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
=Mauritius de Portu=, or =O’Fihely=, a native of County Cork, studied
first at Oxford, then became regent of the Franciscan Schools at Milan in
1488, and regent doctor in theology at Padua in 1491, where he was
honoured with the title of ‘_Flos Mundi_.’ He was minister of Ireland in
1506 and took a prominent part in deposing the General, Ægidius Delphinus,
in the first _capitulum generalissimum_ at Rome in that year. In 1506
also, he was made Archbishop of Tuam by Julius II. He was present at the
Lateran Council in 1512, and died the next year; he was buried among the
Grey Friars of Galway[1705].
For his writings, most of which have been printed, see Tanner, _Bibl._
p. 605, Wood, _Athenae_ I, 16-18. They relate for the most part to
works of Duns Scotus, ‘whom (Wood remarks) he had in so great
veneration that he was in a manner besotted with his subtilties.’ The
_Distinctiones ordine alphabetico_ by ‘Frater Mauricius Anglus’ cannot
be by Mauritius de Portu; they exist e.g. in a fourteenth-century MS.
in the British Museum (Royal 10 B. xvi), and in a thirteenth-century
MS. at Paris[1706].
=Petrus Pauli de Nycopia=, friar, who transcribed a work of Duns Scotus at
Oxford, c. 1491, was probably a Minorite[1707].
=John Percevall=, D.D. of Oxford, was Provincial Minister about
1500[1708]. There appears to have been a contemporary writer of the same
name, a Carthusian, who studied at Oxford and Cambridge. Among those
buried in the choir of the Grey Friars, London,
‘in plano sub lapide jacet venerabilis pater et frater Johannes
Persevall doctor egregius et ordinis minorum in anglia minister qui
obiit 16 die Mensis Decembris, A{o} Domini 1505{o}’[1709].
=Thomas Roger=, warden of the Grey Friars of Gloucester, is mentioned in
the following record of the Chancellor’s Court; it is to be regretted that
no explanation of the circumstances is forthcoming.
‘Ultimo Februarii 1499 (= Feb. 29th, 1500) W. Botehill de Gloucestre,
scitatus coram nobis ad instanciam fratris Thome Roger gardiani
fratrum minorum Gloucestrie, prestitit juramentum corporale quod ipse
in persona sua propria comparebit Gloucestrie responsurus obiciendis
sibi pro parte dicti Gardiani et hoc citra ffestum Pasche
proximum’[1710].
=John Kynton= is once only described as a Minorite in the records.
‘Eodem die (October 24th, 1507) Thomas Clarke executor testamenti
Joannis Falley promisit se soluturum domino doctori Kynton ordinis
Minorum xxvi{s} viii{d}[1711].’
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