e end of the
life of John, that faithful servant of Christ Jesus, to whom may God
grant to enjoy the glory of heaven with all the saints. His body was
buried at Windesem, in the ancient cloister, near the door of the church.

CHAPTER XXI.

_Concerning John Brinckerinck, a disciple of Master Gerard_.

In the year of the Lord 1419, on the 26th of March, that is to say, on
the day following the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary, John
Brinckerinck died at Deventer. He was a man beloved of God, a devout
Priest and Rector, and Confessor to the Beguines in the House of Master
Gerard Groote. He was born of good parents in the city of Zutphen, in
Geldria, and in the years of his youth he began the devout life through
the preaching of Master Gerard, for in a short while he became a disciple
of the Master and was adorned with special grace; moreover, he heard many
good things from him, and received from his mouth words of heavenly
wisdom, for he oft held converse with him in the House, and yet more
often without when they journeyed.

After Gerard's happy death, John was ordained to the priesthood, and when
John de Gronde, the first Confessor of the Sisters at Deventer died, he
ruled the said Sisterhood which Gerard had founded, being set up as the
second Rector thereof, in which office he was a zealous minister, and he
governed the Sisters in most excellent wise for many years, for God
helped him. Sometimes he preached the Word of God in church to the
people, and he drew many to the service of God as handmaids of Christ;
and when the congregation of Sisters had begun to grow in merit and to
increase daily in number, he began to build a monastery for the Nuns of
the Order of Regulars outside the city of Deventer towards the north, a
work done with great and daily labour, and he ruled the same most
strictly with all diligence.

Through his example and his counsels, which promoted the salvation of
many, a great number of other Houses for Nuns were begun in divers parts,
of which some were under the discipline of the Canons Regular, while
others professed the rule of the third Order and were incorporated
therein.

His body was taken to his own monastery at Diepenvene, and there buried
in the choir before the High Altar, and after his death John Hoef was
preferred to be Rector of the Sisters in Deventer, but the care of the
Nuns was committed to the Prior of Windesem.

CHAPTER XXII.

_Of the death of Gis