own house; and our author tells the story of that part of his life thus:
" In this house some twenty priests lived together in community. , . . There were also three lay-brothers, of whom one was the procurator and did the marketing, one was in charge of the kitchen, and the third mended the clothes."[1] " Here I learnt to write neatly, and studied Holy Scripture, moral philosophy, and the practice of devout meditation. . . . What I earned as a copyist I made over to the common purse, and all that I needed was provided for me by my beloved Master Florentius, who was like a father to me in all things."
In the year 1 399, moved thereto by a dream and by the advice of the saintly Florentius, he sought admission to the newly established monastery of Agnetenberg,[2] of which his brother was then
- ↑ " Life of Arnold Schoenhoven," § 2.
- ↑ Agnetenberg is a small wooded eminence some two miles to the north-east of Zwolle. The monastery was founded in a.d. 1398. In a.d. 1559 its revenues were appropriated to the endowment of the newly established bishopric of Deventer. In a.d. 1573 the few monks who had remained there were driven out, and the monastery was demolished by the Dutch soldiers then fighting the Spaniards. In a.d. 1581 its ruins and what was left of its belongings were granted by the States-General to the province of Overyssel. No trace of the monastery remains: what is supposed to have been its site is now a cemetery, and close to it is a small inn which is a favourite summer afternoon resort of people from Zwolle.
