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l acies, and in sein sor privileges Whichbrought them into conflict With the olero and
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120 THE FRIA majority of the communities seem to have been Very p r, sinoe in the Burinenin and fi inincenturies many of them had to seli inela books in order ω live. Undoubtedly the great plaguehad much to do With the deterioration os the Order. The Friars, greatly reduced in numberand unable to maintain regular observance menin the ho es Where the younger membere Were
trained, tost muta of their religious servo . But at the time of the dissolution they Hready shoWed signa os reVivat, und it seems probabis that tho greater part of the prorince Would have been incorporalia in the observant Resorinhad the communities not been dispersed. Mother potnt to be noted a ut the Engliin Friam Was thela remissile intrat for knowledge. The greatest of the Franciscan Schoolmen, With the exception of St. Bonmentum, came stom England. Alexander of Hales, Adam de Marisco, Mymo a Fmerinam,
Ridhard indviston, Duns Scotus, miliam Oocam
a testimony to the scholastio learning of the English Friam; inust in natural solance Roger
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Bacon and Thomas Bungay Were predumors of the modern experimentia method. So Well
servedly styled at this time Emporium optimarum Disciplinarum. '' Not only did theyenkindie a neW spirit of learning in the universi , but they seem to have largeb innuencedits development in other WVA. The est lishment of the Friars' sinoess h ad probably mutato do mith the evolution of the collegiate System at Oxs d. Certain it is that BalliolCollege o es ita existende to the invice ovenis a Franciscan Friar to the widow of SirJAn de Balliol; and the launder of Merion mas an intimate Mend of Adam de Marisco ne Engliis Friam Were, more er, grent oes
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122 ΤΗΕ FRIAM lectora os books. One of the inarges bro M
ta 1257, Was that in the faculties of Ares, Theology, Canon LaW, and , RS many RMere, Medioine and Civit Lam, Marcely a useful bookis in be Bund in the marist, but ali are bought up by the Friars, so that in mery coment is agresti and nobis library, and everyone of themino has a recognised position in the universities and such are innumerableὶ has also a nobie
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to them to consession, that in 1300 the Minister- Provineial sought the Bishop's licende sor
isngue. Stili, in his blaterest denunciations os them, Melis Was unable to bring against themany definite inarge of immorality. It was probably,' says Professor Litue, 'ine glaringoontrast bemeen the losty clatas of the Friam and their actuat Ese, rather inan any inferiori in their morali as compared With the secular
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124TΗΕ FRIABS primis, inita ex sed them to the bitterest
denunciations and inunts of the reformers. Τ mendicandi Were far more in sympathy Withthe mor than Were the in Wed monis, undpossessed sar more than the parish priesis theconfidenoe of the people. molis recognised thissaei and lamentin it. λ the dissolution the observant FHMS Were among the most strenuous opponents of the Mujs poli . Trus to the spirit of their Order, they protested strongly against the divome pro-Medings. M a result, many of them Were castinio prison, and the Μinister-Provinciai, JobnForest, Was burned in death. ne rest Were dispersed. of the tres observant Friars, the
command of St. Francis himself, came to an
In the time of mry Ι. the Friam returned toestabilis canonicia communities, but only sora hilo. Under Eligabeth they Were again dis-
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munities. The fini Franciscan communi undertae neW order of things Was formed at Pantasaph in North Wales in 1852. Sinee that date theriiars have inoreased in number, so that at present they hwe no less than fifteen houses in England and one in Scottand. As of old, most of these communities ars situ ed in themorest pares of Our large χ-S. So it is that the Friars are onoe agata in
the land. They Wear the fame habit to-day astheir brethren os old; they observe the fame Rule; they puraue the fame ideat; they have the fame mission. And the history of this second coming of the Friare, is ever it is Wruten, Will have a strining resemblance to the histoxy of the fidit coming, narrated in the
Doniose of Thomas in Eccleston. In this
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that the Franciscan m ement Was not a mereboanescent phenomenon in history, but a formative influenoe in the history of Christendom. In
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128TΗΕ FRIARS SL Francis os Assisi We have a classicia present-ment of Christian life and character. But, RS Ws have alaeady remarhed, M. Francis cannot be rightly underctood a re hom his Order or m that logitimate developinent of his ideasto Which the Order Witnesses. Within the sphereos iis proper developinent, the Order is the historical extension of the Mint's personali . Ηenoe, they Who Would appreciate the Mintinust appreciate the Friars.