Note 256 — Chapter VI · THE MENDICANT ORDERS. (continued 2)

Ripoll I. 346, 348, 349, 352-3, 372, 375-9.—Waddingi Annal. ann. 1256, No. 38; ann. 1257, No. 1-4, 6; ann. 1259, No. 3-6; ann. 1260, No. 10.—Clement. PP. IV. Bull. Virtute conspicuos, ann. 1265.—Dupin, Bib. des Auteurs Éccles. T.X. ch. vii.

When, in 1632, an edition of St. Amour’s works was published in Constance (Paris) the Dominicans had sufficient influence with Louis XIII. to obtain its suppression in a savage edict. All the copies were seized: to retain one was punishable with a fine of three thousand livres, and it was declared a capital offence for a bookseller to have a single copy for sale (Mosheim de Beghardis, p. 27). The “Pericula Novissimorum Temporum” had, however, been printed, with two of St. Amour’s sermons, by Wolfgang of Weissenburg in his “Antilogia Papæ,” Basle, 1555, and this was reprinted in London in 1688, and embodied by Brown in his edition of the “Fasciculus Rerum Expetendarum et Fugiendarum” in 1690.