[10] _Præcipio firmiter per obedientiam fratribus universis quod
ubicunque sunt, non audeant petere aliquam litteram in Curia
Romana._ _Test. B. Fr._

[11] A comparison with the Bullary of the Preaching Friars is
especially instructive: from their first chapter at Notre Dame
de Prouille, in 1216, they are about fifteen; we find there at
this time absolutely nothing that can be compared to the
Franciscan movement, which was already stirring up all Italy.
But while the first bull in favor of the Franciscans bears the
date of June 11, 1219, and the approbation properly so called
that of November 29, 1223, we find Honorius already in the end
of 1216 lavishing marks of affection upon the Dominicans;
December 22, 1216, _Religiosam vitam_. Cf. Pressuti, _I regesti,
del Pontefice Onorio III._, Roma, 1884, t. i., no. 175; same
date; _Nos attendentes_, ibid., no. 176; January 21, 1217,
_gratiarum omnium_, ib., no. 243. Vide 284, 1039, 1156, 1208. It
is needless to continue this enumeration. Very much the same
could be done for the other Orders; whence the conclusion that
if the Brothers Minor alone are forgotten in this shower of
favors, it is because they decidedly wished to be. It must be
admitted that immediately upon Francis's death they made up for
lost time.

[12] The authenticity of this passage is put beyond doubt by
Ubertino di Casal's citation. _Archiv._, iii., p. 53. Cf.
_Spec._, 30a; _Conform._, 111b, 1; 118b, 1; Ubertino, _Arbor
vitæ cruc._, iii., 3.