and devout man.

In the year of the Lord 1406, on the Feast of Corpus Christi, which fell
in that year on the day before the Feast of St. Barnabas, two brothers
that were Clerks, and one that was a Convert, were invested. These were
Thomas Hemerken of the city of Kempen in the diocese of Cologne, and own
brother to John of Kempen the first Prior. The father of these was
called John and their mother Gertrude. The other Clerk was called
Oetbert Wilde of Zwolle, whose father's name was Henry and his mother's
Margaret. The Convert was Arnold Droem of Utrecht who brought great
wealth to the monastery and was in charge of the Refectory.



CHAPTER XI.


_Of the death of Brother Wolfard, Priest in the Monastery of Mount St.
Agnes_.

In the year of the Lord 1401, on the Feast of the Holy Martyrs John and
Paul, Brother Wolfard, son of Matthias, died in the monastery pertaining
to our order, which is called the House of the Blessed Virgin in the
Wood, and lieth near Northorn. He came from Medenblic, a town in
Holland, and was one of the four first Brothers of our House. He was a
man of great stature and grave deportment, eloquent in discourse, and his
hoary head was comely to look upon. He took part in the labours of the
younger Brothers, and would perform lowly tasks, such as washing the
trenchers, digging the ground, carrying stones, or collecting wood. It
was his wont to come early into the choir, to be alert in watching,