classes had given in their adhesion to the new missionaries. No! it
was _not_ grandeur or riches or honour or learning that were
wanted above all things--not these, but Goodness, Meekness,
Simplicity, and Truth. The love of money was the root of all evil.
The Minorites were right. When men with a divine fervour proclaim a
truth, or even half a truth, which the world has forgotten, there is
never any lack of enthusiasm in its acceptance. In five years from
their first arrival the Friars had established themselves in almost
every considerable town in England, and where one order settled the
other came soon after, the two orders in their first beginning co-
operating cordially. It was only when their faith and zeal began to
wax cold that jealousy broke forth into bitter antagonism.

In no part of England were the Franciscans received with more
enthusiasm than in Norfolk. They appear to have established
themselves at Lynn, Yarmouth, and Norwich in 1226. Clergy and laity,
rich and poor, united in offering to them a ready homage. To this day
a certain grudging provincialism is observable in the East Anglian
character. A Norfolk man distrusts the settler from "the Shires," who
comes in with new-fangled reforms. To this day the home of wisdom is
supposed to be in the East. When it was understood that the virtual
leader of this astonishing religious revival was a Norfolk man, the
joy and pride of Norfolk knew no bounds. Nothing was too much to do
for their own hero. But when it became known that Ingworth had been
welcomed with open arms by Robert Grosseteste, the foremost scholar
in Oxford--he a Suffolk man--and that Grosseteste's friend, Roger de
Weseham, was their warm supporter, son of a Norfolk yeoman, whose
brethren were to be seen any day in Lynn market--the ovation that the
Franciscans met with was unparalleled. There was a general rush by
some of the best men of the county into the order.