[596] Burney, MS. 325, quoted above, p. 56, n. 2. Cf. Twyne, MS. IV, 173, sermon of N. Hereford in 1382: ‘Cum eorum limitatores satis mendicaverint pro sua communitate, statim mendicant iterum pro seipsis, et sic falsi pravi monstrant (se) esse apostatas et frangunt regulam,’ &c.
[597] Opera Ined. p. 16.
[598] Familiares homines et pauperes, prob. students or the common people (see ibid. Pref. xx): the word translated ‘friends’ above is amici. Cf. the frequent charges against the friars that they ‘devour poore men’s almes in wast, and feasting of Lordes and great men.’ Wiclif, Two Short Treatises, &c., p. 31; Polit. Poems and Songs, &c., II, p. 28; Peacock, Repressor, 550 (R.S.).
[599] Bull of Martin IV, Kal. Feb. Ao 2, recited and confirmed by Martin V, Kal. Nov. Ao 10. John XXII by his Bull ‘Ad Conditorem’ forbade the Franciscans to use the Bull of Martin IV without special license of the Pope; Martin V allowed them to use it ‘freely and lawfully.’
[600] Wadding, X, 130.
[601] Twyne, MS. XXIII, f. 266 (Oxf. City Archives): printed in Appendix B.
[602] He is not called ‘frater,’ but the omission of this word before ‘minor’ is not infrequent.
[603] e.g. Placita de Scaccario, 3 Hen. VII, m. 35; Acta Cur. Canc.
, fol. 262 b.