Hymns in old English[1154], quibus haec notula adjicitur: ‘Istos Hympnos et Antiphonas transtulit in Anglicum non semper de verbo in verbum, sed frequenter sensum aut non multum declinando, et in manu sua scripsit frater Willielmus Herebert; qui usum horum autem habuerit, oret pro anima dicti Patris.’ William Herbert was buried at Hereford, which was probably his native convent[1155]. 44. =Thomas of St. Dunstan= (Kent?). 45. =John of Reading= (de Radingia) was buried at Avignon. He had probably gone to the papal curia in connexion with the revolt of Michael de Cesena and William of Ockham[1156]. Cf. MS. Florence:--Laurentiana, _ex Bibl. S. Crucis_, Plut. XXXV, Dext. Cod. xi, _Primus Fratris Joannis de Padingia (= Radingia?), S.T.D. ord. Min. (super sententias?)_. 46. =John of Thornton=; the name is uncertain; it may be Jornton; the Phillipps MS. reads Zortone. 47. =Richard of Drayton=, was buried at Shrewsbury[1157]. 48. =Robert of Leicester= seems to have been a protégé of Richard Swinfeld, bishop of Hereford, to whom he dedicated his first extant work in 1294[1158]. He was S.T.P. and in residence at Oxford in 1325, and probably lecturer to the friars about the same time. In this year he was associated with Nicholas de Tyngewick, M.D. and S.T.B. as ‘_Magister Extraneus_’ of Balliol College[1159]. The two were called upon to decide whether the statutes of the College allowed the members to attend lectures in any faculty except that of Arts, and ordained ‘in the presence of the whole community’ that this was not permissible. Among those present in the Hall of Balliol when the decision was proclaimed was Richard Fitzralph, afterwards Archbishop of Armagh, the great opponent of the Mendicant Orders[1160]. Bale and Pits say that Robert died at Lichfield in 1348; ‘but,’ adds Wood, ‘I suppose ’twas sooner.’ _De compoto Hebreorum aptato ad Kalendarium_, four parts with prologue; composed A. D. 1294. _Inc. prol._ ‘Operis injuncti novitatem, pater meritis insignissime, magister et domine R. Dei gratia Herfordensis antistes ecclesie.’ _Compotus Hebreorum purus._ _Inc._ ‘Prima earum est a creacione mundi.’ _Commentariolus supra tabulas in tractatu primo supra recensito descriptas_ (or, _De ratione temporum_), written in 1295. _Inc._ ‘Ad planiorem et pleniorem prescripti tractatus intelligenciam.’ These three works are contained in MS. Bodl. Digby 212 (sec. xiv). _Distinctiones._ MS. Cambridge:--Pembroke Coll. 220, § 1; ‘Enchiridion poenitentiale ... ex distinctionibus ... Rob. de Leycester (aliorumque).’ _De paupertate Christi._ Attributed to him by Leland[1161]. 49. =Walter de Foxisley=, or =Ffoxle= in Phillipps MS. (Norfolk or Wilts?). 50. =Henry Cruche.= A sermon by ‘H. de Cruce, Minor,’ is in Merton Coll. MS. No. 248, f. 170. This name is omitted in the list given in the Phillipps MS. 51. =John de Ratforde= (cf. 63rd master).