those who believe in the Trinity; those who do not believe therein, being called antitrinitarians.

Trinitarians also denote an order of religious instituted at Rome in the year 1198, under the pontificate of Innocent III. the founders whereof were John de Matha, and Felix de Valois. His holiness gave them permission to establish this order for the deliverance of captives, who groaned under the tyranny of the infidels: he gave them, as a habit, a white gown ornamented with a red and blue cross. After the death of the two founders, pope Honorius III. continued the order, and their rule was approved by his successor Clement IV. in 1267. At first they were not permitted to eat flesh, and, when they travelled, were to ride only upon asses. But their rule was corrected and mitigated by the bishop of Paris, and the abbot of St. Victor and St. Genevieve, who allowed them to eat any kind of food, and to use horses. This order possesses about two hundred and fifty convents in thirteen different provinces: six of which are in France; namely, France, Normandy, Picardy, Champagne, Languedoc, and Provence; three in Spain, viz., New Castile, Old Castile, and Arragon; one is in Italy, and one in Portugal. There was formerly the province of England, where this order had forty-three houses; that of Scotland, where it had nine; and that of Ireland, where it had fifty-two; besides a great number of monasteries in Saxony, Hungary, Bohemia, and other countries. The convent of Cerfroy in France is head of the order.