
of
a
lytle
byrde
,
and
ymedyatly
an
Angell
appered
vnto
him
in
the
lykenes
of
a
horsman
&
brought
with
him
a
byrde
ready
dressed
saiyng
,
Thou
seruaunt
of
God
,
take
that
the
Lorde
hathe
sent
vnto
the
,
of
the
whiche
when
he
had
eaten
,
he
was
made
whole
.
The
Lxlix
.
leafe
.
Freer
Peter
doyng
many
myracles
when
he
was
dead
,
S.
Frances
sayd
vnto
him
,
Freer
Peter
,
thou
wast
all
the
dayes
of
thy
lyfe
obedyent
to
me
,
&
so
I
wyll
haue
the
to
be
now
thou
art
dead
and
therfor
now
I
will
not
that
thou
shalt
do
any
more
myracles
.
which
afterward
neuer
dyd
more
miracles
.
Consyder
here
I
besech
the
(
sayth
the
booke
)
gentle
reader
how
dere
&
precious
gloryous
Frances
was
with
Christ
,
whose
commaundment
the
dead
obeyed
&c.
The
heares
of
S.
Frances
beyng
cast
agaynst
a
stone
wall
threw
yt
doune
.
Christ
dyd
nothyng
but
he
dyd
yt
,
&
he
dyd
more
then
Christ
dyd
.
The
nayles
of
S.
Frances
dyd
put
away
temptacions
,
with
his
spyttle
he
restored
a
mayde
to
her
syght
,
the
water
that
he
wasshed
his
handes
&
fete
in
,
raysed
the
dead
to
lyfe
agayn
.
The
space
of
viij
.
dayes
a
greshopper
stode
with
him
in
oure
Ladyes
rome
,
or
as
our
Ladyes
deputye
,
and
beyng
called
again
he
flew
vpon
his
hed
,
&
then
beyng
lycenced
to
depart
,
he
went
awaye
.
A
nyghtyngale
song
a
whole
daye
with
him
by
turne
,
that
is
to
say
S.
Frances
one
verse
&
the
nightyngale
another
.
Like
as
Adam
not
obeiyng
god
,
all
creatures
began
to
rebell
:
So
S.
Frances
obeiyng
and
fullfillyng
the
commaundementes
of
God
,
all
creatures
began
to
do
him
seruyce
,
accordyng
to
the
scriptures
,
Thou
diddest
put
all
thynges
vnder
his
gouernaunce
,
&
thou
hast
set
him
ouer
all
thy
workes
,
and
he
may
truly
say
the
wordes
of
the
gospell
.
All
thinges
are
geuen
me
of
my
father
.
And
moreouer
,
whatsoeuer
saynt
Frances
had
delyght
or
pleasure
in
,
thesame
pleased
the
lord
God
.
Thesame
leafe
.
S.
Frances
on
a
tyme
beyng
in
feruent
prayer
for
the
synnes
of
the
people
,
an
Angell
appered
vnto
him
saiyng
,
Christ
&
oure
blessed
Lady
with
a
great
company
of
Angelles
are
in
the
church
lookyng
for
the
&c.
Who
commyng
into
the
Church
:
for
feare
&
reuerence
fell
on
his
face
.
Then
sayde
Christ
vnto
him
,
Frances
thou
and
thy
Brethren
are
wonderfull
carefull
for
the
soules
of
faythfull
people
,
therefor
aske
what
thou
wylt
for
their
comfort
&
yt
shal
be
graunted
the
,
for
thou
art
ordeyned
to
be
the
light
of
the
gentiles
.
And
he
laye
as
one
rapt
into
the
godhead
,
and
at
the
last
commyng
to
him selfe
he
sayde
,
Our
father
most
holyest
I
wretched
synner
beseche
the
,
forasmuche
as
yt
pleaseth
the
to
owe
such
fauour
to
mankynde
,
that
thou
wilt
graunt
indulgence
and
remission
of
all
and
synguler
the
synnes
as
well
generall
as
speciall
of
all
suche
people
as
shall
come
into
this
place
&c.
