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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] |
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| [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] |
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| [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 concerning the lectors | [36] |
| System of instruction in theology recommended by Grostete | [36] |
| Lectures by the Friars | [37] |
| Controversy with the University about theological degrees in 1253 | [38] |
| Controversy between the University and the Dominicans | [39] |
| Study of Arts (philosophy) before Theology, insisted on by the University | [41] |
| Roger Bacon on the need for some preliminary training for the Friars | [42] |
| Extortion of graces by external influence; ‘wax-doctors’ | [42] |
| Career of a student Minorite | [43] |
| On the numbers of Friars sent to Oxford | [43] |
| Course of study before ‘opposition’ | [44] |
| ‘Opposition’ and ‘Responsion’ | [45] |
| The degree of Bachelor of Divinity | [46] |
| Exercises before ‘Inception’ | [47] |
| ‘Vesperies’ and Inception | [48] |
| Questions disputed on these occasions in the thirteenth century | [49] |
| How far were the statutable requirements as to the period of study really carried out? | [49] |
| Expenses at Inception | [50] |
| Necessary Regency | [52] |
| Conditions on which dispensations were granted | [52] |
| Maintenance of Franciscan students at the University | [53] |
| What proportion took degrees | [54] |
| Relative numbers of the various Religious Orders at Oxford | [54] |
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| [CHAPTER IV.] BOOKS AND LIBRARIES. |
| Absence of privacy in a Franciscan Friary | [55] |
| Books of individual Friars | [56] |
| The two libraries, and their contents | [57] |
| Grostete’s bequest of books | [57] |
| Extant MSS. formerly in the Franciscan Convent | [59] |
| Alleged illegal detention of books by the Friars in 1330 | [60] |
| Richard Fitzralph’s statements | [60] |
| Richard of Bury, on the libraries of Mendicant Friars | [61] |
| Dispersion of the books of the Oxford Franciscans | [61] |
| Leland’s description of the library in his time | [62] |
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| [CHAPTER V.] PLACE OF OXFORD IN THE FRANCISCAN ORGANIZATION. |
| Learned Friars as practical workers among the people | [63] |
| Their Sermons | [64] |
| Educational organization throughout the country | [64] |
| Relations of the Franciscan School at Oxford to the other Franciscan Schools of Europe | [66] |
| English Franciscans teach in foreign Universities | [67] |
| Oxford as the head convent of a custodia | [68] |
| Provincial Chapters held at Oxford | [69] |
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| [CHAPTER VI.] RIVALRY BETWEEN THE ORDERS: ATTACKS ON THE FRIARS. |
| Rivalry between the Friars Preachers and Minors: proselytism | [71] |
| Politics and Philosophy | [72] |
| Peckham and the Oxford Friars | [73] |
| Evangelical Poverty | [75] |
| Contrast between theory and practice | [78] |
| Attack on the Friars by Richard Fitzralph | [79] |
| Charge of stealing children | [79] |
| Wiclif’s early relations to the Friars | [81] |
| His attack on them in his later years | [82] |
| Charges of gross immorality made not by Wiclif, but by his followers | [83] |
| The University and the Friars; summary of events in 1382 | [84] |
| Unpopularity of the Friars in the fifteenth century | [85] |
| Foreign Minorites expelled from Oxford | [86] |
| Conspiracies against Henry IV; part taken by the Oxford Franciscans | [87] |
| Relations between the Conventual and Observant Franciscans | [87] |
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| [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] |
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| [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] |
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| [PART II.] BIOGRAPHICAL AND BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES OF INDIVIDUAL FRIARS. |
| [CHAPTER I.] |
| Custodians and Wardens | [125-133] |
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| [CHAPTER II.] |
| Lectors or Regent Masters of the Franciscans | [134-175] |
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| [CHAPTER III.] |
| Franciscans who studied in the Convent at Oxford, or had some other connexion with the Town or the University | [176-294] |
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| 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] |
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| [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] |
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| [C.] Controversy between the Friars Preachers and Friars Minors at Oxford, 1269 | [320] |
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| [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] |
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| INDEX | [341] |