The original [and] sprynge of all sectes [and] orders by whome, wha or were they beganne. Translated out of hye Dutch in Englysh.
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- The original [and] sprynge of all sectes [and] orders by whome, wha or were they beganne. Translated out of hye Dutch in Englysh.
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- [Printed in Southwarke :: By me James Nicolson for Jhon Gough],
- 1537.
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- Monasticism and religious orders -- Early works to 1800.
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"The original [and] sprynge of all sectes [and] orders by whome, wha or were they beganne. Translated out of hye Dutch in Englysh." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A68520.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 17, 2024.
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AFter Christes byrth the yeare. M. c. lxvi dyd thys order begynne, (Yet do some saye that it was vnder Henry the vi. anno. M. c. lxxxix) in the tyme of Alexan∣der the. iii. The fyrst saye that what tyme the Emperoure Frederike Barbarossa had troubled Italy, and specially Gallia Cisal∣pina, and had bannyshed many, both men & women and chylderen into Dutchland: as they now cōtinued there a season and were fylled wyth mysery, they clothed themselues all in whyte, came to the emperoure, pray∣enge hym forgeuenesse, and to let them go home agayne, the which was graunted and permitted vnto them. Now whan they were come home, they kepte thēselues together, and promysed to go in lowly clothynge, the men and wemen to be separated ech from other, & to laboure euery one what he was skylde in, and had a commune purse (Theyr heade called they a Prouest, they kepte the rule of S. Benet. Thys order increased so both in goods and persons, that it was con∣firmed and endued with many priuileges of the B. of Rome.