[737]Wadding, Vol. V, 342-3 (privilege of Boniface VIII, 1295); Mon. Franc. II, Pref. p. xvii.
[738]Wadding, Vol. XVI, p. 134.
[739]Restricted by Constitutions of 1260; Archiv f. L. u. K. Gesch. VI, 92. Cf. Wiclif, Two Short Tracts, &c., p. 37: ‘The Friars suffren men to lie in sinne, fro yere to yere, for an annual rent.’
[740]Cf. Grey Friars at Cambridge, in Willis and Clark, Architect. Hist. II, 724.
[741]Cf. Chaucer’s Sompnour’s Tale. Forbidden 1260; Archiv f. L. u. K. Gesch. VI, 92.
[742]Acta Cur. Cancell.F, fol. 135 b: ‘... Confessus est coram nobis Ric. Barlow quod debet magistris Gilde Sancte Marie in ecclesia fratrum minorum tresdecim nobilia que mutuo a predictis magistris recepit,’ &c.
[743]Mon. Franc. I. 541.
[744]Lyte 196, and note 1.
[745]Mon. Franc. II, preface.
[746]See their designations or surnames, of London, York, Nottingham, Hartlepool, &c.
[747]See e.g. John Cardmaker in Part II. The proselytising tendency has already been referred to. The number of ‘apostate’ friars must have been very considerable to judge from the frequent edicts against them.
[748]Cal. of State Papers, Hen. VIII, Vol. V, p. 607. Wadding, V, p. 139, Pope Martin IV was buried in a Franciscan habit,A. D.1285. Cf. Ibid. XIV, p. 58; Polit. Poems and Songs (R.S.), II, 19, 32.
[749]The Franciscans still maintained a certain reputation as theologians: one of them was appointed each year to preach the University sermon on Ash-Wednesday; Acta Cur. Canc.F, fol. 263 a, 264 a and b; EEE, fol. 362, 363, 366 b: the custom was probably of ancient origin. Cf. also the notice of John Kynton.
[750]Lyte, Oxford, p. 435.
[751]Calendar of State Papers, Hen. VIII, Vol. III, Nos. 929, 965. Cf. Seebohm’s Oxford Reformers, 326-7.
[752]See notices of R. Brynkley and N. de Burgo.
[753]Erasmus, Opera, III, 840: ‘Ego peperi ovum, Lutherus exclusit. Mirum vero dictum Minoritarum istorum magnaque et bona pulte dignum. Ego posui ovum gallinaceum, Lutherus exclusit pullum longe dissimillimum’ (quoted by Mullinger, Cambridge, I, 588, n. 2).
[754]Kynton, e.g., took part in the condemnation of Luther’s doctrines and books at the conference in London, April 21, 1521.
[755]See notices of John Rycks and Gregory Basset. Foxe (Acts and Monuments, IV, 642, Ao1531) says that Dr. Call, ‘by the word of God, through the means of Bilney’s doctrine and good life, whereof he had good experience, was somewhat reclaimed to the gospel’s side.’ William Call, D.D. of Cambridge, was at this time Provincial Minister of the English Franciscans. In this connexion attention may be drawn to the lectures on St. Paul’s epistles delivered by Minorites; see J. Porrett and W. Walker.
[756]See notices of E. Ryley, Gregory Basset.
[757]See Thomas Kirkham (?), R. Beste, John Joseph, Guy Etton, J. Cardmaker, R. Newman.
[758]One only, J. Cardmaker, appears to have been burnt.
[759]See E. Bricotte, J. Crayford, H. Glaseyere.
[760]Eulog. Hist. III, 337-8. See notice of J. Mardeslay.
[761]Cf.Munimenta Academica, p. 208. In this respect the Franciscans were at one with Marsiglio of Padua and Wiclif.
[762]Cal. of State Papers, Hen. VIII, Vol. II, Nos. 1313, 1314: Brewer, Henry VIII, I, 250-3. Cf. R. L. Poole’s Wycliffe, 32-3.
