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Title: The English Dominicans
Year: 1921 (1920s)
Authors: Jarrett, Bede, 1881-1934
Subjects: Dominicans
Publisher: London : Burns, Oates and Washbourne
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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Hubert de Burgh and Peter des Roches, as Simon de Montfort
and Piers Gaveston, as Richard II and Henry IV, turned to
them for counsel and for the ghostly direction of their souls.
From de Burgh, by will, they inherited Whitehall, from de
Montfort the Priory of Leicester, from Gaveston's memory
the richest friary in England, their noviciate house at Kings
Langley. Edward II loved them and confessed to them;
while Thomas of Lancaster, in revolt against Edward, when
beheaded by royal orders after the battle of Boroughbridge,
had his last hours comforted by a Blackfriar. Peter des Roches
of Winchester, a scandalous prelate of foreign birth and
sympathies, was equalled, indeed, surpassed, in devotion to
the Order by Robert Grosseteste, learned, pious, English, the
famous professor of Oxford and Bishop of Lincoln. Henry III
and his finer son and successor, Edward I, were the first
Plantagenets when the Dominicans came, and till that greatest
of English royal houses fell in the murder of their last repre-
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HAWKESYARD CHAPEL, REREDORS AND CHOIR SCREEN
DOMICAN HOUSE OF STUDIES

[To face p. The Restoration 215
sentative, it was In the Order of S. Dominic that it found its
spiritual help. The house of Lancaster, crafty, unstable,
usurping-, turned to Carmelites and Franciscans, the house of
York and Tudor to the secular priesthood; but the wildest,
fiercest, noblest of all the kings since the Normans, found in
the brethren of S. Thomas Aquinas their guides, philosophers,
and friends. Following the design of their founder, the first English
priory was established by the friars at Oxford, where their
arrival was immediately followed by the opening- of schools
for philosophy and theology. Here by opposition they stimu-
lated Walter of Merton to adopt the colleg-e system, and thus
to introduce it to the University, and were of such influence
that for a whole g-eneration all public and official disputations
and acts were carried on within their walls. Then when the
University learnt naturally to resent this and to desire that
these should be transferred to the University church

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