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Chapter VI How he made all the brethren go out of a certain house that was said to belong to the brethren N

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Chapter VI How he made all the brethren go out of a certain house that was said to belong to the brethren N
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owwhen he was passing through Bologna, he heard that the house
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of the brethren there had been newly built. Straightway, as soon as
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he heard how that house was said to be the house of the brethren, he turned back on his steps and went out of the city, and strictly commanded that all the brethren should depart thereout in haste and should in nowise thenceforward dwell therein. Whereupon all the brethren went out in such wise that not even the sick remained therein, but were turned out with the others, until such time as Ugolino, Lord Bishop of Ostia and Legate in Lom- bardy, did publicly declare the said house to be his own. And a brother that lay sick and was turned out of the house at that time beareth witness to these things and did write this.

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