layman from Lombardy was appointed warden, who first taught letters by night in the church of the Blessed Peter at Cornhill, and afterwards became Vicar of England, while Brother Agnellus went to the general chapter. In the vicarate he had as his associate Brother Richard of Ingworth; in the end, being unable to endure such heights of prosperity, and being weakened by so many honours, he became insane, and apostatised from the Order. It is worthy of note that in the second year of the administration of Brother Peter, fifth Minister of England, that is to say, in the thirty-second year after the arrival of the brethren in England, the number of brethren living in the province of England, in forty-nine places, amounted to MCCXLII. THE RULE OF SAINT FRANCIS (1224). +Source.+--_Monumenta Franciscana_, vol. ii., pp. 65 _et seqq._ (Rolls Series.) (The following extracts are from an English translation of the fifteenth century. The Rule itself was confirmed by Honorius III. in 1224.) In the name of God: here begynneth the rewle and the lif of the bretherne minoris, the first chapiter. The rewle and lif of the bretherne mynorys is this, to obserue and kepe the holy gospelle of our Lord Jhesu Christ in lyving in obedience, without propre,[11] and in chastite. Brother Fraunces promyseth obedience and reuerence to the lord Honory, Pope, and to his successours laufully enteryng, and to the churche of Rome; and alle other bretherne be bownde to obey vnto brother Fraunces and to his successours. II. Of them that wille resceive this lyf, and in what maner they may be resceyved: