Adam Marsh, though in somewhat general terms, gives a far more flattering account of Richard[981].
Martin de Sancta Cruce, Master of the Hospital of Sherbourne, bequeathed to him in his will dated November, 1259, _unum habitum integrum_, and a copy of the Canonical Epistles[982].
Assisi MS. 176 contains a compilation ascribed by a note in a late hand to ‘Master Richard Rufus of England;’ the volume was in the possession of the friars at Assisi in 1373, consists of 226 leaves, and seems to contain more than one treatise: it is not rubricated.
_Inc._ ‘Deus autem qui dives est in misericordia propter nimiam caritatem suam.’
6. =John Wallensis= was B.D. of Oxford before he entered the Order[983]. He must have become D.D. and regent master of the Franciscan schools at Oxford before 1260[984]. It was probably after this that he went as lecturer to Paris, where he was honoured with the title of _Arbor Vitae_[985], and where he was buried[986]. But before his death he was again in England. In October, 1282, ‘Friar John Wallensis, S.T.D.,’ was sent by Archbishop Peckham as ambassador to the insurgent Welsh[987]. In 1283 he was one of the five doctors at Paris who were deputed to examine the doctrines of Peter John Olivi[988]. He enjoyed a great reputation as a theologian, and the widespread and lasting popularity of his works is shown by the large number of MSS. and printed editions which have come down to us. His writings are specially illustrative of the practical side of the Franciscan teaching.
_Summa de Penitentia._ _Inc._ ‘Quoniam provida solertia est.’
MSS. Brit. Museum: Royal 10 A ix. f. 1-50 b (sec. xiii); 4 D iv. fol. 244 b (sec. xv)[989].
Paris:--Bibl. Mazarine, 569, f. 86 b (sec. xiv).
Falaise:--Bibl. Publ. 38, p. 372 (sec. xiv).
Cf. Worcester Cathed. Libr. MS. 114 (= 789) ‘Jo. Wallensis ordinis Praedicatorum summa de confessione[990].’
_Breviloquium de quatuor virtutibus cardinalibus,_ or, _de virtutibus antiquorum principum et philosophorum_: four or five parts:
i. De justitia; ii. De prudentia; iii. De temperantia; iv. De fortitudine; v. De ordinatione virtutum (this is sometimes included in part iv). _Inc. prol._ ‘Quoniam misericordia et veritas.’
MSS. Brit. Mus.: Royal 10 A ix., f. 67 b-99 (sec. xiii); 12 E xxi, § 2, (sec. xv); Burney 360, f. 1 (sec. xv); Harleian 632, f. 25 (sec. xv).