der of the Dominickes. I call it Woluish, for that his mother when she was great with this Dominicke, dreamed þ^t she had in her wombe a Wolfe, which had a burning torch in his mouth. The which dreame, the preachers of that order do greatly aduaunce, and expound it to their orders glory, as well as they can. Neuerthelesse how soeuer they expound it, they can make a wolfe but a wolfe, and this to be a woluish order. The rule which they follow, semeth to be taken out of S. Augustine, as who should say, that Christes rule were not inough to make a christian man. Their profession standeth vpon 3. principall pointes, as thus described. Charitatem habentes, humilitatem seruātes, & paupertatem voluntariam possidentes: That is, hauyng charitie, holding humilitie, and possessing wilful pouertie. Their habite and clothing is blacke.

MarginaliaThe Minorite friers descended from sainct Fraunces.The order of the Minors or Minorite Friers descended from one Francis an Italian, of the citie Asisiū. This Assisian Asse, whom I suppose was some simple and rude Idiot, hearyng vpon a tyme how Christ sent forth his disciples to preach: thought to imitate the same in himself and his Disciples, and so left of shoes, had but one coate, & that of course cloth. In stede of a latchet to his shoe, and of a girdle: he toke about hym an hempen cord, and so apparelled his disciples, teaching them to fulfil (for so he speaketh) the perfection of the Gospell, to apprehend pouerty, and to walke in the way of holy simplicitie. He left in writyng to his disciples and followers, his rule which he called Regulam Euāgelicam. 1. the rule of the Gospell, as though the Gospell of Christ were not a sufficient rule to all Christen men, but it must take his perfection of franticke Francis. And yet for all that great presumption of this Francis, and notwithstandyng this his rule, sounding to the derogation of Christes Gospell, he was confirmed by this pope Innocent. Yeaand such fooles this Frauncis found abroade, that not only he had followers of hys doltish religion (both of the nobles, and vnnobles of Rome) but also some there were, which builded mansions for hym and hys Friers. Thys Francis, as he was superstitious in castyng all thynges from hym (as his girdle, girdyng a corde about hym) so in outward chastising of hymselfe, so streight he was to hys flesh (leauyng the ordinary remedy appoynted by god) that in winter season, he couered his body with Ise and snowe. He called pouerty his Lady: he kept nothing ouer nyght. So desirous he was of martyrdome, that he went to Siria to the Souldane, whiche receyued him honorably: wherby it may be thought, that (surely) he told him not þ^e truth, as Ihon Baptist dyd in Herodes house. For truth is seldom welcome in courtes, and in the world. But it is hard to make a Martyr of hym which is no true confessor. I wil here passe ouer the fable, how Christ and his saintes dyd mark hym with v. woundes. MarginaliaDiuers sectes of Franciscans.These Franciscanes or beggyng Friers, although they were all vnder one rule & clothyng of S. Francis: yet they be diuided in many sectes, and orders: some go on treen shoes or Pattins, some barefooted, some regulare Fransciscanes, or obseruantes, some Minors, or Minorites, other be called Minimi, other of the Gospell, other de Caputio. They all differ in many things, but accord in superstition and hypocrisie. And for somuch as we haue here entred into the matter of these two orders of Friers: by the occasion hereof I thought a litle by the way to digresse from our story, in recityng the whole cataloge or rablement of Monkes, Friers, and Nunnes, of all sectes, rules, and orders set vp and confirmed by the pope. The names of whome here in order of the Alphabet follow vnder written.¶ The rablement of religious orders.MarginaliaThe table of all religious orders.

Thus hast thou, if thou please (gentle reader) to know what orders and sectes of religion haue been set vp by the Pope, the catalogue and number of them all, so farre as we could searche them out: not onely in bokes printed of late in Germany, namely by the reuerend father Martin Luther: but also conferred with an other English boke, which came to our handes, conteyning the same lyke notes of auncient antiquitie, the number of which rablement of religious per-