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extravagant kind ae —— ae looked lefs like religion 
than alienation of m r this, viz. in the ed 
‘1208, hearin a0 paflage eens att. x. 
“which Chrift B ddreffes his ; apoftles, “* Provide neither ne 
nor filver, &e. ” he was led to co — a voluntary and 
Innoc t TIT. extremely adapted to the prefent flate of the 
ok and o reftore its declining credit, was 
folemnly coon and pen and d by Hon norius III. in 1223, 
and had made a confiderable progrefs before the death of its 
founder in 1226. “Francis, through an exceffive humility, 
w ould not fuffer the monks of his order to be ca. ed fratres, 
ed grey friars, on account 
of the eu of their cloathing, and cordeliers, &c. The 
Francife s and Dominicans were zealous and aGive friends 
to the papal hierarchy, and, i 
es and honourable emplo hare 8. 
d wit 
savas committed to athen e ne a means of fub- 
fiftence, and rich indempification for their nee 
poverty. In confequence of this. t, the rule of the 
founder, ik abiolutely prohibited both perfonal and 
collective, property, fo that neither the individual nor the 
community were permitted to poffefs either fund, revenue, 
or any worldly goods, was confidered we ag pe and fevere, 
and difpenfed with foon after ‘his re- 
gory IX. publifhed an interpretation of a le, ee 
Its eek which was farther — rmed by Innocent IV. i 
d by Alexa alee oA . 
with Jefus Chrift.”? In the a. = aces the 
whole Francifean order was divided © parties ; the 
one embracing the fevere 2 difcipline and aie nee of 
t. Francis, were calle irituals 3; an other, wh 
infifted on. mitigating the auftere injunctions of their founder, 
rere denominated ‘ pea en of the community.”’ 
ees and fh 
rancis, and 
tha Neither the 
ineieaten of Clement V. nor the violence of John XXII. 
could appeafe the tumult occafioned by thefe two parties ; 
however, their rage fubfided from the year 1329. In 1368 
V. . 
n return, were diftinguifhed | a 
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thefe two parties were formed into two: large bodies, cof 
prehending an whole Francifean order, which fubstt te 
this day the ‘* conventual bréthren,’? and the 
“ neers of Ge obfervance, or obfervation,” a whom 
{prung the Capuchins and Recolleéts. Moth. - Hitt. 
rol. itt, See alfo Nun. i St. CLare, and Fitans, The 
general opinion is, that the Francifcans came into England 
in the year Lass and had their firft houfe at Canterbury, 
and their fecond at London; but there is no certain ac 
of their es here till Henry VII. built two or three 
houfes e diffolution of the monaiteries, the 
convent! Francifems had about fifty-five houfes, which 
were under feven or wardenfhips; viz. thofe of 
London, York, aa Briftol, Oxford, Newcattle, 
and Worcefter. 
FRANCISCO pr apne in Geography, a town of 
ae See hae S. E. of P 
< 
Fr? river of. Brazil, which difembogues 
op co ake bay of Vafabarris, fouthward of Fernambuco, 
cafion as fuch eddies ta the diftance of three or four 
eagues 
the thore in this ue efc a ft 
lice to Femambuco, exchanging g 
The bar of = river ant not above eight feet of water upos 
it, fo that they are obliged to ufe {mall fchooners for the 
convenience of exporting their goods. 
US, Peter, in Biography, a celebs ated Greek 
and Latin poet, was born at A miterdam in 16 
id Gronovius, with whom he entéred mto a moft intimat 
eee n 16695 made a tour to England, from 
whence he proceeded to France, where he obtained the 
He formed 
many of the moft lextned men of the age in ae a lived ; 
was treated pas refpe& by the gran t Flo- 
rence, an ani — vifited by the . principal people 
of the ai he magiftrates of aie ap. 
continued to difcharge the duties of his office at ‘Ain m- 
fterdam till his death in 1704. He was deeply -fkilled ix 
Latin poetry an ry, though fome excellent judges 
have 
ue Grece,’’ poffefles great merit. 
were written on William I1I. king of En ae ‘Frederic- 
William, elector of Brandenburg, and his fony the firft kin 
of Pruffia; and after his death a number of gold coins and 
other valuable prefents, which he had received = ‘thiefe 
and other a - great men were found among his 
property. ss are _ rous, and confit any of 
porns, paons aa differtations. Gen. pi 
CK 
S DE Faancken NAU, GEORGE, was born at 
Naumburg, in Upper Saxony, on the third of May y 1643» 
His father, althou h living .a s a fimple peafant of a 
noble family. After going cirouhi: his fchool- cation 
George -went to Jena at the agé of 18, and was ned a 
poet by count palatine Richter, in confequence of | his. ee 
ordinary talent for writing verfes in the German, Latin, 
Greek, and Hebrew languages. But he exhibited” ill 
Saas ae during his courfe of medical ftudies ; and the 
of Naumburg, who recognized -his merits, affor — 
Hh hina 
