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
=Hugh Glaseyere= supplicated in 1535 that fourteen years’ study might
suffice for his admission to oppose and read the _Sentences_. He was
admitted to oppose on July 13, and B.D. on July 14, 1538[1919], i.e. on
the day of the dissolution of the Oxford friary. His name, however, does
not appear in the list of Minorites at Oxford ‘who would have their
capacities.’ He conformed to the various changes in religion. In November,
1538, he was instituted to the rectory of Hanworth, Middlesex, on the
presentation of the King; he resigned it in 1554. In 1546 he was appointed
to the rectory of Harlington, which he held till his death[1920]. In 1541
he was appointed by Cranmer to the difficult post of commissary-general of
the Archbishop at Calais[1921]. In 1542 he was made canon of Christchurch,
Canterbury[1922]. In Edward’s reign he was reckoned ‘an eager man for
reformation,’ and preached at Paul’s Cross (1547) that the observation of
Lent was only
‘a politic ordinance of man, and might therefore be broken of men at
their leisure’[1923].
In 1553 he was presented by Queen Mary to the rectory of Deal[1924]. In
March, 1558, Cardinal Pole appointed certain commissioners for the
suppression of heresy in his diocese, among them being Hugh Glazier,
S.T.B.[1925] Hugh did not survive the persecution in Kent which followed.
On the 27th July, 1558, ‘Magister Glasier, sacellanus cardinalis,’ was
buried at Lambeth[1926].
=Henry Stretsham= supplicated for B.D. in May, 1538, having studied twelve
years at Oxford and Cambridge; he was to preach at St. Mary’s and in some
other church _intra Universitatis precinctum_[1927].
=Richard Roper=, B.D., was one of the Franciscans at Oxford who desired
‘to have their capacities’ at the dissolution[1928].
=Radulph Kyrswell=, or =Creswell=, was an Observant Friar at Reading in
1534, having probably been sent there as a prisoner for refusing to
acknowledge the royal supremacy. At the time of the dissolution he was at
Oxford, and as priest supplicated for a ‘capacity’[1929].
=Robert Newman= was one of the priests among the Oxford Franciscans at the
dissolution who asked for ‘capacities.’ He became vicar of Hampton in
1541, joined the reforming party, and was deprived of the living on the
accession of Mary[1930].
=John Comre= (?), =James Cantwell=, =Thomas Cappes=, =William Bowghnell=,
=James Smyth=, =Thomas Wythman=, were among the priests in the Franciscan
Convent who asked for ‘capacities’ at the dissolution[1931].
=John Staffordeschyer=, priest, was at Oxford when the friary was
suppressed[1932]. John Stafford, who was warden of the Grey Friars at
Coventry in 1519 and 1538, when he surrendered his house to the King on
the 5th October, seems to have been a different person[1933].
=John Olliff=, sub-deacon, after asking for a ‘capacity’ on the
dissolution of the Oxford friary, joined the Grey Friars of Doncaster and
was among the ten brethren who signed the surrender of that house on
November 20th, 1538[1934].
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