T HERE can be little doubt that the writer of this treatise was a disciple of Richard Rolle, who is writing shortly after the latter's death in 1349. What he says of "other holy men of right late time, which lived a well holy life, and took their livelihood as feebleness of man asketh now in our days," exactly tallies with what we can learn of this group of wandering hermits. Moreover, in the following sentence there is an unmistakable reference to Rolle's book, "The Fire- of Love": Some of these men, as I have heard and read, were visited by the grace of God with a passing sweetness of love...