_Thomas Goodewyn_, of Alkerton (Oxon), a large sheepfarmer, bequeathed 2_s._ 8_d._ to the ‘gray ffryers of Oxford,’ in 1530[727]. In 1532 _William Clare_, of Hollywell, Oxford, left 3_s._ 4_d._ to each Order of friars at Oxford[728]. _Jane Foxe_, of Burford, in 1535 bequeathed her lands and tenements and ‘ii c (200) shepe’ to her son, and 5_s._ 8_d._ ‘to the iiij order of frears in Oxford[729].’ _Henry Standish_[730], Friar Minor, and Bishop of St. Asaph, in 1535 bequeathed ‘five marcs to buy books to be placed in the library of the scholars of the friars Minors in the University of Oxford,’ ten marks to the church of the same friars, £40 for the exhibition of scholars[731] in the University of Oxford, and £40 to build an aisle in the church of the friars Minors at Oxford. _Thomas Sowche_, of ‘Spellusbury,’ left to the ‘fore orders of freers in Oxford, euery one of them iiij_d._[732]’ _Richard Elemens_ or _Elemeus_, of ‘Welleford’ (Berkshire?), in 1536 left ‘vnto the Gray freers yn Oxford x_s._[733]’ _John Claymond_, S.T.B., President first of Magdalen College, then of Corpus Christi College, left 20_s._ to each of the convents of friars at Oxford in 1536, ‘ut celebrent in ecclesiis suis pro anima ejus[734].’ _Elizabeth Johnson_, of Oxford, widow, in 1537 left ‘to the four ordres of fryers four nobles to singe dirige and masse at All-hallowes churche at the buryall and moneth mynde.’ The will was proved on Jan. 12th, 1538/9,--after the suppression of the friaries[735]. Many testators authorized their executors to make due provision of trentalls and masses ‘for the wealth of their souls,’ without specifying where they were to be celebrated: the friars no doubt came in for a share of these. Thus Thomas Hoye, Vicar of Bampton, in 1531 gives the following instructions[736]: ‘It is my will that the forsaid goodes be preysid and put to vendicion and the money therof cummyng to be ordered and distributed by myn executors for trentallys of masses off Requiem eternam and masses of the V woundes of our lord to be celebrate and said for the welthe of my soule and all Christen sowles. Amen.’ On the other hand, the parish priests or rectors of churches were legally entitled to one-fourth of the gifts, bequests, and fees given by their parishioners to the friars[737]: but it is impossible to say whether the right was generally enforced. In 1521 Leo X, ‘owing to the importunate exaction of the funeral fourth by some rectors of churches,’ exempted the friars from the payment[738]. Among other sources of revenue may be enumerated the institution of annual masses for fees (of which the wills often make mention), commutations of penances for money[739], payment by the University and others for the use of their church, schools, and other buildings on various occasions[740], and collections in church[741]. At the beginning of the sixteenth century we hear of a