Note 401 — Chapter I · WANDERING PREACHERS AND FRIARS
Lucy Toulmin Smith translation
“Liber de adventu Minorum in Angliam,” in “Monumenta Franciscana,” ed. Brewer, Rolls Series, 1858, p. 28. The author, Thomas of Eccleston, himself a Franciscan, saw the most flourishing period of the mendicant orders; his book, of extreme naïveté, abounds in visions and tales of wonders.