The following names of Oxford men educated at monkish or friars’ schools, or of their bodies, occur in the first volume of Wood’s Athenæ Oxon., ed. Bliss:

p. 6, col. 2.William Beeth, educated among the Dominicans or Black Friers from his youth, and afterwards their provincial master or chief governor.
p. 7, col. 2.Richard Bardney, a Benedictine of Lincolnshire.
p. 11, col. 2.John Sowle, a Carme of London.
p. 14, col. 1.William Galeon, an Austin friar of Lynn Regis.
p. 18, col. 2.Henry Bradshaw, one of the Benedictine monks of St Werberg’s, Chester.
p. 19, col. 1.John Harley, of the order of the Preaching or Dominican, commonly called Black, Friars
p. 54, col. 2.Thomas Spenser, a Carthusian at Henton in Somersetshire; ‘whence for a time he receded to Oxford (as several of his order did) to improve himself, or to pass a course, in theology.’
p. 94, col. 2.John Kynton, a Minorite or Grey-friar
p. 101, col. 1.John Rycks, „ „
p. 107, col. 1.John Forest, a Franciscan of Greenwich.
p. 189, col. 1.John Griffen, a Cistercian.
p. 278, col. 2.Cardinal Pole, educated among the Carthusians, and Carmelites or ‘White-fryers.’
p. 363, col. 2.William Barlowe, an Austin of St Osith in Essex.
p. 630, col. 2.Henry Walpoole and Richard Walpoole, Jesuits.

The 5th Lord Percy, he of the Household Book, in the year 1520 founded an annual stipend of 10 marcs for 3 years, for a Pedagogus sive Magister, docens ac legens Grammaticam et Philosophiam canonicis et fratribus of the monastery of Alnwick (Warton, ii. 492).

[50.] It was customary then at Oxford for the Religious to have schools that bore the name of their respective orders; as the Augustine, Benedictine, Carmelite, and Franciscan schools; and there were schools also appropriated to the benefit of particular Religious houses, as the Dorchester and Eynsham schools, &c. The monks of Gloucester had Gloucester convent, and the novices of Pershore an apartment in the same house. So likewise the young monks of Canterbury, Westminster, Durham, St Albans, &c. Kennet’s Paroch. Antiq., p. 214. So also Leland saith, Itin. vol. vi. p. 28, that at Stamford the names of Peterborough Hall, Semplingham, and Vauldey yet remain, as places whither the Religious of those houses sent their scholars to study. Tanner, Notitia Monastica, Preface, p. xxvi. note w.

[51.] The abuse was of far earlier date than this. Compare Mr Halliwell’s quotation in his ‘Merton Statutes,’ from his edition of ‘the Poems of John Awdelay, the blind poet of Haghmon Monastery in the 14th century,’

Now ȝif a pore mon set hys son to Oxford to scole,

Bothe the fader and the moder hyndryd they schal be;

And ȝif ther falle a benefyse, hit schal be ȝif a fole,

To a clerke of a kechyn, ore into the chaunceré . .

Clerkys that han cunyng,