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CHAPTER XXXIV.Whether all ought equally to receive what is needful.As it is written: “Distribution was made to every one, according as he had need.”177 By this, we do not say that there should be acce … read more

CHAPTER XXXIII.Whether monks ought to have anything of their own.Especially let this vice be cut away from the Monastery by the very roots, that no one presume, without leave of the Abbot, to give, or … read more

CHAPTER XXXII.Of the iron tools, or goods of the monastery.For keeping the iron tools, clothes, or other goods belonging to the Monastery, let the Abbot appoint Brethren, of whose life and conversatio … read more

CHAPTER XXXI.What kind of man the Cellarer of the monastery ought to be.Let there be chosen out of the Community as Cellarer of the Monastery, a man who is wise, ripe in manners, and sober; not a gr … read more

CHAPTER XXX.How children are to be corrected.Every age and understanding ought to have a measure of government suitable to it. As often therefore as children, or those under age, commit faults, and … read more