| 248 LETTEIIS AND REPORTS those two houses were two Minor Friars as bishops. The one was by name Friar Andrew of Perugia, and the other was by name Friar Peter of Florence.1 That Friar John the archbishop converted a multitude of people to the faith of Jesus Christ. He was a man of very upright life, pleasing to God and men, and stood in high grace with the emperor. The emperor at all times caused him and all his people to be furnished with all that they required ; and much was he beloved by all, pagans as well as Christians. And certes he would have converted that whole country to the Christian Catholic faith, if the Nestorians, those false Christians and real miscreants, had not hindered him and done him hurt. The said archbishop was at great pains with those Nestorians to bring them under the obedience of our mother the holy Church of Rome ; for without this obedience, he told them, they could not be saved. And for this cause those Nestorian schismatics held him in great hate. This archbishop, as it hath pleased God, is lately passed from this world. To his obsequies and burial there came a very great multitude of people, both Christians and pagans. And those pagans rent their mourning garments as their manner is ; and both Christians and pagans devoutly laid hold of the clothes of the archbishop, and carried them off as reliques with great reverence. So there he was buried with great honour, after the manner of faithful Christians. And they still visit the place of his interment with very great devotion. 9. Concerning the Schismatics or Nestorian Christians who dwell in that country. In the said city of Cambalec there is a manner of schismatic Christians whom they call Nestorians. They follow the manner and fashion of the Greeks, and are not obedient One of the second batch of bishops, sent to the East in 1312. | 
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