Chapter VII: Illustrations of the Friars’ Manner of Life and Means

OF LIVELIHOOD: BENEFACTORS.
On the loss of Franciscan Records 89
Mendicancy as a means of livelihood 91
Procurators and limitors 92
Career of Friar Brian Sandon, legal _syndicus_ of the Oxford
Friary in the sixteenth century 93
Charges of immorality against the Friars 94
Their worldly manner of life before the Dissolution 96
Poverty of the Convent 97
Sources of income 97
Annual grants from the King and others 97
Frequency of bequests to the Friars 100
List of benefactors 102
Some other sources of income 110
Classes from which the Friars were drawn 111
Motives which led men to enter the Order 111

CHAPTER VIII. THE DISSOLUTION.
Attitude of the Grey Friars towards the Reformation in its
intellectual, religious, and political aspects 112
The Royal Divorce 114
Visitation of Oxford University in 1535 116
Suppression of the Friaries in 1538 116
Condition of the Grey Friary 117
Expulsion of the Friars; their subsequent history; Simon Ludford 119
Houses and site of the Grey Friars 120
Dr. London tries to secure the land for the town 121
Lease and sale of the property 121
Notes on its subsequent history 123
Total destruction of the buildings 124

PART II. BIOGRAPHICAL AND BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES OF INDIVIDUAL FRIARS.

CHAPTER I.
Custodians and Wardens 125-133

CHAPTER II.
Lectors or Regent Masters of the Franciscans 134-175