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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 July 2012
St. Francis of Assise instituted, as we are told by Hospinian, three different classes of Religion. The first, which was the strictest and most perfect order, and of which he himself was a member, was the Fratres Minores. The second, consisting of Sisters, was the poor Clares; and the third was the Poenitentes; or, as they are called by Anthony a Wood, Poenitentiarii. These last had their beginning A. D. 1221, when one Lucius was the first Brother. This account, however, does not at all accord with that which is given by John Bale, on the authority of Thomas Eccleston. He says, the order commenced in Provence, A. D. 1245, when the General Council of Lyons was sitting, by means of an expelled Novice; which is very inconsistent with St. Francis's being the founder of it, since he died A. D. 1226. Of these two different accounts of the rise of this Fraternity it may perhaps be no easy matter to determine which is the truest. I incline however to the latter, as Eccleston was a Franciscan, and flourished so soon after the time. Yet one may justly wonder at the Rev. Mr. Tanner, for saying he could find no account of the original of this Order. But be this as it will, the Order was confirmed by Pope Nicholas IV, according to Hospinian, who began to sit A. D. 1288, and died 1299.
page 125 note [a] Anth. a Wood, Hist. et Antiq. Lib. I. p. 71.
page 125 note [b] Bale's Append. II. chap. 52. cent. 4.
page 125 note [c] Eccleston wrote a tract, A.D. 1269, Tanner in Bibliotheca.
page 125 note [d] Praef. to the Notitia, p. xxiii.
page 126 note [e] Walsingham, p. 45.
page 126 note [f] Tanner, p. 316.
page 126 note [g] P. 49. 285. alibi.
page 126 note [h] Newcourt's Repertorium, p. 516.
page 126 note [i] Weever, p. 146.
page 126 note [k] Matth. Paris.
page 126 note [l] Tanner, Praef. ad Notitiam.
page 126 note [m] Weever.
page 126 note [n] Raymundus de Capua, apud Du Fresne, v. Sacci.
page 127 note [o] Polyd. Vergil de Inventione, VII. c. 4. Newcourt.
page 127 note [p] Tanner, p. 245.
page 127 note [q] Tanner, p. 364.
page 127 note [r] Du Fresne, in Gloss. Sacci. Walsingham, p. 45.
page 127 note [s] Hospinian, p. 427, citing Volaterranus.
page 127 note [t] Cave in Sace. xiv. p. 60.
page 128 note [u] Newcourt, p. 516. Tanner, p. 316.
page 129 note [x] Anth. a Wood, Hist. & Antiq. I. p. 75.
page 129 note [y] Tanner, p. 316. from Stowe.
page 129 note [z] Weever says, 5th; malè.
page 129 note [a] Tanner, from Stowe.
page 130 note [b] Newcourt, from Stowe.
page 130 note [c] Pref. p. xxiii.
page 130 note [d] Archiv. Civit. Canterb.
page 130 note [e] Append. to Antiq. Canterb. p. 4. What Mr. Somner has there printed does not contain the whole proceedings; and it might be worth while to consult the proper office for the particular relating to this house.
page 131 note [f] Thorn's Chron. inter X scriptores, col. 2148.
page 131 note [g] Archiv. Civit. Cantuar.