. The English Dominicans. ght by dispensing the most hopeless andseparating the most zealous to bring back forgotten fervour,the real facts of the case were the exact opposite, for the Pro-vince had been ruled by a succession of very strong men,whose regime was if anything too severe, and who loathedexemptions and dispensations as tending to break up thatunity of discipline and life which foreign ways and foreigndistinctions had alone been able to trouble. The rumours of this in 1392^ reached the ears of PopeBoniface IX, who commanded the English Dominicans tobehave to the Master-General with
. The English Dominicans. ght by dispensing the most hopeless andseparating the most zealous to bring back forgotten fervour,the real facts of the case were the exact opposite, for the Pro-vince had been ruled by a succession of very strong men,whose regime was if anything too severe, and who loathedexemptions and dispensations as tending to break up thatunity of discipline and life which foreign ways and foreigndistinctions had alone been able to trouble. The rumours of this in 1392^ reached the ears of PopeBoniface IX, who commanded the English Dominicans tobehave to the Master-General with the same submission asthe friars of other nations behaved; and Raymund sailedalong, obstinately following his own ideas. In 1393^ heremoved the Provincial, Friar Seward, appointed as his vicarRobert Humbleton, with Thomas Palmer as head of theVisitation of London and the Marches, and William Bagthorpe ^ Registrum B. Raymundi^ Add. MSS., 6716. 2 Ibid. ^ Ibid. * Ibid. * Madox, Formulare^ p. 425. * Mortier, vol. iii, p. w Q C/5 J W en 0 o ^ 0 X in w hJ Q J < /I C/5 0 C^ W t/j O -; E ffi u y, <f J u H i< Cu S < o K p U [To face p. 14^ ©bservance 145 as head of the Visitation of Cambridge and York. On22 November of the same year Palmer was elected Provincialat the Eng-lish Chapter and confirmed in office by the Master-General.^ But the tumult g-rew the more fiercely, while disci-pline, the cause of the whole dispute, must have suffered fromthe strained purpose of the opposed authorities. On 15 Octoberof the same year Pope Boniface IX addressed a bull to theMaster-General, detailing the complaints of King Richard IIand others, especially that certain Dominicans nominated aspapal chaplains had abused their powers and privileges byrefusing to come to choir for Divine Office.^ On this accountthe Pope forbids any of his chaplains to be absent from choireither by day or night, with the sole exception of NicholasSummerton, who had laboured, and was still labouring, inthe
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