The Grey Friars in Oxford

by A. G. Little

[1690] Reg. A a, fol. 119.

[1691] MS. Cott. Vitell. F XII, fol. 277. ‘Sub secunda parte tercie fenestre jacet Johannes Alen pater Magistri quondam de capella Johannes (sic) ducis Bedfordie et in eodem loco jacent frater Johannes Alen S.T.P. quondam gardianus loci filius Johannis Alen,’ &c.

[1692] Mun. Acad. 683.

[1693] Wadding adds ‘de Traversagnis;’ Script. 160; Ann. Vol. XIV, p. 232.

[1694] Wadding, ibid. and Sup. ad Script. 484.

[1695] Ibid. His connexion with Oxford may be inferred from his Epistola nuncupatoria to Waynflete, in which he speaks of the site, building, library, &c., of Magdalen College, Lambeth MS. 450; Wharton, Anglia Sacra, I, 326.

[1696] See explicit of his Rhetorica (ed. 1480): ‘compilatum autem fuit hoc opus in Alma universitate Cantabrigie, A. D. 1478, die et 6 Julii.’

[1697] Lambeth MS. ut supra.

[1698] Wadding, Script. 161.

[1699] Macray, Annals of the Bodleian, 2nd edition, p. 376, says 1489.