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
=Edward Ryley= was allowed to proceed B.D. in June, 1533, after sixteen
years’ study, on condition of preaching at St. Mary’s and St.
Paul’s[1871]. He was warden of the Franciscan Friars of Aylesbury in 1534,
and as such took the oath of Succession[1872]. He seems to have remained
loyal to the old religion; he held several livings in Mary’s reign,
namely, Wakering Parva, and Peldon in Essex (A. D. 1555), St. Mary at Axe
(1556), which was united to the parish of St. Andrew Undershaft in 1561;
he resigned the living St. James Garlickhithe, London, in 1560, and that
of Stisted, Essex, in 1561[1873].
=John Williams= was admitted to oppose in 1533, after studying fourteen
years. On May 4, 1534, in the dispute about a horse, already referred to,
between Dr. Baskerfeld and Richard Weston, he was called as a witness on
behalf of the former. In January, 1536/7, Baskerfeld bound himself on
pain of imprisonment to produce John Williams when required, to answer
charges brought against him; the nature of the charges does not
appear[1874].
=William Browne= was admitted B.D. in January, 1534/5. He was at Oxford
when the friary was dissolved[1875].
=John Tomsun=, ‘Ordinis Franciscani,’ was admitted to oppose on October
17, 1534[1876]. The name appears among the twenty-seven names appended to
the deed of surrender of the Grey Friars, London, November 12, 1538[1877].
=Robert Puller= was at Oxford about 1534; Richard Roberts, scholar of
Broadgates Hall, brought an action against him for the recovery of
‘xxv solidos sibi debitos ab eodem Roberto Puller fratre ex causa
emptionis et vendicionis.’
John Bacheler and other friars engaged to pay the debt[1878].
=John Notly=, or =Snotly=, Minorite, was appointed to preach the
University sermon at St. Peter’s (in the East?) on Ash Wednesday,
1535/6[1879].
=David Whythede= was at Oxford in January, 1535/6, when the warden bound
himself to produce him in the Chancellor’s Court whenever required[1880].
=John Joseph=, a Minorite of Canterbury, supplicated for B.D. in June,
1533, after studying for twelve years. He was licensed D.D. in 1541, and
incepted in 1542, as _vir litteris ac moribus ornatissimus_. He was
dispensed from his necessary regency
‘quia astringitur ad residentiam nec his diutius manere poterit.’
It is evident that he held some benefice at this time. In 1542/3, he was
dispensed from a sermon owing to ill-health[1881].
He was one of Cranmer’s chaplains, and a zealous member of the reforming
party, and was appointed preacher at Canterbury by Cranmer[1882]. In 1546
he became Rector of St. Mary-le-Bow[1883]. In 1547 he was made one of the
commissioners for the visitation of the dioceses of Peterborough, Lincoln,
Oxford, Coventry, and Lichfield[1884]. In 1549 he preached at Paul’s Cross
against the observance of Lent[1885], and, on another occasion, as
substitute for the Archbishop, against the rebellions in that year,
concerning
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