to Hugh Bishop of that City, a Prelate of great Sanctity, who receiv'd them with all the Marks of Charity, that they could wish for, and appointed the solitude of La Chartreuse for their Habitation, where they settled, A. D. 1086. St. Bruno, who was the most able Divine among them, was chosen their first Prior; but he was sent for to Italy, in 1090. by Pope Urban II. and retir'd with his Permission to a solitude of Calabria, call'd La Torre, where he died October 6. 1101. Lauduin succeeded him in the Priory of La Grand Chartreuse, and one Peter supplied his Place; after whom John was promoted to that Dignity, whose suc∣cessor was Guigue de Castre a Native of Valence in Dauphine the fifth Prior of that famous Monastery, who committed the Statues of the Order to Writing, and govern'd it during 27 Years, that is to say, from A. D. 1110 to 1137.
The Works of Bruno Bishop of Segni, was commonly attributed to this St. Bruno, and among those that bear his Name, printed at Colen in 1611. and publish'd by Theodore de Camp a Carthusian Monk of that City; there are only two Letters that really belong to St. Bruno, which were written concerning his solitude in Calabria; one of them being directed to Ra∣dulphe le Verd, Provost of the Church of Rheims, whom he exhorts to retire from the World, and the other to his Monks of La Chartreuse.
GUIGUE in like manner compos'd divers Works, besides the Statutes of his Order, lately printed in the first Tome of the Annals of the Carthusian Monks, viz. the Life of St. Hugh Bishop of Grenoble, referr'd to by Surius in April 1. Certain Meditations, or rather Moral Notions, printed in the Bibliotheca Patrum: A Treatise of the Contemplative Life, or the Ladder of the Cloister; or of the four Exercises of the Monastick Cell, which are annexed to St. Bernard's Works: A Treatise of Truth and Peace, a Manuscript Copy of which is kept in the Library of the Carthusians at Colen; And divers Letters, four of which are still extant, and were set forth by Father Mabillon, in the second Tome of St. Bernard's Works.
The First is directed to Haimeric Chancellor of the Church of Rome; in which he inveighs against the Pride and Luxury of the Clergy-men of his time, especially those of the Church of Rome; and asserts, that recourse ought not to be had to Arms or to the Secular Power, to maintain the Interest of the Church, or to augment its Grandeur.
In the Second, written to Hugh Prior of the Knights Templars, he declares, That he does not exhort him to make War with the visible Enemies of the Church, but to oppose its invisible Enemies, and that he would advise him to subdue Vice, rather than to attack the Infidels.
In the Third, he comforts Pope Innocent II. and exhorts him, not to be surpriz'd at the Ef∣forts made against him by the Schismaticks; avouching at the same time, that there can be but one Pope, and that the whole World ought, in a manner, to be look'd upon as his Diocess.
In the last, he writes to the Monks of the Carthusian Convent at Durbon near Marseilles, That he had caus'd a Collection to be made of St. Jerom's Letters, and had corrected a great number of Faults which had crept into them; declaring also, That he retrench'd from that Collection those Letters, which the meanness of the Style, or the difference of the Conceptions, made it appear to be unworthy of that great Man. He likewise makes a Catalogue of the latter, and passes a very judicious Censure upon them; which shews that Solitude and the practice of Piety, do not hinder a Man from applying himself to Study, and that the Art of Critique is not incompatible, with Morality and Spiritual Exercises.