And
I
most
humbly
beseche
our
Lady
&
thy
Blessed
Mother
the
speciall
aduocatryce
for
mankynde
,
that
somuche
as
she
may
to
helpe
me
in
this
my
peticion
and
to
make
intercession
vnto
thy
moost
deuoute
and
excellent
maiestie
.
And
our
blessed
Lady
with
most
heauenly
humylite
forthwith
inclined
to
the
prayers
and
peticion
of
blessed
Frances
,
and
ymediatly
made
suplicacion
to
her
Sonne
saiyng
,
Most
high
and
almighty
God
,
I
most
humbly
beseche
thy
godhead
that
somuch
as
thy
maiestie
may
to
inclyne
&
graunt
to
the
prayer
&
petycion
of
thy
sernaunt
Frances
.
And
the
diuine
maiestie
of
God
spake
saiyng
,
It
is
very
greate
that
thou
hast
desyred
but
thou
arte
worthy
brother
S.
Frances
to
haue
greater
,
and
thou
shalt
haue
greater
,
and
I
do
admyt
and
graunt
thy
peticion
.
But
I
wyll
haue
the
to
go
vnto
my
vycar
to
whom
I
haue
geuen
power
to
bynde
&
lose
&c.
And
aske
of
him
on
my
behalfe
this
indulgence
and
Pardon
.
Twelue
of
S.
Frances
brethren
beyng
in
their
Celles
heard
all
these
thynges
,
but
beyng
stricken
with
feare
they
durst
not
enter
into
the
church
.
And
anone
Christ
with
a
great
multitude
of
Angelles
departed
into
Heauen
.
In
the
mornyng
S.
Frances
commaunded
his
brethren
that
they
should
speake
nothyng
of
these
thynges
.
Then
went
he
vnto
Pope
Honorius
and
declared
vnto
him
this
vision
,
and
he
obteyned
the
graunt
of
this
pardon
and
so
departed
.
When
Frances
was
departyng
,
the
Pope
sayd
,
O
Symple
person
whether
goest
thou
?
What
caryest
thou
with
the
for
a
testimony
of
this
pardon
.
Then
blessed
Frances
aunswered
,
thy
word
is
ynough
and
sufficient
for
me
,
if
yt
be
the
worke
of
God
,
he
can
manifest
and
declare
his
awne
worke
,
and
I
desyre
none
other
instrument
but
only
that
our
Lady
be
the
paper
,
and
Christ
the
notary
,
and
all
the
Angelles
witnesses
.
And
in
his
iourney
he
tolde
Freer
Massey
his
felow
the
vision
,
and
sayd
,
brother
Massey
I
say
to
the
on
goddes
behalfe
that
the
pardon
which
is
graunted
to
me
of
the
Pope
is
confirmed
in
heauen
.
The
Cardinalles
hearyng
of
this
graunt
,
reproued
&
rebuked
the
Pope
for
grauntyng
to
Frances
so
greate
pardon
saiyng
,
thou
wylt
bryng
the
indulgence
of
blessed
Peter
&
Paul
to
nothing
.
The
lord
Pope
aunswered
we
haue
geuen
and
graunted
it
to
him
,
yt
is
not
expedyent
to
destroye
that
is
made
.
But
forasmuch
as
Frances
neither
of
God
nor
yet
of
the
Pope
had
appoynted
any
determynate
day
when
this
pardon
should
begin
,
he
was
again
wonderfully
troubled
&
prayed
that
he
myght
se
the
vision
once
agayn
,
and
that
he
myght
be
certefyed
of
Christ
.
Wherfore
on
a
tyme
in
the
moneth
of
Iāuarij
about
mydnight
when
Blessed
Frances
was
in
prayer
,
the
deuell
came
vnto
him
&
sayde
,
Frances
why
wylt
thou
dye
before
thy
tyme
?
why
doest
thou
occupye
thy selfe
on
this
fassion
?
knowest
thou
not
that
slepe
is
more
meter
for
the
?
Thou
art
yong
and
slepe
shal
be
thy
health
,
and
I
haue
often
tolde
the
how
thou
shouldest
otherwise
do
thy
penaunce
for
synnes
,
and
not
so
streight
and
sore
as
thou
doest
To
what
purpose
doest
thou
bete
thy self
thus
?
