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
_Matthew Coke_, of Oxford, in the same year, bequeathed 30_s._ to be
divided among the Orders of friars, ‘to celebrate for my soul,’ and added
the hope:
‘et ultra hoc spero in voluntate uxoris mee[684].’
_John Thomas_, priest, left by will made at Oxford 1413, 10_s._ to the
Friars Minors there,
‘to say one dirige for me with their other usual suffrages[685].’
_Lady Alienora de Sancto Amando_ in 1426 left £8 to be divided amongst the
four Orders at Oxford ‘to celebrate for her soul[686].’
_Robert James_, Esq., lord of Borstall, left 6_s._ 8_d._ to each Order at
Oxford in 1431[687].
_Agnes_, wife of _Michael Norton_[688], in 1438 willed to be buried in the
Minorite church at Oxford, and gave instructions that her tenement in St.
Ebbe’s should be sold and that
‘from the money so acquired an anniversary should be held in the said
church of the friars Minors of Oxford for my soul and the soul of
Thomas Clamiter (?) my late husband, for the space of twenty years,
the friars receiving for each such anniversary 6_s._ 8_d._’
_James Hedyan_, LL.B., and Principal of Eagle Hall, in 1445 bequeathed
8_s._ to the Franciscans, in whose church he was buried, and 20_d._ to
Friar Giles (his Franciscan confessor?)[689].
_Reginald Mertherderwa_, doctor of laws and rector of the parish of St.
Crida the Virgin in the diocese of Exeter, in 1447 left 6_s._ 8_d._ to
each of the four Mendicant Orders at Oxford; and to the convent of Friars
Minors
‘to provide one breakfast or dinner among them, that they may the more
devoutly pray for my soul, three shillings and four-pence[690].’
_William Skelton_, clerk, rector of the parish of St. Vedast, London, left
the Minorites 3_s._ 4_d._ in the same year[691].
_Walter Morleyse_, ‘de alta Sebyndon,’ Co. Wilts, left them 5_s._
(1451)[692].
_Richard Browne, alias Cordon_[693], LL.D. and Archdeacon of Rochester,
Canon of York, Wells, etc., provides in his will dated 1452, that if he
dies in or near Oxford, every Order of friars there shall have one noble
(6_s._ 8_d._)
‘for the labour of masses and other suffrages to be said for the
salvation of his soul and the souls of all the faithful dead.’
Further, ‘I give and bequeath to Friar David Carrewe, Minorite, Master
in Theology, 6_s._ 8_d._’
_William Lord Lovell_[694] made arrangements before his death ‘to be
buried at the Grayfreris of Oxenford;’ (will dated 18 March, 1454/5,
proved Sept. 1, 1455). In the arrangements a bequest would no doubt be
included.
_Master Philip Polton_, Archdeacon of Gloucester (buried in All Souls
Chapel), left 40_d._ to each Order of friars of Oxford by will dated
1461[695].
_John Dongan_ in 1464 desired to be buried ‘in the cemetery of the Friars
Minors of the University of Oxford,’ to whom he gives 40_d._[696]
_John Russel_, of Holawnton, Wilts, made his will in 1469[697].
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