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At Canterbury last month celebrations wars held to mark the sovanth centenary at the coming of the Franciscans into Enguand-an event of first importance to social as to Church history.

It is easy to be unfair about the monks and friars and nuus who took so active.

share in the averyday life of the Middle Ages. There has survived for the amuse ment of the unsympathetic aquantity of Mir H. Bickerton evidence showing how often and with Mrs R. J.Birbeck what gross crudity these holy men and Dr.& Mrs W. E. Briggs women sinned against their vows. But Mr A. Brooks if the way of their traducer is not hard, Mr A. Brostedt neither is that of their defondant. TheMr&Mr C. B. apostles of the ridiculous modern fad which regards the Middle Ages as a post-r AW. Graham script to the Golden Age can also glut themselves with evidence after their own. Mr. C. Bardin hearts. One can, in fact, find grounds Mrs. W. Chant with as little effort for snoering with Mr. G. Charle Anatole France as for cheering with Mr. Mr J. E. Coryn

Mr 8. Cohn Chesterton. Some of the things, for in- stance, related of the pious founder of the great rival mendicant order to the Franciscans have a vigorous and attrac tive simplicity virtue about them which must thrill even the pagan. And then one reads of the same saint, being inter- rupted at bis sermonising by a sparrow. and recognising the devil concealed in the bird. placking it alive amid much laughter from the Brothers and Sisters and awful shrieks of the sparrow."

Such savage contrasts must be in our minds when we think about the arrival on September 10th. 1994 of the first Franciscans at Dover. Nine of them fanded, of whom only three appear to have been English. But they were the forerunners of an army that was to be quartered in all corners of the island and only to be ejected at the Reforma tion. While they remained they made the English province the most glorious of the Franciscau order. Within a gene ration their numbers had swelled vastly, and they had been joined by friars of other orders. by Domincans," Domini canes, watchdogs of the Lord, in black maatles and white babita, by Cormelites in brown and white, by Austin Friars, Red Friars, and Crossed Friars. They were active in helping with parish work, especially in the slums of the growing cities. They relieved, parish priests in the pulpit, and made a speciality of itinerant preaching missions. They threw themselves finely into the intellectual life which made the late thirteenth century the zenith of medievalism. Roger Bacon, Dans Scotus, Alexander Halles, and William of Ockham were English Fran- ciscans. The order had much to do with the founding of Halliol.

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„Such many-sided energy undertaken by men vowed to model themselves on the life of Christ was, inevitably a difficult business, How wore they to support themselves! Their founder had forbid- den them to own property or to handle They were to have one gown money". with a cowl, and, if they liked, a second gown without a cowl, and they must wear shoes only of compelled by neces siky Yet thy were not to be censorious of more worldly folk. St. Francis him- self (who was still alive when his first followers reached Canterbury) had writ ten warn and exhort them lest they despise or judgemen whom they shall see clad in soft garments and in colours. using delicate food and drink; but cach one shall rather judge and despise him. self." Some were able to observe these Miss Brennan. rules and at the same time to do their Col. C. Bussell Browa religious and educational work. But Mish P. W. Brown poverty and social influence do not easily 3.8. Bustaril go hand in hand. and an order without Mr. 11. R. Cleland endowments is beset with many templą

Air J. R. Collis tions. Often the Friars would be lent n

Mine M.. Cooper home by some charitable layman. But here Mr I, EL Cormack friction could not be avoided, Wu learn fr

W. Dixon of benefactors who repented of their Lt. Col. B. A. Dobbin beneficence, and who were not always so fr E. O. Duncan sound at heart as was a ceçinin nobleman Mr & Mrs J. Duncan at Northampton.

H. having stationed Mr W. E. Dye himself at the gate to watch the ejection Mrs Somers Ellis of the frines, seeing their simplicity and humility and being pricked by diving Mr & Mr W. A inspiration, burst into tears" and begged Capt.& Mra D. Fittes them to take pity on him and return, Mr & Mrs S. FitzRoy which they did. Again gifts-such as Mr A. Forbes the 1000 herrings given is 1260 at Col. Mr B. L. W. Foster chester-were often a joy to the donor MF. F.P. Franklin as well as to the recipients. But as iba Lt. G. C. Frederick umbers of the friars grew the genero.-Mr & Mrs W. D. sity of laymen did not quite keep juce. One may go to Chaucer or to Piers Plow Mr & Mrs. M. Gordon man for the less pleasing side of the men. Mr & Mrs Geo. W. dicancy of the Franciscans. "The wheels

Grey of God's chariot," it was argued by their Mr & Mrs B. A. Bale enemies, required far too much oil.

As preachers, too they did not lack critics. Wrath, so Fiers Plowman, says) was once a preaching friar. But to judge from such records as have come down. they must have often impressed their con gregations by a revivalist vigour.: Franciscan used to preach in the oper hir' from a wooden belfry wherever" he went, with a pennant on it to show which way, the wind blew, so that his hearers could get to windward. His denuncia- tions-of" woman's extravagance once led a man in the crowd to object that he, for one, did not dare to take away his wife's finery lest she should buy other Ginery twice as expensive. Whereupon, the preacher replied, "Come, man, taka heart of grace, hast thou not a sword by thy side Pluck up, thy courage, take heart and tear the stuff from her head, evan though thou tear away a hair or twain therewithal." It was the same friar whoso denunciation of vice caused aguilty woman to die as she listened to him. She was revived, and told the con gregation that of the 50,000 souls who had died at the same moment as she one had been found worthy of heaven, three of purgatory, and 4503 of hell fire. After receiving the Last Sacrament she died again, this time until the Rasur tragically poorer. That the movement Ruch stories prove the hollowness of laid itself open to attack by Jaymen, by the idyllic legend of the Middle Ages.

monks, and by parish clergy in its own The Franciscans when they came to Engaiga that it was aiming high that it was time and by sceptics in our time is a land were not merely adding a quaint, live and healthy enough to take and not delightful feature to a Pre-Raphaelite

always to escape fearful risks-Manchess (Continued at foot of next column,) : ter Guardian.

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Miss M. B. Hall

Mr J. Hancock

Mr J. B. Hawker

Mr & Mrs W. J.

Hawker Mr G, M, Hemsworth

Air T W. Hornby

One Mr H. Howell

Mr & Mrs C. J. Manolo

Mr. J. B. Thomson Mre C. Thwaites Miss Thwaites Mr AW. Tickle Lt. Col. & Mrs H.

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Capt. A. E. Watts Hughes Miss. O. Willmott Miss O. C. Janičina" Mr W. W. Jordan Mr M. F. Key

Mr B. L. Beton Wintor Mr & Mrs F, D. Wood Mr G. C.. Warzall

tapestry, They were part of a violent civilisation, extreme in its tenderness as in its harshness, giving rein to passions and barbaric deeds and then rising to heights of devotion in a manner un familiar to later, more repressed, ages. Their founder's enreer makes one in love with humanity; even the orders of the archangels, one feels, cannot produce such glorious Bgures The attempt of his followers to imitate him not as individ- wals but as an organised body in cen- turies such as we have described could only lead to a swift oscillation between well worth making, for without it the success and shams. It was an adventure intellectual as well as the spiritual side of the Middle Ages would have been,

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