[1] [2] [3] Yée shall vnderstand, that in the Lent season, the archbishop of Messina came as legat from the pope hither into England,A legat from Rome. Matth. Paris. with letters of procuration, to demand and receiue, and also with power, to punish such as should denie and séeme to resist, and so being here arriued with a great traine of seruants and hor|ses, he sent foorth his commandements in writing to euerie prelat, to prouide him monie by way of proxie so that of the house of S. Albons, and of the celles that belonged therevnto, he had one and twentie marks, and when the moonks of S. Albons came to visit him in his house, they could not be permitted to depart, but were kept as prisoners, till they had sa|tisfied his couetous demand: for whereas they alled|ged that they had not brought any monie with them, he asked them whie they were such beggers, and fur|ther said, Send yée then to some merchant, that will lend you monie, and so it was doone: for otherwise they might not haue libertie to depart. This archbi|shop was of the order of the Friers preachers,A new order of Friers. in whome (saith Matthew Paris) we had hoped to haue found more abundant humilitie. About the same time, there appeared at London a new order of Fri|ers, not knowen till those daies, hauing yet the popes autentike bulles, which they openlie shewed, so that there séemed a confusion of manie orders, as the same Matthew Paris recordeth, and bicause they were apparelled in sackecloth, they were called sac|ked Friers.