[10.] Præcipio firmiter per obedientiam fratribus universis quod ubicunque sunt, non audeant petere aliquam litteram in Curia Romana. Test. B. Fr.
[11.] A comparison with the Bullary of the Preaching Friars is especially instructive: from their first chapter at Notre Dame de Prouille, in 1216, they are about fifteen; we find there at this time absolutely nothing that can be compared to the Franciscan movement, which was already stirring up all Italy. But while the first bull in favor of the Franciscans bears the date of June 11, 1219, and the approbation properly so called that of November 29, 1223, we find Honorius already in the end of 1216 lavishing marks of affection upon the Dominicans; December 22, 1216, Religiosam vitam. Cf. Pressuti, I regesti, del Pontefice Onorio III., Roma, 1884, t. i., no. 175; same date; Nos attendentes, ibid., no. 176; January 21, 1217, gratiarum omnium, ib., no. 243. Vide 284, 1039, 1156, 1208. It is needless to continue this enumeration. Very much the same could be done for the other Orders; whence the conclusion that if the Brothers Minor alone are forgotten in this shower of favors, it is because they decidedly wished to be. It must be admitted that immediately upon Francis's death they made up for lost time.
[12.] The authenticity of this passage is put beyond doubt by Ubertino di Casal's citation. Archiv., iii., p. 53. Cf. Spec., 30a; Conform., 111b, 1; 118b, 1; Ubertino, Arbor vitæ cruc., iii., 3.
[13.] Burchardi chronicon ann. 1217, loc. cit., p. 377. See also the bulls indicated by Potthast, 5575, 5585-92.
[14.] Before 1217 the office of minister virtually existed, though its definitive institution dates only from 1217. Brother Bernardo in his mission to Bologna, for example (1212?), certainly held in some sort the office of minister.
[15.] Imprisoned by order of Elias, he died in consequence of blows given him one day when he was taking the air outside of his prison. Tribul., 24a.
[16.] Giord., 5 and 6; 3 Soc., 62.
[17.] Of Giovanni di Parma, Clareno, Anthony of Padua, etc.
[18.] Mark of Lisbon, t. i., p. 82. Cf. p. 79, t. ii., p. 86, Glassberger ann., 1217. An. fr., ii., pp. 9 ff.; Chron xxiv. gen., MS. of Assisi, no. 328, fo 2b.
[19.] Spec., 44a.; Conform., 119a, 2; 135a; 181b, 1; 1 Cel., 74 and 75.