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
=William Tithemersch= (co. Northampton), ‘of the custody of Oxford,’ was
sixty-first Master of the Minorites at Cambridge, and twenty-first
Provincial, about 1350; he was succeeded by Roger Conway, and was buried
at Bedford[1498].
=William Scharshille= (co. Stafford),
‘formerly a justiciary under Edward III, gave away all his temporal
goods and entered the Order, with great honour, at Oxford[1499].’
The date is not specified. A William de Shareshull, who is no doubt the
same person, was ordered to attend a parliament in Scotland for the
confirmation of a treaty between Edward III and Edward Balliol, in 1333;
he is mentioned as a justice of assize in 1337, and he was appointed one
of the examiners of some ecclesiastical petitions to Parliament in
1351[1500]. In 1356 ‘Dominus Willhelmus de Scharshull’ appears among the
witnesses to an indenture between the University of Oxford and Richard
d’Amory[1501].
=Richard Lymynster= and =Giuliortus de Limosano= are mentioned in a
University decree as ‘wax-doctors’ of the Mendicant Orders at Oxford in
1358. It is uncertain to which Order the former belonged. The latter was a
Minorite from Sicily, who tried to obtain the degree of B.D. by means of
letters from the king of England[1502].
=Jerome of St. Mark= is said to have been a Minorite and Bachelor of
Oxford, and author of a treatise on logic. His date--or even the century
in which he lived--is unknown[1503].
=John of Nottingham= was a member of the Oxford Convent in the middle of
the fourteenth century: he was one of the witnesses to the will of Robert
de Trenge, Warden of Merton, and perhaps his confessor; the will was
executed 1351, and proved 1357[1504].
=Roger Conway=, of the convent of Worcester and D.D. of Oxford, in 1355
obtained papal license to live in the Franciscan Convent of London
‘for the spiritual recreation of himself and of the nobles of
England,’
who were said to flock in great numbers to this friary; Roger was to be
subject to the rules of the house like any other friar[1505]. In 1357 he
came forward as the champion of the Mendicant Orders against the
Archbishop of Armagh, and wrote and preached in London ‘on the poverty of
Christ’ and the right of the friars to hear confessions[1506]. According
to one account
‘he strenuously defended his Order in the Curia against
Armachanus[1507].’
In 1359 Innocent VI issued a bull confirming the decree _Vas electionis_
of John XXII,
‘at the instance of Roger Coneway of the Order of Friars Minors, who
asserts that he needs these letters on behalf of the said
Order[1508].’
He was twenty-second Provincial Minister of England[1509], and perhaps
held the office at the time of the controversy with Richard
Fitzralph[1510]. Bale and Pits state that he died in 1360; it is not
improbable that he lived several years longer. He was buried in the choir
of the Grey Friars Church, London[1511].
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