Henry Malmesbury, citizen of Oxford, left them 20s. in 1361[672].
John de Bereford[673], citizen and sometime Mayor of Oxford, bequeathed 13s. 4d. to each of the Orders in 1361,
‘ut habeant animam meam inter eorum missas recommendatam.... Item, cuilibet ordini fratrum predicatorum Minorum Carmelitarum et Augustinensium Oxon’, die sepulture mee 2s. 6d., et in die commemorationis anime mee in mensem 2s. 6d., et die anniversarii mei 2s. 6d.’
Humphrey de Bohun, Earl of Hereford and Essex (who died 1361), devised
‘to the students of each house of the four orders of Mendicants in Oxford and Cambridge £10 to pray for us[674].’
Richard Bramptone, butcher of Oxford, in 1362, left 10s. to be divided equally among the four Orders of friars[675].
Walter de Berney[676], a wealthy citizen of London, with apparently no near relations, was a benefactor: his will, made in 1377, contains, among many similar bequests, the following:
‘Item fratribus minoribus Oxon’ et Cantebrig’ equaliter x li.’
Richard Carsewell, butcher of Oxford, in 1389 left the house in which he lived, ‘without the South Gate of Oxford toward Grantpounde,’ to his executors, with instructions to sell it
‘and to distribute to the poor friars minors of the money received for the said tenement, ten marks[677].’