And
blessed
Frances
ymedyatly
put
of
all
his
clothes
and
his
breches
and
striped
him self
stark
naked
,
and
he
went
out
of
his
Cel
&
passed
thorough
a
great
rough
hedge
and
entred
into
a
great
wyldernes
whiche
was
very
thorny
,
so
that
his
body
was
all
bloody
:
then
sayd
he
to
him self
,
yt
is
a
great
deale
better
that
I
should
thus
knowlege
the
passion
of
our
Lord
Iesu
Christ
,
then
obeye
vnto
deceitfull
flatterynges
.
And
sodeynly
there
was
in
the
wyldernes
a
great
light
,
which
appered
to
be
wonderous
full
of
gelyfloures
and
Roses
.
&
there
was
an
innumerable
company
of
Angelles
whiche
sayd
with
one
voyce
,
Blessed
Frances
come
hether
quyckly
,
The
Sauyour
and
his
Mother
are
in
the
Church
and
tary
for
the.
Then
blessed
Frances
sawe
him selfe
newly
appareled
,
but
howe
or
which
waye
yt
came
to
passe
he
could
not
tell
.
And
there
appered
vnto
him
a
waye
couered
all
with
sylke
,
by
the
which
he
went
to
the
Church
.
And
blessed
Frances
tooke
out
of
the
rosary
,
xij
.
red
roses
and
xij
.
whyte
,
and
he
came
foorth
with
to
the
Churche
,
and
vpon
the
altare
there
he
layd
the
roses
.
Then
he
sawe
our
Lorde
Iesu
Christ
standyng
,
and
oure
blessed
Lady
his
Mother
on
his
right
hand
with
a
great
multitude
of
Angelles
.
And
blessed
Frances
spake
saiyng
:
Our
most
holyest
Father
whiche
art
the
orderer
and
gouernour
of
heauen
&
earth
,
I
beseche
the
of
thy
great
mercy
that
thou
wilt
vouchesafe
to
ordeyn
and
appoynt
the
daye
that
the
pardon
whiche
thou
hast
graunted
shall
take
effect
&
that
thy
blessed
Mother
the
aduocatryce
of
mankynd
will
assist
herunto
.
To
whome
Christ
aunswered
,
I
will
that
yt
be
thesame
daye
in
the
whiche
blessed
Peter
was
deliuered
from
his
bondes
,
begynnyng
at
the
first
euensong
of
thesame
day
and
contynue
to
the
euensong
the
next
daye
folowyng
,
includyng
the
nyght
,
and
that
whosoeuer
commeth
thether
that
day
contryre
&
confessed
shal
be
pardoned
and
forgeuen
of
all
the
synnes
that
he
hath
done
from
the
daye
of
his
baptisme
to
the
day
of
his
entraunce
into
the
Churche
of
our
Lady
Porcyuncule
,
how
greuous
or
great
so
euer
their
synnes
be
.
And
blessed
Frances
sayde
,
Moost
holyest
Father
,
how
may
this
be
knowen
to
mankynde
that
they
may
beleue
?
And
our
Lorde
sayde
,
that
shall
God
prospere
and
help
thorough
his
Fauoure
and
Grace
.
Notwithstandyng
thou
shalt
go
vnto
Rome
to
my
Vyker
whome
I
haue
ordeyned
and
appoynted
&
to
whome
I
haue
geuen
power
to
bynde
and
lose
,
&
wyll
him
to
publishe
&
declare
this
pardon
with
asmuche
expedicion
as
he
shall
thynk
mete
.
Then
sayde
blessed
Frances
,
but
how
shall
thy
Vyker
credyt
me
,
paraduenture
he
wyll
not
beleue
me
wretched
synner
.
The
Lorde
sayd
to
him
,
blessed
Frances
,
take
with
the
certeyn
of
thy
brethren
for
wytnesses
thewhich
hear
all
these
thynges
,
&
also
take
with
the
these
red
and
whyte
roses
which
thou
gathered
est
in
the
moneth
of
Ianuarij
when
thou
wast
ponishing
of
thy
body
in
the
wyldernes
.
