ea.
This investiture, with indelible and perpetual vows to live the life of
the cloister, was conferred by the Reverend Fathers and the Priors of our
Order, namely, John Vos of Huesden, Prior of Windesem, and William
Vorniken of Utrecht, Prior of Mount St. Agnes near Zwolle. To these the
care and visitation of the House, and likewise of the house at Diepenvene
that lieth without Deventer, were afterward committed by the General
Chapter. But the number of these Sisters who were first invested in this
place was fourteen, of whom ten became nuns, and four Converts; and of
the ten nuns four did make their profession on the same day; the other
six, and the four Converts remained for a year as Novices.

In the year of the lord 1412, a General Chapter was holden and the houses
of the nuns at Diepenvene and Bronope were incorporated as members of the
said Chapter.

CHAPTER XIX.

_The death of Wermbold the Priest_.

In the year of the Lord 1413, on the Vigil of Pentecost, being the night
of the Festival of Barnabas the Apostle, and at the eleventh hour, died
Wermbold, a devout Priest of laudable life who was Confessor to the
Sisters of the third Order in the House of St. Caecilia. He came from
Holland, from a place near Gouda, and for long had stood as a burning and
shining light in the city of Utrecht, enkindling many by the word of his
preaching and drawing them to the path of right living by his good
example and his wholesome counsel; for he was a zealous lover of the holy
Scriptures, and an eloquent preacher to the people, one well beloved for
his eminent continency of life, and honoured by great folk. He procured
that divers books of sacred theology should be written, and translated
divers sayings of the Saints into the Teutonic tongue so as to profit the
faithful Lay folk who were earnestly desirous to hear the Word of God. At
length, when his pious labours in the service of God had been fulfilled
with many trials, the good Lord of His great kindness favoured Wermbold
with a most sweet consolation in a vision that was revealed to him. His
body was taken for reverent burial to the choir of the Church of St.
Caecilia, and the last words he spake as life departed were: "For Thou
Lord only hast set me in hope."

CHAPTER XX.

_Of the death of John Cele, Rector of the School at Zwolle_.

In the year of the Lord 1417, on the ninth day of May, which in that year
was the fourth Sunday after Easter, the rev