JAMIS DU He declared thai the little cords were worn from honourable mo- A, ». 1311, tives, and relates a story of his being engaged in a battle against the Saracens, in which he lost his cord, and was punished by the Grand Master for a default in coming home without it. He gives the same account of the secrecy of the chapters as all the other brethren, states that the members of the order were forbidden to confess to the friars mendicants, and were enjoined to confess to their own chaplains; that they did nothing contrary to the christian faith, and as to their endeavouring to promote the advancement of the order by any means, right or wrong, that exactly the contrary was the case, as there was a statute in the order to the eflect, that if any one should be found to have acquired anything unjustly, he should be deprived of his habit, and be expelled the order. Being asked what induced him to become an apostate, and to fly from his order, he replied that it was through fear of death, because the abbot of Lagny, (the papal inquisitor,) when he examined him at Lincoln, asked him if he would not confess anything further, and he answered that he knew of nothing further to confess, unless he were to say things that were not true ; and that the abbot, laying his hand upon his breast, swore by the word of God that he would make him confess before he hud done with him ! and that being terribly frightened be afterwards bribed the gaoler of the castle of Lincoln, giving him forty florins to let him make bis escape. The abbot of Lagny, indeed, was as good as his word, for on the 23th of June, four days after this imprudent avowal, Brother Thomas Tocci ilo Thoroldeby was brought back to Saiut Martin's Church, and there, in the presence of the same parties, he made a third confession, in which he declares that, coerced by two Templars with drawn swords in their hands, he denied Christ with his mouth, but Dot with his heart ; and spat beside the cross, hut not on it; that he was required to spit upon the image of