A Balade sent by a Poursyant to the Shirreves of London, acompanyed with theireBretherne upon Mayes Daye, at Busshopes Wod, at an honurable Dyner, ech of them bringginge his Dysshe.
The mayre mette the quenes grace at her comyng forthe of y{e} towre and all his bretherne and aldermen standyng in chepe.
And that daye there was a greate wrastelynge betwene englysshe men and frensshe men before bothe the kynges the frensshe kynge had none but preestes that wrasteled which were bygge men and stronge they were bretherne but they had moost falles.
And I wille laboure, and yt ys my wille surely and steadfastely that alle the bretherne occupie and exercyse themself in laboure, and in such occupation and laboure as belongeth to honeste.
Our dyvyne servyse the clerkis saide as other clerkis, and the lay bretherne said ther Pater noster.
Brother Fraunces promyseth obedience and reuerence to the lord Honory, Pope, and to his successours laufully enteryng, and to the churche of Rome; and alle other bretherne be bownde to obey vnto brother Fraunces and to his successours.
How the bretherneshold behave them self when they goo by the weye: .
And alle the bretherne must be clothid with symple and vyle clothinge.
That the bretherne may not resceive any coyne or money: I commande stedfastly and straitly too all the bretherne that in no wise they resceive any maner of coyne or money, nother by them self nor by none other meane person.
In the name of God: here begynneth the rewle and the lif of the bretherne minoris, the first chapiter.
The rewle and lif of the bretherne mynorys is this, to obserue and kepe the holy gospelle of our Lord Jhesu Christ in lyving in obedience, without propre,[11] and in chastite.
And the bretherne shalbe wel ware that they medle not nor enbesy them self with ther temporalle goodis or procuryng therof, that they may frely do ther with what so euer God putteth or enspireth in ther myndis.
The maner how the bretherne shall use and occupie them self in bodily labour.
Hauing killed his bretherne on a stone, Abimelech was forced ielde the ghoast: For besieging with for warre Thebes, anon A strocke he had, of a woman with lost.
It is an olde duty / and an auncyent custume / that the Mayre of London with his bretherne shall offer at Poules certayne dayes in the yere.
Chauntre preestis perpetually to praye in the sayd churche for the Bretherne and Systers of the same Fraternyte, and for the soules of them that be departed, and for all cristen soules.
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