He became fourteenth Provincial Minister, in succession to Roger Marston. The date of his appointment or election is uncertain. In April 1299[1064], we hear of him going as Provincial, with Friar W. of Gainsborough as his _socius_, to the General Chapter at Lyons; on this occasion the King gave to the two friars 10 marks. In 1300 (Aug. 7) at Dorchester (Oxon), he chose twenty-two friars of the Oxford convent and presented them to Dalderby, Bishop of Lincoln[1065], with the request that he would license them to hear confessions. The bishop asked ‘whether he was presenting them for all the convents in the diocese of Lincoln,’ and, finding that it was only for the Oxford convent, refused to license more than four. At length a compromise was effected, and eight of the friars were licensed to hear confessions in the archdeaconry of Oxford. In 1301[1066], Hugh was again abroad, probably at the General Chapter at Genoa. In Sept. 1302, he was, with W. of Gainsborough and others, sent as ambassador to the Court of Rome to negotiate for peace with the King of France[1067]. While in Italy on this mission, he attended the General Chapter at Assisi[1068]; he probably did not return to England, as we are told that he was ‘buried among the friars at Assisi[1069].’ 21. =John de Persora= or =Pershore= (c. 1390) called in the Assisi MS. John de Persole (see above, under Hertepol). 22. =John of Berwick= lectured at Oxford before the end of the thirteenth century. He was buried at Stamford. Bale identifies him with a Brenlanlius who is referred to by John Pico de Mirandola in his treatise _contra Astrologos_. _Joannis Anglici Ordinis Minorum Summa Astrologiae Judicialis, quae anglicana vulgo nuncupatur_ (doubtful). MS. Florence:--Laurentiana, in Plut. XXIX (Montfaucon, p. 237, 299). Printed at Venice 1489, under the name of Joannes Eschvid (_i.e._ Eshendon or Ashendon; see MS. Bodl. 3467, p. 91). _Questiones Joannis de Beroyko de Ordine Fratrum Minorum de Formis._ MS. Venice:--Bibl. S. Anton. (Tomasin, p. 9). Leland adds: ‘Collaudat eruditorum Index Franciscanorum ejus _In longobardum elucubrationes_[1070].’ 23. =Thomas of Barneby=, wrongly called by Brewer ‘Johannes de Barneby,’ is identified by Wood, without much probability, with the first Senior Dean of Merton College, who was appointed by Kilwardby in 1276[1071]. He is mentioned in a record dated March 20, 1326, as ‘master of the Friars Minors[1072].’ 24. =Adam of Lincoln=, D.D. and regent master of the Franciscans at Oxford, succeeded Hugh of Hertepol as fifteenth Provincial Minister, probably in 1304[1073]; he had ceased to hold the office in 1310[1074]. He was one of the doctors of theology appointed in the Provincial Council of York in July 1311, to examine the charges of heresy against the Knights Templars[1075]. He was buried at Lincoln. The Register of the Friars Minors of London adds: _qui fecit mirabilia_; probably some word like _opera_ is to be supplied[1076].