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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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decline, and thought by dispensing the most hopeless and
separating the most zealous to bring back forgotten fervour,
the real facts of the case were the exact opposite, for the Pro-
vince had been ruled by a succession of very strong men,
whose regime was if anything too severe, and who loathed
exemptions and dispensations as tending to break up that
unity of discipline and life which foreign ways and foreign
distinctions had alone been able to trouble.
The rumours of this in 1392⁵ reached the ears of Pope
Boniface IX, who commanded the English Dominicans to
behave to the Master-General with the same submission as
the friars of other nations behaved; and Raymund sailed
along, obstinately following his own ideas. In 1393⁶ he
removed the Provincial, Friar Seward, appointed as his vicar
Robert Humbleton, with Thomas Palmer as head of the
Visitation of London and the Marches, and William Bagthorpe

¹Registrum B. Raymundi Add. MSS., 6716.² Ibid.³Ibid.⁴Ibid.
⁵ Madox, Formulare^ p. 425.⁶ Mortier, vol. iii, p. 659.
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HAWKESYARD CHAPEL: CHOIR STALLS ON GOSPEL SIDE
DOMINICAN HOUSE OF STUDIES

[To face p. 144

Observance 145
as head of the Visitation of Cambridge and York. On
22 November of the same year Palmer was elected Provincial
at the English Chapter and confirmed in office by the Master-
General.¹ But the tumult grew the more fiercely, while disci
pline, the cause of the whole dispute, must have suffered from
the strained purpose of the opposed authorities. On 15 October
of the same year Pope Boniface IX addressed a bull to the
Master-General, detailing the complaints of King Richard II
and others, especially that certain Dominicans nominated as
papal chaplains had abused their powers and privileges by
refusing to come to choir for Divine Office.² On this account
the Pope forbids any of his chaplains to be absent from choir
either by day or night, with the sole exception of Nicholas
Summerton, who had laboured, and was still labouring, in
the interests of the Holy Roman Church.

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