Thomas of Eccleston relates that the Franciscan friars, on coming to England in 1224, were full of zeal, and resolved to adhere to the strictest rules of the order. In one of their London stations, two weary and hungry strangers one night arrived, and the seniors had not a drop of beer to give them; but after much anxious consultation, they at last made up their minds to borrow a pot of beer, and when the pot was passed to them, the brethren of the convent were only to pretend to take a sip. By this device they got through the entertainment. They resolutely made up their minds to go barefooted in spite of the cold and mud. At the Oxford station it is said that Friar Walter de Madeley, of happy memory, found two shoes, and when he went to matins put them on. He stood at matins accordingly, and felt considerable comfort. But afterwards, when he went to bed, and was resting, he dreamt that he had to go through a dangerous pass between Oxford and Gloucester--Boysalum--where there are usually robbers; and when he was going down into a deep valley, they ran up to him on each side of the way, shouting, "Kill him! kill him!" Overpowered with dread, he said he was a Friar Minor; but they said, "You lie, for you do not walk barefooted." He, believing himself to be as usual unshod, said, "Yes, I do walk barefooted"; and when he boldly put forth his foot to look at it, he found himself standing before them shod with those shoes. In his excessive confusion he immediately awoke from sleep, and pitched the shoes into the middle of the yard as an unclean thing. HOW RAIMUND LULL WENT TO CONVERT THE SARACENS (A.D. 1236).