Chapter III

Franciscans who studied in the Convent at Oxford, or had
some other connexion with the Town or the University 176-294

APPENDICES OF ORIGINAL DOCUMENTS.

=A. Documents relating to the acquisition of land property by the
Grey Friars.=

1. Grant of a house by William, son of Richard de Wileford 295

2. Grant of a house by Robert, son of Robert Oen, 1236 296

3. Royal license to enclose their possessions and throw down
part of the old City Wall, 1244 296

4. Island in the Thames acquired by Henry III, 1245 297

5. Grant of the same island to the Friars, 1245 297

6. Grant of two messuages by Thomas de Valeynes, 1245 298

7. Grant of a messuage by Laurence Wych, Mayor of Oxford, 1246 299

8. License to enclose their new possessions; the City Wall to
be repaired, 1248 299

9. Royal grants to the Friars of the Sack, 1262, 1265 300

10. Grants to the Friars Minors from various persons, 1310 301

11. Property of the Friars of the Sack conferred on the Friars
Minors, 1310 301

12. Re-grant of the same property to them, 1319 302

13. Inquiry held at Oxford in 1319 as to the advisability of
allowing John Culvard to grant a parcel of ground to the
Friars Minors 303

14. Grant of a parcel of ground by John de Grey de Rotherfield 305

=B. Miscellaneous Documents.=

1. Food for the Friars Minors and others, 1244 307

2. Adam Marsh as royal _nuncius_, 1247 307

3. For the same, 1257 308

4. The Church of the Minorites used as a Sanctuary, 1284-5 308

5. Royal grant of 50 marcs, 1289 308

6. Decree of the General Chapter at Paris, 1292 309

7. Royal grant of 50 marcs, 1323 309

8. ‘Receptor Denariorum’ of the Grey Friars, 1341 310

9. Goods and chattels of Friar John Welle, S.T.P., 1378 311

10. Expulsion of foreign Minorites, 1388 312

11. William Woodford; confirmation of his privileges by
Boniface IX, 1396 312

12. Appointment of a lecturer to the Convent at Hereford,
c. 1400 313

13. Decree of the General Chapter at Florence, 1467 314

14. Recovery of debt from a Sheriff, 1488 315

15. Documents relating to the lease of a garden at the Grey
Friars to Richard Leke, 1513-1514 316

16. Extracts from the Will of Richard Leke, 1526 318

17. An ex-warden called to account, 1529 318

=C. Controversy between the Friars Preachers and Friars Minors
at Oxford, 1269= 320

=D. Supplications and Graces from the Registers of Congregation.=
John David, 1450/1, 1454/5 336
John Sunday, 1453/4 336
Richard Ednam, 1462, 1463 336
Walter Goodfeld, 1506-1510 337
John Thornall, 1525 338
Thomas Kirkham, 1527 338

INDEX 341

CORRIGENDA.

P. 6, _n._ 5, _for_ tempora, _read_ temporalem.

P. 33. There was no house of Grey Friars at Evesham. Simon de Montfort was buried by the monks of Evesham (_see_ Rishanger). The _Miracula Symonis de Montfort_, however, bears evident traces of Franciscan influence.

P. 49, _n._ 3, _for_ Church, Quarterly Review, _read_ Church Quarterly Review.

P. 54, _l._ 11, _for_ because, _read_ became.

P. 56, _n._ 5 _for_ quos, _read_ quas.

THE GREY FRIARS IN OXFORD.

_PART I._

_HISTORY OF THE CONVENT, A. D. 1224-1538._