Identifier: englishdominic00jarr (find matches)
Title: The English Dominicans
Year: 1921 (1920s)
Authors: Jarrett, Bede, 1881-1934
Subjects: Dominicans
Publisher: London : Burns, Oates and Washbourne
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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heads the roll, and Friar John almost ends it. In 1494 ¹⁰ there
was a famous conspiracy that goes under the name of its
leader. Sir William Stanley. Among the leading members of
it, Hall in his Chronicle notes: "Certain priests and religious
men as Sir William Rochford, doctor of divinity, and Sir
Thomas Poynes, both Friars of S. Dominicks Order." While
the London Chronicle under date of the same year states that
"the 29th day of January was kept at the Guildhall an oyer
determiner which lasted iij days where . . . were adjudged
to be drawn, hanged, heded, and quartered iij spiritualmen,
that is to say, the Dean of Pauls', the Provincial of the

¹ P.R.O. R. P., 48 Hen. Ill, m. 17.
² Ibid., 41 Hen. III, War. and Leic.
³ Ibid., 49 Hen. III, m. 9.
⁴ Ibid., 6 Edw. I, m. 11.
⁵ P.R.O. R. Cart, et P. apud Cales, 21 Edw. III, m. 22.
⁶ P.R.O. R. P., 7 Edw. I, m. 9.
⁷ Ibid., II Edw. II, p. I, m. 6.
⁸ Ibid., I Edw. III, p. 2, m. 24.
⁹ P.R.O. Durham Chancery Rolls, No. 49 (Bp. Booth), m. 4.
¹⁰ B.M. Cotton MSS., Vitellius A, vol. xvi, fol. 152.

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THE CLOISTERS: DOMINICAN PRIORY, BRISTOL
[To face p. 158

OBSERVANCE 139
Blackfriars, a noble divine and famous preacher, and the
Prior of a house of the Blackfriars called Lang-
ley." Hall
adds further that the priests were pardoned. So frequent
became these interventions and so successful, in favour of
outlaws, murderers, and Jews (the last of which brought them
to starvation in one place as their defence of these hapless
folk was locally unpopular), that at last the Master-General
was moved to indignation and solemnly forbade in 1398¹ any
attempts of the English friars to obtain favours for criminals.
And certainly after that date no other cases occur.
It will, however, be seen that on the whole the friars were
not unworthy of their high calling. Right at the beginnin
of the Black Death we find the city of London asking for
Dominicans to be its official guides in its spiritual life. A
petition still remains, dated 2 April 1350,² which alludes to
the ravages made in the city by the plague. So many of the
citizens had perished, and so many of the priests had been

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