Est l’ordre del tot defendu
Qe jà nul ne soit rescu.”
As at the Abbey of Sempringham, the Order is to receive both men and women; but whereas at Sempringham there are walls and ditches to separate the Brethren from the Sisters, in this Order there is to be no wall or ditch or anything to separate them. Three times a day, at least, they are to eat, and if they do it in company the Order will be none the worse.
From Beverley they are to take the custom of eating and drinking well at dinner, at supper, and at collation; and after collation every one is to have a piece of candle as long as from the elbow to the finger ends; and to go on drinking so long as the candle lasts.
From the Hospitallers they will take their long and sweeping robes.
From the Canons they will take the custom of eating meat three times a week, and if on Fast Days they find themselves without fish, then they are to eat whatever is in the larder.
From the Black Monks (the Benedictines) they are to borrow the habit of getting drunk every day.
KNIGHTS OF THE HOLY GHOST EMBARKING FOR THE CRUSADES
After a miniature from the “Statutes of the Order of the Holy Ghost” at Naples. MS. of the fourteenth century in the Louvre. From Lacroix’ Military and Religious Life in the Middle Ages.