ABBREVIATIONS AND EDITIONS USED. Anal. Franc. = Analacta Franciscana, sive chronica aliaque varia documenta ad historiam Fratrum Minorum spectantia, edita a Patribus Collegii S. Bonaventurae, Quaracchi, 1885-7, 2 vols. Archiv f. L. u. K. Gesch. = Archiv für Literatur- und Kirchengeschichte des Mittelalters, herausgegeben von H. Denifle und F. Ehrle. Bale, Script. = Illustrium Majoris Britanniae Scriptorum ... Summarium, 1559, 2 vols. B. of Pisa = Bartholomew of Pisa, Liber Conformitatum, ed. Milan, 1510. Bernard = Catalogi Librorum MSS. Angliae et Hiberniae, Oxon., 1697. Burnet, Reformation = History of the Reformation of the Church of England, Oxford, 1829. Foxe = The Acts and Monuments of John Foxe, edited by Cattley, 1841. Hist. Litt. = Histoire Littéraire de la France (by the Benedictines of St. Maur, and the Members of the Institute), 1733-1873. Lyte = Maxwell Lyte, History of the University of Oxford, 1886. Montfaucon = B. Montfaucon, Bibliotheca Bibliothecarum MSS., &c. P.C.C. = Prerogative Court of Canterbury, Wills proved in the, now at Somerset House. Q. R. Misc. = Queen’s Remembrancer, Miscellaneous Accounts, now in the Public Record Office. Q. R. Wardrobe = Queen’s Remembrancer, Wardrobe Accounts, now in the Public Record Office. R.O. = Public Record Office. R.S. = Rolls Series, or Chronicles and Memorials of Great Britain and Ireland during the Middle Ages, published under the direction of the Master of the Rolls. Tomasin = Bibliotheca Patavinae MSS., and Bibliothecae Venetae MSS. &c. (see above). Wadding = L. Wadding, Annales Minorum, Romae, 1731, &c. Wadding, Script. = L. Wadding, Scriptores Ordinis Minorum, Romae, 1806. Wadding, Sup. ad Script. = Supplementum et castigatio ad Scriptores trium Ordinum S. Francisci a Waddingo aliisve descriptos ... opus posthumum Fr. Jo. Hyacinthi Sbaraleae, Romae, 1806. Wood-Clark = Survey of the Antiquities of the City of Oxford, by Anthony Wood, edited by Andrew Clark, 1889-1890. [The MS. from which this edition is printed is often referred to in the following pages, namely ‘Wood MS. F. 29 a’ in the Bodleian.] TABLE OF CONTENTS. PAGE PART I. HISTORY OF THE CONVENT. CHAPTER I. EARLY YEARS. Arrival and first settlement of the Franciscan Friars at Oxford 1 Their early poverty and cheerfulness 3 Oxford Friars as peacemakers and Crusaders 7 Relations to the University and to the earliest Colleges 8 Their strict observance of the Rule 10