The Grey Friars in Oxford

by A. G. Little

[1822] Acta Cur. Cancell. EEE, f. 274.

[1823] Cal. of State Papers, IX, 645.

[1824] Ibid. 1120.

[1825] Ibid. XII, ii, 282.

[1826] Reg. H. 7, f. 110, June 8; Boase calls him Robert Kyrkeham in this place (pp. 131, and 118).

[1827] Reg. H. 7, f. 104 b, 156 b, 160 b, 180 b; App. D.

[1828] Eighth Report of the Deputy Keeper, App. II, p. 19. See will of Thomas Strey, lawyer of Doncaster (Nov. 14, 1530), in Testamenta Eboracensia (Surtees Society), Vol. V, pp. 294-7: ‘Item I bequeth to Master Doctor of Grey Freres xxvj^s viij^d to bie hym a cotte.... Theis beyng witnes of this my said will, Sir Thomas Kirkham, doctor of dyvinyte and warden of the Freres Minours in Doncaster’ (and three others).

[1829] Wood, Fasti, 75.

[1830] According to Newcourt (Repert. II, 174) this living was vacant by his death before Jan. 22, 1551. There may have been two of the same name. Sir Thomas Kyrkeham, priest, was among those arrested for conspiring at the Grey Friars London to refuse a subsidy to the King in 1531. Foxe, V, 57.

[1831] Newcourt, I, 419.