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WILLIAM OF VAUROUILLON, O.MIN. 297 Indeed, only a few years before Vaurouillon was appointed to París the statute had been renewed by the General Chapter of Forl'i. (1421) 37 • Accordingly, William must have passed sorne eight years at least in teaching after his ordination 38 • On the other hand, if his words are to be taken at their face value: aliisque pluribus in universitatibus (ed. 1496, f.2a) ...aliisque in universitatibus (f.83b), they imply that he had already « read » the Sentences elsewhere besides in a Studium generale. Where he taught is not immediately apparent. The Ordinations of Benedict XII list three such studia in France : Bordeaux, Narbon– ne, Marseilles 30 ; while the Chapter of 1411 mentions Orleans, and perhaps Toulouse and Lyons are not to be excluded 40 • There is sorne probability that William was in Toulouse sorne eight or nine years before his Third Book of the Sentences. In the question on the Immaculate Conception he refers to the tract supposedly written by Alexander of Hales toward the end of his life 41 , « which tract sorne eight or more years ago was publicly displayed by the Toulouse master Johannes Garrie, doctor of this Order, against certain ones who were babbling anew against the Virgin in the University of Toulouse » 42 • Whether William knew this merely from hearsay or had actually been present, is not evident. If he were the author of the sermon Necdum erant abyssi (there are sorne who believe he is!), we could be sure he was in Toulouse in 1424 and there had seen the Mariale of Alexander chained in the choir of the archbishopric and heard of the suelden death of a master who had opposed the doctrine of Our Lady's Conception 43 • 31 As reported by Nicholaus Glassberger, Chronica, in Anal.Franc. II, 276. We cannot pass over the letter of Martín V calling the Minors to task for promoting sorne friars to the magisterium in theology when they had not fulfilled the requirements for the degree (1 Dec. 1429); Bull.Franc. VII, n.1878, p.730. 38 It is on the basis of such chronology that we have suggested his birth must have been between 1390 and 1394. 30 M. BmL, Ordinationes, in Arch.Franc.Hist. 30(1937) 349. 40 M. BRLEK, op. cit., 42; Anal.Franc. 11, 242. 41 See A. EMMEN, O.F.M., Un «Maria/e» attribuito falsamente ad Aless. d'Hales, in Studi Francescani, ser. 111 16(1944) 3-12. 42 In III Sent., d.3, a.2, f.168b: « Probatur istud argumento doctoris subtilis qui de pritnis huius alme universitatis doctoribus extat hanc adaperiens veritatem. Dicit [read di– citur?] tamen quod frater et magíster huius schole primarius Alexander de Hales iuxta vite terminas tractatum edidit egregium in qua immunitatem a quolibet crimine et culpa fuisse ostendit in sanctissima Virgine: qui a Tholosano magistro Johanne Garrie huius doc– tore ordinis contra nonnullos in virgine de novo garrientes in universitate tholosano: citra octo annos publice est ostensus ». Garrie should, of course, be ordinarily read as Garsia, but Vaurouillon is indulging here in his taste for puns: Garrie... garrientes. Garsia taught at Toulouse for more than forty years from 1390 to 1430 at least; cf. Arch.Franc.Hist. 9(1916) 100; 14(1921) 364; 33(1940) 126; and A. EMMnN, Coll.Franc. 14(1944) 170 n.117. 43 Cf. FRANC. DE ARIMIN0, O.F.M., Sermo ad clerum de Concept. B.V.M., in Tractatus Quatuor de l. C. B.M.V. (Bibl.Franc.Schol. XVI, Quaracchi 1954), 368-369.