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
MS. Paris:--Bibl. Nat. 3183 (sec. xiv); containing the questions,
_Utrum theologia sit prae ceteris Scientiis necessaria Praelatis
Ecclesiae_, and, _Utrum theologia ex duobus componi debuerit
Testamentis_. Cf. MSS. ibid. 15805, _Quodlibeta S. Thome, J. de
Pechan, Guil. de Hozon_; and 15986, f. 238 (sec. xiii), _Responsio ad
questionem Joh. de Peschant_.
_Tractatus Fratris Joannis Pecham Ord. Min. contra Fratrem Rogerium (Ord.
Praed.) obloquentem contra suum Ordinem_ (called by Tanner, _Contra
Priorem Cisterciensium_). _Inc._ ‘Super tribus et super quatuor
sceleribus.’
MS. Florence:--Laurentiana, _ex Bibl. S. Crucis_, Plut. XXXVI. Dext.
Cod. xii. p. 25 (sec. xiv. exeuntis).
_Formula confessionum._ _Inc._ ‘Sicut dicit b. Joannes.’
MS. Florence:--Laurentiana, _ex Bibl. S. Crucis_, Plut. IV. Sinist.
Cod. xi (A. D. 1433).
_Scriptum super Ethicam._
MS. Florence:--Laurentiana, _ex Bibl. S. Crucis_, Plut. XII. Sinist.
Cod. xi.
12. =Henry de Apeltre= was the twelfth reader at Oxford, and seventeenth
master of the Friars Minors at Cambridge. Nothing more is known about
him[1039].
13. =Robert Cross= or =Crouche=[1040] (de Cruce) must have lectured at
Oxford about 1280. In April of that year Peckham forbade an Oxford
Dominican to visit a certain ‘college of women’ on account of grave
suspicion, on the accusation of Friar Robert de Cruce[1041]. Leland states
that he was immersed in philosophical studies to an advanced age, and when
at last he betook himself to theology he showed greater skill in
investigating speculative subtleties than in exploring the literal sense;
the statement might be made with equal truth of most of the scholastics.
He became Provincial Minister soon after 1280. The successor of John
Peckham, Hugh of Bath, died within a short time of his appointment, and
was succeeded by Robert Cross as eleventh minister[1042]. He held the
office in June 1284, when he obtained for the English Minorites exemption
from the payment of a custom due to the King from all who passed to or
from the Continent by the port of Dover[1043]. In Sept. of the same year
he held a chapter of the English Franciscans[1044]; and in March 1285, he
represented the English Province at the General Chapter of Milan[1045]. He
may have resigned the dignity at this Chapter; on Oct. 31, 1285, Peckham
addresses a letter to ‘W., Provincial Minister of the Friars Minors’; this
must be William of Gainsborough[1046]. Robert Cross was buried at
Bridgwater[1047]. None of his works remain. Leland mentions his
commentaries on the _Physics_ and the _Sentences_, on the authority of the
Catalogue of Illustrious Franciscans.
14. =R. de Toftis=, called by Wood, Radulphus de Toftis.
15. =Alanus de Rodano.=
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