The Grey Friars in Oxford

by A. G. Little

Rex Thesaurario et Camerario, etc. Liberate[1946] Johanni Marscallo nostro xj^li ij^d pro iiij equis emptis ad opus nostrum et liberatis per preceptum nostrum iiij^or fratribus ordinis predicatorum et minorum euntibus in nuncium ad partes transmarinas, et lxix^s vij^d obolum pro expensis eorundem equorum et garcionum custodientium eos per xxxv dies. Liberate etiam eidem Johanni lxvj^s ix^d pro hernesiis emptis ad opus fratrum predictorum.... Teste ut supra (Rege apud Westm’ xxi die Dec.).

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The Church of the Minorites used as a Sanctuary, A. D. 1284-5.

Assize Roll 710, m. 55[1947].

Adam de Kydmersford posuit se in Ecclesiam fratrum minorum Oxon’ et cognouit se esse latronem de pluribus latrociniis et abiurauit regnum coram Coronatore. Nulla habuit catalla.

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Royal grant of 50 marcs, 1289.

Exchequer, Queen’s Remembrancer, Wardrobe Acc^{ts 4}⁄7, Anno 17-18, Edw. I.

This is the earliest mention which I have found of the annual grant of 50 marks to the Oxford Minorites. After reciting the similar grant to the Friars Preachers, the record goes on (11th October):—

Et ffratribus Minoribus Oxon’, percipientibus similiter annuatim a Rege in subsidium sustentacionis L marcas, scilicet eodem modo ad duos terminos pro Elemosina Regis predicti; de termino Sancti Michaelis anno presenti per manus ffratrum Johannis de Bekinkham et Johannis de Clara, xvi^li xiij^s iiij^d.