First Settlement inside the City Wall.--Acquisition of the houses of W. de Wileford (1229) and Robert Oen (1236).--Increase of the _area_ in 1244-1245.--Grants from the King, Thomas Valeynes, and others.--Island in the Thames, 1245.--Messuage of Laurence Wych, 1247.--Friars of the Penitence of Jesus Christ.--Their property in Oxford granted to the Minorites by Clement V, and by Edward II, 1310.--Grants from various persons, 1310.--Richard Cary and John Culvard, 1319.--Walter Morton, 1321.--To what classes did the donors belong? Absence of information about the buildings at the Grey Friars.--Original houses and chapel.--School built by Agnellus.--The stricter friars oppose the tendency to build, without success.--Building of the new church, 1246, &c.--Its site and appearance.--William of Worcester’s description of it.--Richard Plantagenet, Earl of Cornwall, buried there, 1272.--Other tombs in the church, especially that of Agnellus.--Grave of Roger Bacon.--Cloisters, Chapter House, Refectory, and other conventual buildings.--Conduit and Gates. For about a hundred years from the date of their settlement in Oxford, the Friars Minors were gradually acquiring property. We have seen that after a short sojourn in the house of Robert le Mercer, the house of Richard le Muliner became their first permanent abode. The position of the former cannot be at all definitely ascertained; it was in the parish of St. Ebbe’s[79], probably near the church and within the city walls[80]. Wood places it between the church and the Watergate. But he is certainly wrong in the position he ascribes to the second house, namely, ‘without the towne wall, and about a stone’s cast from their first hired house[81].’ The house of Richard the Miller was undoubtedly between the wall and Freren Street (Church Street). In 1244 Henry III allowed the friars to throw down the wall of the town in order to ‘connect their new place with the old one[82].’ Even apart from the fact that the Mercer’s house did not at this time belong to them, it is obvious that the houses which they acquired in 1224 and 1225 would not in 1244 be distinguished as the ‘old place’ and the ‘new place’ respectively. The ‘new place’ refers to lands which came into their possession about the time of this grant, and of which Wood knew nothing, while the Miller’s house formed part of the ‘old place.’