The Grey Friars in OxfordLittle, A. G. (Andrew George)
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The Grey Friars in Oxford
Little, A. G. (Andrew George)
Franciscans -- Great Britain
=Richard Clyff= was custodian in 1465 and 1466. In the latter year he sued
John Broghton, sheriff of Kent for a royal debt. He was sometime
vice-warden of London and was buried in the church of the Minorites
there[863].
=Richard Salford= was warden in 1488 and 1489; he recovered debts from Sir
John Paston, sheriff of Norfolk and Suffolk, and Sir Edmund Bedyngfeld,
sheriff of the same counties; the records of these suits contain the only
notices of him now remaining[864].
=William Vavasor= was studying at Oxford and transcribing philosophical
treatises in 1490 and 1491[865]. He incepted as D.D. in 1500, and was
warden of the convent about the same time[866]. In Thomas Cromwell’s list
of learned persons not living in Oxford (A. D. 1531) is the name of ‘Dr.
Vavysor, Grey Friar at...’[867]. At the dissolution he was warden of the
Grey Friars at York[868], and was one of the few Mendicants who received a
pension; the amount was £5 a year[869].
=Robert Burton= was warden on April 12, 1508, when he applied to the
Chancellor’s Court to recover a debt.
‘Eodem die dedimus terminum domino Joanni Gardener principali aule
bovine ad satisfaciendum fratri Roberto Burton gardiano fratrum
Minorum xxv{s} viii{d} sibi debitos in fine quatuor septimarum,’
&c.[870]
As B.D. he supplicated for D.D. on March 8th, 1507/8 after studying for
twenty years at Oxford and Cambridge, preaching two University sermons at
Oxford, and six at Paul’s Cross, &c.; the grace was conceded on condition
that he should respond once more[871]. Afterwards he became regent of the
Franciscan Schools in London. The register of the Grey Friars, London,
notes among those buried in the chapel of All Saints in the Franciscan
church,
frater Robertus Burton sacre theologie prof(essor quondam) Regens
loci, qui obiit 8{o} die mensis Januarii A. D. 1522[872].
=Walter Goodfield= was warden shortly before 1513; as warden he leased one
of the friary gardens to Ric. Leke, brewer[873]. From the University
Register[874], it appears that on Nov. 27, 1506, he supplicated to be
admitted to opponency and to read the sentences, after studying twelve
years in logic, philosophy, and theology; on May 10, 1507, in making the
same supplication, he stated that he had studied the same subjects
fourteen years. He was admitted to oppose on Dec. 10, 1507. On June 3,
1508, he supplicated as B.D. for D.D.
‘This grace was granted on condition that he has studied twelve years
in logic, philosophy, and theology, and that he proceed before Easter,
and that he preach once ‘_preter formam_,’ after taking his degree,
and read one book of the sentences publicly and gratis.’
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