 which confirmed the integration of the Hermits of John the Good (Rule of St. Augustine, 1225), the Hermits of St. William (Rule of St. Benedict), the Hermits of Brettino (Rule of St. Augustine, 1228), the Hermits of Monte Favale (Rule of St. Benedict), other smaller congregations, and the Tuscan Hermits into what was officially called the Order of Hermits of Saint Augustine.Special constitutions were drawn up for its government, on the same lines as the Dominicans and other mendicantsa general elected by chapter, provincials to rule in the different countries, with assistants, definitors and visitors.For this reason, and because almost from the beginning the term "hermits" became a misnomer (for they abandoned the deserts and lived conventionally in towns), they ranked among the friars, and became the fourth of the mendicant orders.