. The English Dominicans. asHubert de Burgh and Peter des Roches, as Simon de Montfortand Piers Gaveston, as Richard II and Henry IV, turned tothem for counsel and for the ghostly direction of their de Burgh, by will, they inherited Whitehall, from deMontfort the Priory of Leicester, from Gavestons memorythe richest friary in England, their noviciate house at KingsLangley. Edward II loved them and confessed to them;while Thomas of Lancaster, in revolt against Edward, whenbeheaded by royal orders after the battle of Boroughbridge,had his last hours comforted by a Blackfriar. Peter de
. The English Dominicans. asHubert de Burgh and Peter des Roches, as Simon de Montfortand Piers Gaveston, as Richard II and Henry IV, turned tothem for counsel and for the ghostly direction of their de Burgh, by will, they inherited Whitehall, from deMontfort the Priory of Leicester, from Gavestons memorythe richest friary in England, their noviciate house at KingsLangley. Edward II loved them and confessed to them;while Thomas of Lancaster, in revolt against Edward, whenbeheaded by royal orders after the battle of Boroughbridge,had his last hours comforted by a Blackfriar. Peter des Rochesof Winchester, a scandalous prelate of foreign birth andsympathies, was equalled, indeed, surpassed, in devotion tothe Order by Robert Grosseteste, learned, pious, English, thefamous professor of Oxford and Bishop of Lincoln. Henry IIIand his finer son and successor, Edward I, were the firstPlantagenets when the Dominicans came, and till that greatestof English royal houses fell in the murder of their last repre-. [To face p. ITbe IRestoration 215 sentative, it was In the Order of S. Dominic that it found itsspiritual help. The house of Lancaster, crafty, unstable,usurping-, turned to Carmelites and Franciscans, the house ofYork and Tudor to the secular priesthood; but the wildest,fiercest, noblest of all the kings since the Normans, found inthe brethren of S. Thomas Aquinas their guides, philosophers,and friends. Following the design of their founder, the first Englishpriory was established by the friars at Oxford, where theirarrival was immediately followed by the opening- of schoolsfor philosophy and theology. Here by opposition they stimu-lated Walter of Merton to adopt the colleg-e system, and thusto introduce it to the University, and were of such influencethat for a whole g-eneration all public and official disputationsand acts were carried on within their walls. Then when theUniversity learnt naturally to resent this and to desire thatthese should be transferred
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