The Chronicle of Thomas of Eccleston (De Adventu Fratrum Minorum in Angliam)
Translated by Father Cuthbert
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The opening
CHAPTER I OF THE FIRST COMING OF THE FRIARS MINOR
OF THE FIRST COMING OF THE FRIARS MINOR
In the year of the Lord 1 2 24, in the time of the Lord Pope Honorius (in the same year, that is, in which the Rule of the blessed Francis was by him confirmed and in the eighth year of the Lord King Henry, son of John, on the Tuesday after the Feast of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin, which that year fell upon a Sunday, the Friars Minor first arrived in England, landing at Dover. They were four clerics and live lay brethren. The clerics were these: first, Brother Agnellus of Pisa, who was in deacon’s orders and about thirty years of age. He had been c h osen by the blessed Francis to go to England as Minister- Provincial, in the General Chapter immediately preceding. He had been custos of Paris, and had there borne himself with such discretion that both with the brethren and with seculars he was much and rightly esteemed as a man of notable sanctity.
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- The words
- Father Cuthbert's English translation, copied word for word.
- Left out
- Page numbers and running heads from the printed pages, in 7 places
- Notes and pages added by translators, editors or publishers, in 7 places
- A label on the scanned copy ("mas of Eccleston")
- Other material that isn't the author's
- Half-title
- The title page and opening pages before chapter 1
- The printed table of contents (the app makes its own)
- The title over the text ("Eccleston's Chronicle")
- The printer's line ("THE RIVERSIDE PRESS LIMITED, EDINBURGH.")
- A speck on the last page, read as "c"