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296 IGNATIUS BRADY Order, in the Province of Touraine and Custody of Brittany 29 , is unknown, save that he says it was in early youth and that he received his spiritual and intellectual training within the community: « Ad te venio, 0 pauperum patriarcha Francisce, pater indite, cuius ordo me de mundana conversatione in iuvenili aetate revocavit, nu– trivit in moribus, in scientiis erudivit! » 30 In the light of what we know of Franciscan legislation around 1400, this could well mean that he was thus « rescued » at a rather tender age. The reception of pueri was a bone of contention between the Observants and the Conventuals, so that in 1430 the Chapter of Assisi forbade reception before the age of fourteen years 31 • Hence William could have been twelve or fourteen at his entry, while the studies he made in the Order would likely have included even primary schooling (grammatica) as well as the whole gamut of the trivium and quadrivium 32 • Somewheres after the completion of his twenty– fourth year, according to existing statutes, he would have been presented for ordination 33 • It is more than a probability, as Wegerich suggests 34 , that William taught at other Studia or even other Universities before he was sent to Paris. In 1336 the Constitutions of Benedict XII had included a statute that friars selected to obtain a degree at Paris were to have taught elsewhere first, and to have already read the four books of the Sentences 35 • This seems to have been an older tradition, which was still in force in the early fifteenth century 36 • order to teach at the Roman Curia. Then, the Pope continues, he received a complaint from William de Vallerouillonis, to the effect that at the last General Chapter, that of Casale Vercellensis, he had been appointed (before the favor granted Lawrence) to read the Sen– tences at Paris, whereas the favor granted the latter contravened the statutes of the Order and prejudiced the rights of the Ultramontane provinces. The bishop of Beauvais is charged to examine the facts, and should they prove true, recall the permission granted Lawrence (Bull.Franc. VII, [Romae 1904], n.1834, 710-711). The Chartularium reveals that the decision was made in favor of Vaurouillon, since Lawrence became baccalaureus only in 1432 and licensed in 1437 (Chartul.Univ.Paris. IV, 2416 and 2517, p.543 and 602). 29 Cf. H. LEMAITRE, Geographie historique des etablissements de l'ordre de s. Fran9ois en Touraine (ouest de la France) du xiii' au xix' siecle, in Rev. d'Hist.Franc. 6(1929) 299-353. 30 In IV Sent., epilogue, f.315d. 31 Cf. M. BRLEK, O.F.M., De evolutione iuridica studiorum in O.M., Dubrovnik 1942, 29-31. 32 M. BRLEK, op. cit., 34-35. What such a course of studies would be like can be seen in A.L. GABRIEL, O.Praem., The preparatory teaching in the Parisian colleges during the XIVth century, in Rev.Univ.d'Ottawa 21(1951) 449-483. 33 M. BRLEK, op. cit., 68-69, n.298 and 300. 34 E. WEGERICH, Bio-bibliog. Notizen, in Franz.Stud. 29(1942) 193; this was already Pelster's conclusion. 35 Cap. IX, De Studiis, n.14, in M. BIHL, O.F.M., Ordinationes a Benedicto XII pro Fratribus Min. promulgatae per bullam 28 nov. 1336, in Arch.Franc.Hist. 30(1937) 349. 36 Cf. M. BRLEK, op. cit., 48, 60, 78; and M. BIHL, Arch.Franc.Hist. cit., 89; C. PIANA, O.F.M., in Arch.Franc.Hist. 49(1956) 405.