All
these
thynges
were
hearde
by
Freer
Peter
of
Cathany
,
Angell
of
Reato
,
Ruffine
Sophy
,
Freer
Massey
,
&c.
Then
blessed
saynct
Frances
tooke
of
the
roses
that
he
brought
iij.
red
and
iij.
whyte
,
in
the
honoure
of
the
most
holy
and
indiuisible
trinite
,
and
to
the
praise
of
god
&
our
blessed
Lady
.
And
then
the
Angelles
song
with
lowd
and
great
voyce
,
Te
deum
.
In
the
mornyng
blessed
Frances
tooke
his
felowes
,
saiyng
to
theim
,
let
vs
go
to
Rome
,
and
he
commaunded
theim
to
kepe
all
these
thynges
secret
.
And
when
he
entred
into
Rome
,
he
tooke
his
way
toward
the
Church
of
Saynct
Iohn
Lateranence
,
and
there
he
found
Pope
Honorius
the
successor
of
Innocent
,
and
the
Viker
of
oure
Lorde
Iesu
Christ
.
To
whome
S.
Frances
on
the
behalf
of
our
Lord
declared
all
the
thynges
aforsayde
,
&
of
thesame
bare
wytnes
theforsayd
brethren
and
the
roses
aboue
mencioned
.
And
Pope
Honorius
beholdyng
in
the
moneth
of
Ianuarij
roses
so
freshe
,
and
hauyng
so
quyck
a
sauour
and
colour
,
sayd
,
this
is
suerly
a
great
myracle
,
and
must
come
rather
of
God
then
of
man
,
&
we
knowe
that
their
testimony
is
true
.
Then
the
Pope
commaunded
that
Frances
and
his
felowes
should
haue
wherwith
to
refreshe
theim
selues
.
The
next
daye
after
,
blessed
Frances
came
agayn
to
the
pope
saiyng
:
Most
worthy
Vyker
of
Christ
,
fullfill
about
the
matter
aforsayd
,
the
wyll
of
the
kynge
of
heauen
and
his
Mother
.
And
beyng
asked
agayne
in
the
presence
of
the
Cardinalles
what
he
desyred
.
And
when
he
aunswered
the
forsayd
pardon
to
be
at
Lammas
or
the
day
that
saynt
Peter
was
losed
out
of
his
bondes
.
The
Pope
aunswered
,
Frances
,
that
which
thou
desirest
is
very
great
,
but
forasmuche
as
the
kynge
of
heauen
at
the
instaunce
of
the
most
blessed
Virgyn
his
Mother
hath
heard
thy
peticion
,
we
will
wryte
to
the
Bysshopes
of
Assisio
,
Perusino
,
Tuderino
,
Spolitano
,
Fulginati
,
Nucerino
and
Eugubino
,
that
they
shall
assemble
together
at
the
Churche
of
Portiuncule
the
first
day
of
August
,
and
there
they
shall
declare
the
pardon
in
such
wise
as
thou
shalt
desyre
to
haue
yt
.
And
so
blessed
Frances
and
his
felowes
receauing
the
Popes
letters
&
departed
.
And
blessed
Frances
sayde
vnto
the
Bysshopes
,
which
of
you
will
publishe
and
declare
this
pardon
.
When
the
Bisshopes
were
all
assembled
at
the
daye
appoynted
,
blessed
Frances
sayd
vnto
theim
,
yf
yt
please
you
,
though
I
be
vnworthy
I
wyll
saye
somewhat
in
the
presence
of
this
people
and
declare
vnto
theim
the
pardon
graunted
by
the
commaundment
of
the
kyng
of
heauen
,
obteyned
at
the
instance
of
the
blessed
Virgyn
and
Mother
of
Christ
,
and
you
are
commaunded
by
the
Pope
to
affirm
thesame
with
me
.
Then
blessed
Frances
preached
so
swetely
and
so
comfortably
,
that
he
semed
rather
to
haue
bene
an
Angeil
then
a
mortall
man
.
