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Excerpt from The Dominican Order and Convocation: A Study of the Growth of Representation in the Church During the Thirteenth Century
This brief study would not have been written had it not been for M. Bemont, the Editor of the Revue Historique, and Honorary Doctor of Letters in the University of Oxford. He is unconscious of his influence: it is none the less real. He has done so much to illuminate the English history of the thirteenth century, that he must not be surprised if others try to use the light he has shed to explore new paths.
1 owe a large debt of gratitude to my old pupil, Father Bede Jarrett, of the Order of Preachers. When we were once discussing together the development of representation, and I was urging the point I have urged here, that the Church supplied both the idea of representation and its rules of procedure, he suggested to me that the influence of his own Order must have been considerable within the Church, and he gave me my first knowledge of the organization of his Order. He has increased my debt of late by sending me some references which he had collected. I would refer any of my readers who may be interested in the Dominican Order to Father Jarrett's article in the Home Counties Magazine for June 1910 on 'Friar Confessors of English Kings', and to his pamphlet on the Dominicans published by the Catholic Truth Society.
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