For a great while he was the miller of our monastery, and a man faithful and upright in his conversation.

Afterward he became our porter, and showed himself pitiful and kindly to the poor; but at length, worn out with years, he died in peace, for God had mercy on him: and he was laid in the burying-ground of the Laics.
In the year of the Lord 1469, on the day after the Feast of the Holy Innocents--which day is the Feast of St.Thomas of Canterbury, and falleth within the Octave of the Lord's Nativity--died Brother Gerard that was called Cortbeen, whose death befell after supper, and before the hour of Vespers.

Before he entered the Religious Life he was a Priest, and he was born at Herderwyjc, but for ten years past he had lived the Religious Life amongst us in piety and devotion.

Often he endured much toil in time of harvest, and in winter also he would cut wood in the marshland, for he was a strong man and apt for coarse and heavy toil, yet he neglected not the inner things of God.

At the last he was afflicted of the Lord with a dropsy in the legs, and after bearing the scourge of this infirmity he departed out of this world to the Lord in the forty- second year of his age.