Then
he
declared
the
pardon
that
yt
auayled
from
the
Euensong
the
first
day
of
August
vntill
the
Euensong
on
the
second
day
of
the
same
moneth
aswell
by
nyght
as
by
daye
,
yerely
for
euer
.
The
Bysshopes
hearyng
blessed
Frances
saye
for
euer
,
they
were
angry
&
muche
offended
,
saiyng
to
Frances
,
The
Pope
hath
not
commaunded
vs
herin
to
folowe
thy
mynde
,
for
his
pleasoure
is
but
for
x.
yere
.
And
therfore
euery
Bisshop
by
him self
declared
vnto
the
people
that
they
must
vnderstand
the
wordes
of
Frances
of
this
pardon
to
indure
for
x.
yeres
and
no
lenger
.
Here
I
omyt
muche
folyshnes
whiche
I
am
wery
to
wryte
.
The
C.lxix
.
leafe
Blessed
Frances
sayd
,
after
vs
shall
come
Freers
that
wyll
buyld
theim
greate
houses
,
The
C.lxxv
.
leafe
.
Freer
Massey
purposyug
to
trye
the
humilite
and
mekenes
of
blessed
Frances
,
sayde
vnto
him
,
what
art
thou
?
what
art
thou
?
what
art
thou
?
what
art
thou
?
Blessed
Frances
aunswered
,
what
meanest
thou
,
and
Freer
Massey
sayd
,
for
all
the
world
semeth
to
ronne
after
the
,
and
all
desyer
to
se
,
heare
and
obey
the.
Thou
art
no
fayre
man
Thou
hast
neither
great
conning
nor
wisdom
.
Thou
art
no
noble
man
.
How
commeth
yt
then
that
all
the
worlde
dothe
thus
folow
the
?
Blessed
Frances
hearyng
this
,
reioysyng
wonderfully
in
spirite
,
and
holdyng
vp
his
face
to
heauen
,
stood
styll
a
great
space
his
mynde
beyng
directed
to
God
,
and
commyng
to
him selfe
agayne
,
he
made
lowe
curtesey
&
with
a
feruent
spirite
gaue
prayses
&
thankes
to
God
,
and
turned
him selfe
to
Freer
Massey
&
sayd
,
wilt
thou
know
what
I
am
?
wylt
thou
knowe
what
I
am
?
and
wylt
thou
well
vnderstand
what
I
am
,
and
why
all
the
worlde
foloweth
me
?
God
hathe
ordeyned
the
fooles
of
this
world
to
confound
the
wyse
,
and
I
am
a
wretched
synner
.
Then
Freer
Massey
knewe
that
blessed
Frances
was
grounded
in
very
humilitee
.
The
L.
lxxvi
.
leafe
.
Blessed
Frances
sayd
vnto
his
Brethren
,
that
they
should
not
Iudge
any
thynge
to
be
impossible
that
was
commaunded
theim
in
their
rule
:
For
if
he
had
commaunded
theim
to
do
thynges
aboue
their
strength
,
yet
holy
obedyence
neuer
lacked
strength
.
Once
a
certeyn
Freer
dysobeiyng
his
gouernour
,
he
commaunded
him
to
put
of
all
his
clothes
&
his
very
breches
&
so
to
stand
naked
before
him
,
which
the
Freer
dyd
.
Then
he
commaunded
him
to
dyg
a
graue
or
a
pyt
,
which
also
he
dyd
.
Then
he
commaunded
him
to
go
into
the
graue
,
The
same
leafe
.
Two
yong
men
besought
S.
Frances
to
admyt
theim
into
the
order
:
but
he
myndyng
to
proue
first
their
obedyence
,
led
theim
into
a
garden
saiyng
vnto
theim
,
come
,
let
vs
set
coles
or
colewortes
,
and
as
ye
se
me
set
theim
,
so
looke
that
you
do
.
Then
blessed
Frances
set
the
rotes
vpward
&
the
leaues
douneward
.
One
of
theim
dyd
in
all
thinges
lyke
vnto
blessed
Frances
,
¶
Here
an
end
,
for
I
wyll
trouble
you
no
lenger
with
this
stuffe
,
though
the
booke
out
of
which
this
is
taken
conteyneth
much
more
.