=Peter Philargi= or =Philargus de Candia= (afterwards Pope Alex. V) is said to have been of very humble origin, and to have begged his bread of necessity[1566]. Early in life he joined the Franciscans, who soon recognised his ability. He was sent to England in his youth and studied first at Norwich, and then at Oxford, where he became Bachelor of Theology[1567] (c. 1370?). He lectured on the _Sentences_ at Paris in 1378[1568], and obtained the degree of D.D. in that University[1569]. In 1402 he became Archbishop of Milan, in 1405 Cardinal, and in 1409 he was elected Pope at the Council of Pisa, being then more than seventy years old and famous for learning and piety[1570]. His brief pontificate was chiefly remarkable for the favours and privileges which he lavished on the Mendicant Friars. He died on May 3rd, 1410, it was believed of poison administered by order of his successor John XXIII[1571]. He is described by an English chronicler as ‘jocundus vir et eloquens in Latina lingua et Graeca, solemnis et nominatissimus Doctor in Theologia[1572].’ _Lectures on the Sentences._ MSS. Basel A II. 22. ‘Conclusiones textuales super Magist. Sentent.’ Paris:--Bibl. Nat. Fonds de Cluni 54, = 1467 of the Latin Addit. MSS. (sec. xiv) fol. 8. ‘Expl. collectiva pro primo principio fratris Petri de Candia, quam compilavit Parisius, a{o} M{o} CCC{o} LXXVIII{o} XXIIII{a} die mensis Septembris, et XXVIII die ejusdem mensis in scolis legit, etc.’ Venice:--St. Mark, Vol. I, Cl. III, Cod. 110 (A. D. 1382), _Questiones in lib. 1 Sentent._, being lectures at Paris in 1379.--_Ibid._ Cod. III (A. D. 1394), _Questiones in lib. 2 et 3 Sentent._ ‘Explicit lectura super sententias ven. mag. fratris Petri de Candia ordinis Minorum A. D. 1390 compilata tempore quo Parisiis legebat sententias, quas de verbo ad verbum ut jacet suis scolaribus in scolis antedicti ordinis prolegebat.’ _Officium Visitationis B. V. Mariae_, compiled by Peter when Bishop of Novara. MS. Florence:--Laurentiana, _ex Bibl. S. Crucis_, Plut. xxv. Sin. Cod. ix. _Prosae vel Sequentiae quinque_, by Peter then Archbishop of Milan. MS. Ibid. _Praefationes Ambrosianae._ MS. Rome:--Archiv. Basilicae S. Petri (Montfaucon, p. 158). _Conclusiones Petri de Candida Cardinalis Mediolanensis, S.T.P., pro moderno schismate auferendo_ (urging that a general Council should be called). MS. Brit. Mus.:--Harl. 431, fol. 30{b}. Cf. _ibid._ fol. 33{b}, 34{b}, 35; and Cambridge:--Emmanuel Coll. I. § 29, _Conclusiones P. de Candia positae in Concilio_. _De obligationibus Epistola._ Oxford:--Bodl. Canonic. 278, fol. 65. Florence:--Bibl. Leopoldina (Laurentiana), Cod. Gaddian. 188 (sec. xv).