=D. Supplications and Graces from the Registers of Congregation.= John David, 1450/1, 1454/5 336 John Sunday, 1453/4 336 Richard Ednam, 1462, 1463 336 Walter Goodfeld, 1506-1510 337 John Thornall, 1525 338 Thomas Kirkham, 1527 338 INDEX 341 CORRIGENDA. P. 6, _n._ 5, _for_ tempora, _read_ temporalem. P. 33. There was no house of Grey Friars at Evesham. Simon de Montfort was buried by the monks of Evesham (_see_ Rishanger). The _Miracula Symonis de Montfort_, however, bears evident traces of Franciscan influence. P. 49, _n._ 3, _for_ Church, Quarterly Review, _read_ Church Quarterly Review. P. 54, _l._ 11, _for_ because, _read_ became. P. 56, _n._ 5 _for_ quos, _read_ quas. THE GREY FRIARS IN OXFORD. _PART I._ _HISTORY OF THE CONVENT, A. D. 1224-1538._ CHAPTER I. EARLY YEARS. Arrival of the Franciscans at Oxford.--Their early Poverty, and Cheerfulness.--Oxford Friars as Peacemakers, and Crusaders.--Relations to the University, and to the first Colleges.--Their strict observance of the Rule. The Franciscans first arrived in England in 1224[3]. On Tuesday, the 10th of September in that year (to follow the account of Friar Thomas Eccleston, the earliest historian of the Order in this country), a company of nine friars, four of them clerks and five laymen, landed at Dover, under the leadership of Agnellus of Pisa, the first Provincial Minister. After staying two days at Canterbury, four of them proceeded to London; and at the end of the month, two of these, Friar Richard of Ingeworth and Friar Richard of Devon, set out for Oxford. It is perhaps to this place that the well-known story told by Bartholomew of Pisa properly belongs[4]. As they neared Oxford they were stopped by the floods, and finding themselves at nightfall ‘in a vast wood which lies between Bath and Oxford,’ they sought refuge ‘for the love of God’ at a grange belonging to the monks of Abingdon, ‘lest they should perish from hunger or the wild beasts in the forest.’ The prior, judging them to be jesters[5], had them turned out; but a young monk, when the rest had gone to bed, put them into a hayloft and brought them bread and beer. That night he had a dream. The prior and his brethren were summoned before the judgment-seat of Christ; and