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
‘that he should incept before the feast of St. Thomas (July 3rd), pay
£15 on the day of his inception, and give a separate livery to the
Regents at his own expense’[1682].
He was at this time clearly not in the position of a simple mendicant. In
March, 1464/5 he was made Bishop of Bangor[1683]. The next year[1684] he
was allowed to appropriate a benefice ‘owing to the smallness of the
income of the episcopal table.’ He died in 1496[1685].
=Gundesalvus (Gonsalvo) of Portugal= was admitted to oppose in theology in
April, 1456[1686]. In February, 1456/7, he supplicated that he might
reckon the two terms, during which he had been opponent, as a year, and
proceed to the bachelor’s degree[1687]. On May 29th, 1459, having
performed the exercises required for the doctor’s degree, he supplicated
for grace to incept in theology, ‘notwithstanding that he had not ruled in
Arts.’ The grace was conceded on condition that he should incept in the
first week of the next term, and
‘give a livery, i.e. _cultellos_, according to the ancient custom, to
all the Regents’[1688].
Among the Observant friars of Portugal who died in 1504 to 1505 was
‘venerandus pater frater Gundisalvus, qui bis Vicarius Provincialis
fuit’[1689].
_Gundessalvi Libri de Divisione Philosophiae_, Bodl. MS. 2596 (Bernard)
are probably not by this friar: cf. Cambridge MSS. No. 1025 (in Bernard):
and Bibl. Nat. Paris, 16613 ‘Gumdissalvi Liber de anima’ (sec. xiii).
=John Alien=, B.D. of Cambridge, was on December 1st, 1459, incorporated
as B.D. at Oxford under the following conditions: (1) he was to respond
twice in the first year of his incorporation, and (2) to preach once to
the University in the same period; (3) he was to pay 40_s._ to the
building of the schools, and (4) oppose twice before his incorporation.
The last two conditions were on the same day withdrawn at Alien’s
request[1690]. He may be the same as Friar John Alen, S.T.P., sometime
warden of the convent at London, where he was buried, in the Chapel of All
Saints[1691].
=Richard Rodnore= and =---- Roby=, ‘friars of the Order of St. Francis,’
at Oxford, had a quarrel in 1461, in consequence of which Roby procured
from the Archbishop of Canterbury an inhibition to prevent Rodnore being
admitted to the degree of D.D. At the inception on June 27th, 1461, the
Commissary refused to recognise the inhibition, Rodnore took his degree,
and three persons who had been employed in presenting the Archbishop’s
command were imprisoned by the Congregation of Regents as ‘disturbers of
peace and violators of privileges,’ and suspended from their office in the
University[1692].
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