8o 2ri)r ILittle jFlotuers of 



and fo great their modefty that no fainteft 

 noife nor clamor was to be heard, and 

 marvelling at fo orderly and fo vafb a multi- 

 tude, with tears and much devotion he faid, 

 " Verily, verily this is the Encampment and 

 the Army of the Knights of God." In all 

 that multitude no man was heard recount- 

 ing idle tales nor Jefts ; but wherever a 

 band of Brothers was met together, either 

 they prayed, or they read their Offices, or 

 they bewailed their fins or thofe of their 

 benefa6lors, or they difcourfed of the Salva- 

 tion of their fouls. Upon that field were 

 huts woven of hurdles or of reeds, divided 

 into bands according to the Friars from 

 various provinces ; and hence that Chapter 

 was called the Chapter of the Hurdles and 

 alfo of the Reeds. Their beds were the 

 bare ground, and fome among them had a 

 little ftraw ; their Pillows were of ftone or 

 of wood ; by reafon of which all who heard 

 or faw them felt much Admiration for their 

 devotion. And fo great was the fame of 

 their San6lity, that there came thither from 

 the Papal Court, which was then at Perugia, 

 and from other parts of the Vale of Spo- 

 leto, many counts, barons, cavaliers, and 

 other gentlemen, and many country people 



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