Image: The English Dominicans (1921) (14781952014)

Description: Identifier: englishdominic00jarr (find matches) Title: The English Dominicans Year: 1921 (1920s) Authors: Jarrett, Bede, 1881-1934 Subjects: Dominicans Publisher: London : Burns, Oates and Washbourne Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto View Book Page: Book Viewer About This Book: Catalog Entry View All Images: All Images From Book Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book. Text Appearing Before Image: heads the roll, and Friar John almost ends it. In 1494 10 there was a famous conspiracy that goes under the name of its leader. Sir William Stanley. Among the leading members of it, Hall in his Chronicle notes: "Certain priests and religious men as Sir William Rochford, doctor of divinity, and Sir Thomas Poynes, both Friars of S. Dominicks Order." While the London Chronicle under date of the same year states that "the 29th day of January was kept at the Guildhall an oyer determiner which lasted iij days where . . . were adjudged to be drawn, hanged, heded, and quartered iij spiritualmen, that is to say, the Dean of Pauls', the Provincial of the 1 P.R.O. R. P., 48 Hen. Ill, m. 17. 2 Ibid., 41 Hen. III, War. and Leic. 3 Ibid., 49 Hen. III, m. 9. 4 Ibid., 6 Edw. I, m. 11. 5 P.R.O. R. Cart, et P. apud Cales, 21 Edw. III, m. 22. 6 P.R.O. R. P., 7 Edw. I, m. 9. 7 Ibid., II Edw. II, p. I, m. 6. 8 Ibid., I Edw. III, p. 2, m. 24. 9 P.R.O. Durham Chancery Rolls, No. 49 (Bp. Booth), m. 4. 10 B.M. Cotton MSS., Vitellius A, vol. xvi, fol. 152. Text Appearing After Image: THE CLOISTERS: DOMINICAN PRIORY, BRISTOL [To face p. 158 OBSERVANCE 139 Blackfriars, a noble divine and famous preacher, and the Prior of a house of the Blackfriars called Lang- ley." Hall adds further that the priests were pardoned. So frequent became these interventions and so successful, in favour of outlaws, murderers, and Jews (the last of which brought them to starvation in one place as their defence of these hapless folk was locally unpopular), that at last the Master-General was moved to indignation and solemnly forbade in 13981 any attempts of the English friars to obtain favours for criminals. And certainly after that date no other cases occur. It will, however, be seen that on the whole the friars were not unworthy of their high calling. Right at the beginnin of the Black Death we find the city of London asking for Dominicans to be its official guides in its spiritual life. A petition still remains, dated 2 April 1350,2 which alludes to the ravages made in the city by the plague. So many of the citizens had perished, and so many of the priests had been Note About Images Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work.
Title: The English Dominicans (1921) (14781952014)
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