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
_Insuper_, tu jurabis quod nullas conclusiones per fratrem Wilhelmum
Russell, ordinis Minorum, nuper positas et praedicatas, contra decimas
personales, et in nostra Universitate Oxoniae, necnon in venerabili
concilio episcoporum, anno Domini millesimo quadringentesimo vicesimo
quinto celebrato Londoniis, solemniter damnatas, nec alicujus earum
sententiam tenebis, docebis, vel defendes efficaciter publice aut
occulte, nec aliquem doctorem, tentorem vel defensorem hujusmodi, ope,
consilio vel favore juvabis[559].
For a similar offence another Franciscan, William Melton, D.D., was
arrested at the instance of the University, and compelled to recant[560].
The Alma Mater kept a vigilant eye on her sons wherever they might be. In
1482 Friar Isaac Cusack, D.D., began to create disturbances in Ireland by
preaching the old Franciscan doctrine of evangelical poverty; he was
captured, sent to Oxford, and degraded and expelled the University as a
vagabond and a heretic[561].
The feeling of nationality fostered by the long French wars was not
without its influence on the friars in England and especially at the
Universities. In 1369 the Chancellor caused a royal proclamation to be
published at Carfax ordering all French students at Oxford, both religious
and secular, to leave the kingdom[562]. In 1388 a royal writ was issued to
the Warden of the Friars Minors in Oxford at the advice of the same
convent, warning him to admit no foreign friars who might reveal to the
enemy ‘the secrets and counsel of our kingdom,’ and to expel any such
friars for whose good behaviour he would not be responsible, or who would
not pray or celebrate masses for the King and the good estate of the
realm[563].
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