me year, in the month of October, and at noon on the Feast day
of St. Dionysius the Bishop, Brother Gerard Wessep died in Zwolle. He
had been sent to the Monastery of Belheem, and of his obedience and
brotherly love he went thither after the death of many of the Brothers of
the House; for of these ten had died, as well as certain Laics that were
of the household. After the hour of Vespers he was borne to a carriage
and brought therein to our House, as he had desired, and he was buried
with the Brothers in the eastern cloister, by the side of the Sub-Prior.
At the time of his death he had fulfilled almost fifty-six years in the
Order, being in the seventy-seventh year of his age. He wrote many books
in the Latin and Teutonic tongues for the choir, the library, and for
sale; and he was forward to perform many labours for the common good.
Above all he was very faithful and ready in tending the sick and dying
till the moment of their departure; for he feared not then to tend and
stand by diseased and plague stricken folk, serving them for the sake of
God and brotherly love. So the Lord willed to reward him also, with the
Brothers that were dead in Belheem; wherefore, when he had spent fifteen
days in Zwolle, he fell sick of the plague, and God took him from the
toil and trouble of this present life and gave him eternal peace and
rest, which things--as oft he told me with clasped hands--he had long
desired.

In the same year, on the day following the Feast of St. Martin the
Bishop, at the hour of Vespers, died our beloved Brother James Cluit, a
devout Priest and first Rector of Udem, being sixty-three years old, and
he was buried before the High Altar. His memory shall continue to be
praised and blessed, for he was beloved of God, an ensample to us all,
and his own stern judge.

In the year of the Lord 1459, on the Feast of the Epiphany and at about
the fifth hour in the morning before Prime, died Everard of Wetteren, the
cook, a devout Donate, who was eighty years of age and over. He had
dwelt formerly in Deventer with Lambert Gale, a tailor, and in the days
of Florentius, who sent him to Windesem, he was first tailor of the
House; but the Brothers at Windesem sent him on to Mount St. Agnes before
the members of that community were invested with the Religious habit, and
there he helped to sew and make the garments in which those first four
Brothers were habited, whose investiture in the year 1398 is described
above.