The Grey Friars in Oxford :: TABLE OF CONTENTS.

TABLE OF CONTENTS.

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PART I. HISTORY OF THE CONVENT.
CHAPTER I. EARLY YEARS.
Arrival and first settlement of the Franciscan Friars at Oxford		1
Their early poverty and cheerfulness		3
Oxford Friars as peacemakers and Crusaders		7
Relations to the University and to the earliest Colleges		8
Their strict observance of the Rule		10

CHAPTER II. PROPERTY AND BUILDINGS.
First settlement of the Friars was within the City Wall		12
They acquire the houses of William, son of Richard de Wileford (1229), and Robert, son of Robert Oen		13
Increase of the area in 1244-1245		14
Grants from the King, Thomas de Valeynes, and others		15
The island in the Thames, 1245		16
Messuage of Laurence Wych, Mayor of Oxford, 1246		17
Friars of the Sack settle in Oxford		17
Their property granted to the Minorites by Boniface VIII, Clement V, and Edward II, 1310		18
Grants from various persons, 1310		19
Inquisitiones ad quod Damnum, concerning properties belonging to Richard Cary and John Culvard, 1319		19
Grants by Walter Morton (1321) and John de Grey de Rotherfield (1337)		20
To what classes did the donors belong?		20
Buildings of the Grey Friars, absence of information about		21
Original houses and chapel		21
School built by Agnellus		21
The stricter Friars oppose the tendency to build		22
Building of the new Church of St. Francis		22
Its site and appearance		23
William of Worcester’s description of it		24
Monuments and tombs in the Church		24
Grave of Roger Bacon		26
Cloisters, Chapter-house, Refectory, and other buildings		27
Conduit and Gates		28

CHAPTER III. FRANCISCAN SCHOOLS AT OXFORD.
Learning necessary to the Friars		29
The first readers or lectors to the Franciscans at Oxford		30
Nature of the office of lector, as understood by Grostete and Adam Marsh		31
The lector and his socius		33
Later lectors were ordinary Regent Masters in Theology		34
Appointment to the office of lector		34
Special regulations con		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
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