_Spec._, 126a; _Conform._, 104b, 1.
[15] Vide Eccl., 3: History of the entrance of Adam of Oxford into the Order.Cf., _Chartularium Univ.

Par._, t.i., nos.

47 and 49.
[16] Eccleston's entire chronicle is a living witness to this.
[17] _Admonitio_, v.; cf.

_Conform._, 141a.
Compare the _Constitutiones antiquae_ (_Speculum_, Morin, iii., f^o 195b-206) with the Rule.

From the opening chapters the contradiction is apparent: _Ordinamus quod nullus recipiatur in ordine nostro nisi sit talis clericus qui sit competenter instructus in grammatica vel logica; aut nisi sit talis laicus de cujus ingressu esset valde celebris et edificatio in populo et in clero_.