CHAPTER IV. BOOKS AND LIBRARIES. Absence of privacy in a Franciscan Friary 55 Books of individual Friars 56 The two libraries, and their contents 57 Grostete’s bequest of books 57 Extant MSS. formerly in the Franciscan Convent 59 Alleged illegal detention of books by the Friars in 1330 60 Richard Fitzralph’s statements 60 Richard of Bury, on the libraries of Mendicant Friars 61 Dispersion of the books of the Oxford Franciscans 61 Leland’s description of the library in his time 62 CHAPTER V. PLACE OF OXFORD IN THE FRANCISCAN ORGANIZATION. Learned Friars as practical workers among the people 63 Their Sermons 64 Educational organization throughout the country 64 Relations of the Franciscan School at Oxford to the other Franciscan Schools of Europe 66 English Franciscans teach in foreign Universities 67 Oxford as the head convent of a _custodia_ 68 Provincial Chapters held at Oxford 69 CHAPTER VI. RIVALRY BETWEEN THE ORDERS: ATTACKS ON THE FRIARS. Rivalry between the Friars Preachers and Minors: proselytism 71 Politics and Philosophy 72 Peckham and the Oxford Friars 73 Evangelical Poverty 75 Contrast between theory and practice 78 Attack on the Friars by Richard Fitzralph 79 Charge of stealing children 79 Wiclif’s early relations to the Friars 81 His attack on them in his later years 82 Charges of gross immorality made not by Wiclif, but by his followers 83 The University and the Friars; summary of events in 1382 84 Unpopularity of the Friars in the fifteenth century 85 Foreign Minorites expelled from Oxford 86 Conspiracies against Henry IV; part taken by the Oxford Franciscans 87 Relations between the Conventual and Observant Franciscans 87