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solemnly sung after Compline whilst the
brethren were asperged by the prior.
St. Philip Neri used to frequent the ' Salve '
procession at the Church of the Minerva at
Rome. There is also a custom, universal
throughout the Order, of chanting the
' Salve ' round the deathbeds of its members,
so that all may pass into eternity with those
holiest words ringing in their ears.
" Confessions before Mass " is another phrase which seems to me hardly explicit. Does it refer to the Chapter of Faults?
The Dominican refectory, according to the Rule and Constitutions, is to be utterly unlike a dining-room. It is as much a room to pray in as to eat in. Further, it is a place of inviolable silence.* During meals from a little raised pulpit one of the brethren reads aloud from some devotional book, that, as the Rule of St. Augustine enjoins, " whilst the body is refreshed, the soul also may have its proper food."
Great stress is laid in the Constitutions on the wearing of woollen material next the skin; and this, no hardship here, is doubtless felt to be sufficiently penitential in the burning climates of the South. Linen is only permitted to the infirm and sick. According to the beautiful symbolism of the Venerable Julia Cicarelli of Camerino (1532- 1621), " Woollen garments show the patience and meekness of the lamb; the white habit purity of heart; the black mantle death to the world."
One would certainly be inclined to render culcitris mattresses, but in this context it must particularly mean a soft mattress, as a hard mattress is allowed by the Rule.
The first General Chapter of the Order, held in the lifetime of St. Dominic, ordered that each cell should contain a crucifix and an image of the Blessed Virgin Mary. There is an interesting allusion to the first of these injunctions in Blessed Raymond of Capua's ' Life of St. Catherine.'
Why should the " term fratres " be so exclusively appropriated to the Dominicans? Is it not equally to be applied to Augustinians (eremites), Franciscans, Carmelites, Trini- tarians, Mercedarians, Servites in fact to all Mendicant Orders?
MONTAGUE SUMMERS, F.R.S.L.
Arising out of your recent notes on the Dominican Order, perhaps you will kindly allow me space for a query which demands a preface. Very little seems to be known of
- If a bishop is present he may as a great con-
cession and privilege allow conversation at dinner.
the writings of Primate Walter Jorz of
Armagh, and of Archbishops Darlington and
Hotham of Dublin. The fact is strange, for
these prelates were men of uncommon dis-
tinction in their time. All three were
English Dominicans, and fairly prolific
writers, as we may infer from the lists of
their works in Bale, Pits, Ware, Tanner,
Quetif, and Echard. Darlington was one of
the compilers of the famous ' Concordantiae
Magnae,' the second earliest concordance of
the Bible. He afterwards became the
confessor and trusted friend of Henry III.,
served for many years as collector of the
Crusade subsidies in England, and died
Archbishop of Dublin. William Hotham, a
distinguished professor in the theological
schools of Paris, was twice Provincial of the
Dominicans in England. Refusing the see
of Llandaff, he was promoted to that of
Dublin. After negotiating more than one
truce between Edward I. and Philippe le
Bel, he was sent by the English monarch as
his ambassador to the Holy See, and died at
Dijon on the return journey. Primate
Walter Jorz, brother of Cardinal Thomas
Jorz, resigned his uneasy throne at Armagh^
and spent his declining years, apparently, at
Oxford. The first volume of my ' History
of the Irish Dominicans ' contains the fullest
extant account of these prelates, but I am
regretfully conscious of having failed to add
anything of importance to the bare and oft-
repeated lists of their writings. Their works,,
if discovered and described, might throw
useful light upon the social condition as well
as the theological thought of their tirne^
The best account of their writings, so far as
I am aware, is that given two hundred years-
ago in the first volume of Quetif and
Echard' s ' Scrip tores Ordinis Praedicatorum,'
and reproduced in my book. But that ac-
count should be considerably out of date
nowadays. Perhaps some reader may be
able to throw fresh light on the question.
M. H. MAC INEBNY, O.P.
St. Saviour's Priory, Dublin.
'THE ADVENTURES OF A POST CAPTAIN/ BY "NAVAL OFFICER" (12 S. iii. 70). The author of this book is Alfred Thornton. It was first published anonymously in 1817.. It is illustrated with coloured plates by C. Williams, but who this artist is I cannot find out. The number of plates varies; in some copies there are 23, in others as many as 25. Two copies of the book have recently been sold, of which one had 23 plates, the other 24. Other books of the same author are very scarce and command a high price- Two of these are entitled ' Don Juan ' and
