Visitations and Chapters-General of the Order of Cluni 1269-1529

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1893 edition. Excerpt: ...caritate, secrete vel 1Wa This was a staff, of which three exaniples are still extant; one is somewhat similar to the bishop's crozier or pastoral staff, but shorter in the shaft. Another resembles a long walking-stick witli a knob at tho end; and another differs from the last by being bent with a crook. A A palam, publice vel ad partem, prout eorum discretioni secundum materie exigentiam videntur. Hec itaque, predicta die nona martii, in capitulo peregimus, presentibus reverendo in Christo patre domino abbate sancte Walpurgis, ordinis Sancti Benedicti,192b Argentinensis diocesis (Strasburg), necnon honorabilibus viris, domino Johanne Cesaris, rectore parrochialis ecclesie opidi Salsensis, et Guillermo Mathei, clerico Eduensis diocesis, testibus ad premissa specialiter requisitis. Item in crastino die, scilicet Xa. martii, dum ulterius ad visitationis negocium procedere niteremur, prior dicti monasterii Salsensis, una cum notario, venit ad nos, exponens quod dominus abbas et conventus deliberaverunt nichil a nobis recipere vel approbare, quod ulterius in visitatione seu reformatione faceremus, aut inscriptis poneremus, donec esset declaratum F. 27a, an dictum Salsense monasterium Cluniacensi monasterio pertineret, vel non; et quod nichilominus placebat eis quod per quatuor vel quinque dies, in causa recreationis et complacentie nostre, apud ipsos in ipso Salsensi monasterio maneremus. Nos autem instanter requisivimus, vicibus iteratis et presente notario, ut predicti abbas et conventus Salsensis nos permitterent visitationem perficere quam inceperamus; qui semper responderunt se esse paratos, declaratione prius facta quod sint Cluniacenses; et ita, in crastino, videlicet XIa. martii recessimus. Et ego Theodericus Israhel de Geysmaria, ...