Auferte malum ex vobis . For various and heinous are the acts of transgression against the rule of our blessed Order in this lamentable history.⁠—1st, He hath walked according to his proper will, contrary to capital 33, Quod nullus juxta propriam voluntatem incedat .⁠—2nd, He hath held communication with an excommunicated person, capital 57, Ut fratres non participent cum excommunicatis , and therefore hath a portion in Anathema Maranatha .⁠—3rd, He hath conversed with strange women, contrary to the capital, Ut fratres non conversantur cum extraneis mulieribus .⁠—4th, He hath not avoided, nay, he hath, it is to be feared, solicited the kiss of woman; by which, saith the last rule of our renowned Order, Ut fugiantur oscula , the soldiers of the Cross are brought into a snare. For which heinous and multiplied guilt, Brian de Bois-Guilbert should be cut off and cast out from our congregation, were he the right hand and right eye thereof.”

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