[992] Stated to have been composed at the request of Episcopus Maglonensis, i.e. Magalona, Narbonne.
[993] Mentioned again by Tanner, as a different work under the title, De ordinatione universali.
[994] i.e. Breviloq. de IV virtutibus.
[995] The name of the author is given in a hand considerably later than the MS.
[996] Mémoires de l’Académie des inscriptions, t. XXX, pp. 45-55: Peter was a Benedictine who lived and wrote at Avignon from 1320 to 1340. M. Hauréau has no doubt made out his case.
[997] Another handbook for confessors is occasionally found bound up with works of John Wallensis. See MSS. St. Omer 622, § 6, Tract. de instructione confessorum, and Charleville 113, § 2, Libellus de modo audiendi confessiones. Inc.: ‘Simpliciores et minus expertos confessores.’ It is by John Lector of Freiburg: MS. Mazarine 1322. Hist. Litt. xxv. 269.
[998] There is an error in Tanner’s extracts from Bury (p. xxxiii): ‘Quoniam misericordia’ given as the incipit of De disciplina belongs to the preceding work, Compendiloquium. Cf. Bale, MS. Seld. supra 64, fol. 83; Tanner, Bibl. 435.
[999] Royal MS. 3 B. XII (sec. xv): ‘Liber magistri Thome Gude, i.e. Boni, Doctoris sacre Theologie Oxonie et Ordinis Minorum, vocati Dockyng, eo quod natus fuit in villa vocata Dockyng.’
[1000] Mon. Franc. I, 359-360: the letter mentions ‘the irrevocable intention of Friar R. of Cornwall.’
[1001] Or 1265? See notices of H. of Brisingham and W. of Heddele.