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
Oxford:--Balliol Coll. 28 (A. D. 1442).
Lincoln:--Cathedral Libr. (Haenel p. 799), ‘Thomas Bockering.’
_Comment. on Isaiah._
MS. Oxford:--Ball. Coll. 29 (sec. xv).
_Expositio super Epistolas S. Pauli._
MSS. Oxford:--Ball. Coll. 30 (sec. xv), containing Galatians,
Ephesians[1005], Hebrews.
Magd. Coll. 154, Galatians, imperf. (sec. xv).
_Lectura super Apocalypsin_, doubtfully ascribed to him.
MS. Oxford:--Ball. Coll. 149 f. 107. _Inc._ ‘Panis ei datus. Querit
propheta.’
_Expositio Decalogi._ _Inc._ ‘Non habebis deos alienos in conspectu meo.
Hoc est in corde.’
MS. Bodl. 2403 (= T. Bodley *NE*. F. 4. 9), now Bodley 453, f.
57-90[1006].
_Questions on St. Luke._
MS. Paris:--Bibl. Nationale, 3183, § 8 (sec. xiv).
_Questio utrum Job in prosperis fuerit altior coram Deo quam in adversis._
MS. Ibid. § 11 (sec. xiv).
_Comment. super Sententias_, mentioned in the Catalogue of Illustrious
Franciscans (Leland)[1007].
8. =H. de Brisingham=[1008] is probably the same as
‘Frater Henricus Lector Oxoniensis Fratrum Minorum,’
who composed a _Summa de Sacramentis_ in 1261[1009]. He afterwards became
thirteenth master of the Friars Minors at Cambridge[1010]. Blomefield
claims him as a Norfolk man, and says that he died about 1280[1011]. He is
perhaps to be identified with ‘_Henricus de Oxonio Chordigerae sectae_’,
whose sermons were seen by Bale in the Franciscan Library at
Reading[1012].
The _De Sacramentis Summa_ is his only extant work.
MS. Bodl. Laud. Misc. 2, f. 130 (sec. xiv. ineuntis).
9. =William of Heddele= (Durham or Northumberland?) is mentioned by Adam
Marsh in a letter to the Provincial, c. 1253, as ‘your desirable son Friar
William de Hedele[1013].’ We know from another source that Heddele was
reader at Oxford in 1269, when he took part in the controversy with the
Friars Preachers[1014]. When Prince Edward went to the Holy Land,
‘he took with him,’ in the words of the so-called Lanercost
Chronicle[1015], ‘the reader and master of the Friars Minors at
Oxford, Friar William de Hedley, a man beloved of God and in favour
with men.’
The chronicler puts these events in the year 1266. Edward took the cross
in 1268 and sailed in 1270. Friar William died on the outward voyage in
the sea of Greece:
‘his corpse,’ continues the same authority ‘being given to the waves
as the custom is, followed the course of the ships for three days,
until, at Edward’s command, it was taken again into the vessel and
afterwards committed to the earth.’
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