The substance of the foregoing narrative concerning Tauler and the laymen will be found in the _Lebenshistorie des ehrwürdigen Doctors Joh. Tauler_. See also C. Schmidt’s account of Nicholas in his monograph on Tauler (p. 28), and a characteristic letter by Nicholas concerning visions of coming judgment given in the Appendix. Footnote 118: See Note, p. 254. Footnote 119: See first Note, p. 256. Footnote 120: _Serm. on Eleventh Sun. after Trinity_, ii. p. 436. Footnote 121: _Serm. on Eleventh Sun. after Trin._, ii. pp. 442, 443. Also, _Predigten_, vol. iii. p. 19, and _Schmidt_, p. 125. Footnote 122: _Third Serm. on Thirteenth Sun. after Trin._, ii. pp. 474-478. Footnote 123: _First Serm. on Thirteenth Sun. after Trin._, ii. p. 459. Footnote 124: See second Note, p. 256. Footnote 125: _Twenty-first Sun. after Trin._, ii. p. 584. Footnote 126: See Note, p. 257. CHAPTER VI. Keep all thy native good, and naturalize All foreign of that name; but scorn their ill. Embrace their activeness, not vanities; Who follows all things forfeiteth his will. HERBERT. The day after the conversation recorded in the last chapter, Atherton was called to a distance from Summerford on legal business. Before leaving, he had some further talk with Willoughby on several topics suggested by what had passed on the previous day. The lawyers did not release him so promptly as he had expected, and as he had taken a copy of Tauler’s sermons with him, and had time at his disposal, he wrote more than once to his friend in the course of the next week. This chapter will consist of extracts from the letters thus written, and will form a fitting supplement to matters dealt with in several preceding conversations. * * * * *