Rex Thesaurario et Camerario, etc. Liberate[1946] Johanni Marscallo nostro xj{li} ij{d} pro iiij equis emptis ad opus nostrum et liberatis per preceptum nostrum iiij{or} fratribus ordinis predicatorum et minorum euntibus in nuncium ad partes transmarinas, et lxix{s} vij{d} obolum pro expensis eorundem equorum et garcionum custodientium eos per xxxv dies. Liberate etiam eidem Johanni lxvj{s} ix{d} pro hernesiis emptis ad opus fratrum predictorum.... Teste ut supra (Rege apud Westm’ xxi die Dec.). 4 The Church of the Minorites used as a Sanctuary, A. D. 1284-5. Assize Roll 710, m. 55[1947]. Adam de Kydmersford posuit se in Ecclesiam fratrum minorum Oxon’ et cognouit se esse latronem de pluribus latrociniis et abiurauit regnum coram Coronatore. Nulla habuit catalla. 5 Royal grant of 50 marcs, 1289. Exchequer, Queen’s Remembrancer, Wardrobe Acc{ts} 4/7, Anno 17-18, Edw. I. This is the earliest mention which I have found of the annual grant of 50 marks to the Oxford Minorites. After reciting the similar grant to the Friars Preachers, the record goes on (11th October):-- Et ffratribus Minoribus Oxon’, percipientibus similiter annuatim a Rege in subsidium sustentacionis L marcas, scilicet eodem modo ad duos terminos pro Elemosina Regis predicti; de termino Sancti Michaelis anno presenti per manus ffratrum Johannis de Bekinkham et Johannis de Clara, xvi{li} xiij{s} iiij{d}. Later in the same document occurs this entry:-- Pro Scaccario. ffratribus Minoribus Oxon’ percipientibus[1948] annuatim L marcas de Elemosina Regis ad sustentacionem suam ad duos anni terminos, vid. ad festum Sancti Michaelis et ad Pasch’, pro eadem Elemosina de termino Sancti Michaelis anno xvj{mo} finiente et de termino pasche anno xvij{o} xxxiij{li} vj{s} viij{d}. 6 Decree of the General Chapter at Paris, A. D. 1292. The following extract is reprinted from Ehrle’s ‘Die ältesten Redactionen der Generalconstitutionen des Franziskaner-Ordens,’ in the ‘Archiv für Literatur- und Kirchengeschichte des Mittelalters,’ vol. VI. p. 63. The Franciscan School at Oxford evidently had at this time a greater reputation and greater popularity than those at Cambridge and London. But why the burden should be especially heavy during the long vacation is not quite clear. Can the Mendicant Friars have been to any large extent dependent on the alms of the secular scholars? Memoriale ministro Anglie. Ut tempore vacacionis maioris onus conventus Oxonie aliqualiter relevetur, ordinat generale capitulum, quod studentes ibidem de provinciis inter ipsam Oxoniensem et Londonensem et Canteb[_rigiensem_] conventus pro tertia parte, connumeratis aliis studentibus extraneis, qui in prefatis Londonensi et Cantebrugiensi conventibus fuerint, ad ministri provincialis arbitrium dividantur. 7 Royal grant of 50 marcs; tally on the Sheriff of Oxford for half the amount, A. D. 1323; evidence of payment. R.O. Exchequer, Treas. of Receipt 3/35.