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
On March 19, 1509/10, he was allowed to count a sermon to be preached on
Ash Wednesday as his examinatory sermon. On May 12, 1510, he was licensed
in theology. On June 27, 1510, he was dispensed ‘_pro suis lecturis
minutis_.’ On July 1, he was admitted D.D.; on Oct. 28, 1510, he was with
three others appointed a judge to examine a sentence passed on Thomas
Foster by the commissary[875]; and on Dec. 10, he was dispensed from his
necessary regency, possibly owing to his duties as warden. He seems to
have become warden of the London convent after this[876]. He died on the
6th of May, 1521, and was buried in the chapel of All Saints, in the Grey
Friars Church, London[877].
=John Harvey= succeeded Goodfield as warden; he held the office in Feb.
1513/4[878], Feb. 1514/5[879], and probably for many years afterwards. He
had ceased to be warden in 1529, when he was required by the vice-warden
or sub-warden John Bacheler, in the name of the then warden, to answer
certain charges made against him respecting his administration[880]. The
following details are known about his scholastic career; he was admitted
to oppose in theology Dec. 6, 1514, and admitted B.D. on Jan. 20, 1514/5;
he was still B.D. in 1529; one of the same name took the degree of B. Can.
L. on April 3, 1530, but he is not described as a friar[881].
=Edward Baskerfild= was probably the immediate successor of John Harvey.
In Jan. 1527/8 he held some office, being then ‘in London on the business
of his house’ and likely to stay there some months[882]; he is described
as warden in 1533, as _custos fratrum minorum Universitatis Oxon’_ in
1534[883], and he was warden at the time of the dissolution.
He supplicated for B.D. on April 12, 1526, after
‘studying logic, philosophy, and theology for thirteen years, and
preaching some sermons at Exeter and Oxford,’
was admitted to oppose on June 13, and became B.D. on Feb. 18,
1526/7[884]. He supplicated for D.D. on Dec. 9, 1531, and March 5, 1531/2,
after sixteen years’ study; and became D.D. on July 8, 1532[885]. He had
previously obtained a reduction of his composition on inception first to
five, and then to four marks;
‘Causa est quod est pauperior quam ut possit eam summam pecunie
(quinque marcas) solvere[886].’
In Oct. 1532, he was dispensed from his necessary regency. In 1533 we find
him at Exeter, trying to extract from Thomas Benet a recantation of his
heresies[887].
He acted as deputy of the commisary, or vice-chancellor, in 1534, 1535,
1536, and 1537[888]. In this capacity he sometimes held his court in the
Franciscan convent, as, for instance, when investigating the charges of
immorality against Friar Arthur[889]. His pecuniary position seems to have
improved: he kept a horse in 1534[890], and in 1537, one Robert Symon was
admitted to the privileges of the University as servant of Dr.
Baskerfild[891].
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