Silence After the Clamors

to slander the same; these are answered in this chapter.

Chapter XVIII.

Some also send letters to the Fraternity, in which they ask either to be accepted into their society, or to be healed of their diseases, or to be visited at a certain place, and to be answered to their requests and questions; and when they cannot obtain this, they think they have thereby gained new reasons to slander.

Chapter XIX.

Some impostors also tend to use this order to beautify themselves, and under such a pretext to cheat the simple-minded out of money, and also very often to commit great misdeeds under such a pretext, who, now being found to be impostors, thieves, or murderers, should rightly be subjected to appropriate punishment.