. The English Dominicans. Friar John almost ends it. In 1494 ^° therewas a famous conspiracy that goes under the name of itsleader. Sir William Stanley. Among the leading members ofit, Hall in his Chronicle notes: Certain priests and religiousmen as Sir William Rochford, doctor of divinity, and SirThomas Poynes, both Friars of S. Dominicks Order. Whilethe London Chronicle under date of the same year states thatthe 29th day of January was kept at the Guildhall an oyerdeterminer which lasted iij days where . . were adjudgedto be drawn, hanged, heded, and quartered iij spiritualmen,that is to say
. The English Dominicans. Friar John almost ends it. In 1494 ^° therewas a famous conspiracy that goes under the name of itsleader. Sir William Stanley. Among the leading members ofit, Hall in his Chronicle notes: Certain priests and religiousmen as Sir William Rochford, doctor of divinity, and SirThomas Poynes, both Friars of S. Dominicks Order. Whilethe London Chronicle under date of the same year states thatthe 29th day of January was kept at the Guildhall an oyerdeterminer which lasted iij days where . . were adjudgedto be drawn, hanged, heded, and quartered iij spiritualmen,that is to say, the Dean of Pauls, the Provincial of the R. P., 48 Hen. Ill, m. 17.^ Ibid., 41 Hen. HI, War. and Leic.^ Ibid., 49 Hen. HI, m. 9.^ Ibid., 6 Edw. I, m. 11. R. Cart, et P. apud Cales, 21 Edw. HI, m. 22.« R. P.,J Edw. I, m. 9.^ Ibid., II Edw. II, p. I, m. 6.^ Ibid., I Edw. Ill, p. 2, m. 24. ^ Durham Chancery Rolls, No. 49 (Bp. Booth), m. 4.^ Cotton MSS., Vitellius A, vol. xvi, fol. [To face p. j5!:J ©bsevpance 139 Blackfriars, a noble divine and famous preacher, and thePrior of a house of the Blackfriars called Lang-ley. Halladds further that the priests were pardoned. So frequentbecame these interventions and so successful, in favour ofoutlaws, murderers, and Jews (the last of which brought themto starvation in one place as their defence of these haplessfolk was locally unpopular), that at last the Master-Generalwas moved to indignation and solemnly forbade in 1398^ anyattempts of the English friars to obtain favours for certainly after that date no other cases occur. It will, however, be seen that on the whole the friars werenot unworthy of their high calling. Right at the beginningof the Black Death we find the city of London asking forDominicans to be its official guides in its spiritual life. Apetition still remains, dated 2 April 1350,^ which alludes tothe ravages made in the city by the plague. So many of thecitizens
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