[763]Gasquet, Henry VIII and the English Monasteries, I, 215.
[764]Dixon, Church of England, I, 213; but see Gasquet, I, 248, note.
[765]Dixon, ibid.
[766]Wood, Annals, anno 1530.
[767]Lyte, Oxford, 475.
[768]Wood, Annals, anno 1530.
[769]Boase, Register, 128. Cal. of State Papers, Hen. VIII, Vol. IV, Nos. 1334, 6619; Vol. V, 623; cf. V, No. 593.
[770]Wood, Annals, sub anno 1530; Lyte, Oxford, 474.
[771]Wood, ibid.
[772]See notice of N. de Burgo in Part II.
[773]Wright, Suppression, p. 212 (Camden Soc.).
[774]‘We have sett Dunce in Bocardo,’ &c. Wright, Suppression, p. 71 (quoted by Wood, Dixon, Lyte, Gasquet, &c.).
[775]Wright, ibid.
[776]Gasquet, I, 255. The articles and injunctions are printed in Wilkins, Concilia, III, 786,seq.They were drawn up with reference to the monks, not friars; but no distinction seems to have been made between the various classes of religious students at the Universities.
[777]Gasquet, I, 255-7.
[778]Wright, Suppression, 71.
[779]Of the nine Minorites (namely J. Tomsun, T. Tomsun, W. David, R. David, W. Browne, G. Etton, H. Glaseyere, J. Crayford, and H. Stretsham) who were admitted to opponency or to B.D. between 1534, when the troubles began, and July 1538, only one appears in the list of those desiring ‘capacities’ at the dissolution. Many brethren in other convents, and perhaps in this, fled to the Continent. Gasquet, II, 245-6. Cal. of State Papers, Hen. VIII, Vol. VII, Nos. 939, 1020.
[780]Cromwell Corresp. 2nd Series, Vol. XXIII, f. 711 a (J. London to T. Cromwell, Aug. 14).
[781]Cromwell Corresp. 2nd Series, Vol. XXIII, f. 709 a (J. London to T. Cromwell, Aug. 14).
[782]The White Friars had already sold an annuity and divided the proceeds among themselves. Ibid.
[783]Or ‘vow’?
[784]Ibid. f. 709 b.
[785]Ibid. f. 711 a.
[786]Chapter House Books, A3⁄11, f. 29 (Rec. Off.).
[787]Mazer, a large drinking bowl (Skeat); ‘trees’ seems to mean merely wood.
[788]‘Knob.’
[789]Cromwell Corresp.ut supra, fol. 710 b.
[790]Ibid. fol. 711 a.
[791]Wright, Suppression, p. 217.
[792]Warden of the Grey Friars.
[793]Chapter House Books, A3⁄11, fol. 31 b.
[794]The request that he may live in Oxford, &c., is here inserted in Latin.
[795]Cromwell Corresp.ut supra, f. 710 b.
[796]Several words illegible in MS.
[797]W. Vavasour is I think the only Franciscan who studied at Oxford whose pension is recorded. Cf. Gasquet, II, 453-5.
[798]See Part II.
[799]Boase, Register, p. 222; Munk, Roll of the Royal College of Physicians, 2nd ed., Vol. I, p. 64. Oxf. Univ. Arch. Reg. I, 8, fol. 138b, 139, 139b, 190, 190b, 192b.
[800]Some dozen instances will be found in Part II; a few are rather doubtful.
[801]See J. Cardmaker, J. Crayford, Guy Etton.
[802]Private masses though declared to be meet and necessary and agreeable to God’s law, in the Six Articles, were no doubt falling into disfavour.
[803]Chapter House Books A3⁄11, 9-10.
[804]Cromwell Corresp. 2nd series, Vol. XXIII, f. 710 a-b.
[805]Augmentation Office Miscell. Books, Enrolment of Leases, Vol. CCXII, fol. 195 (Record Office).
[806]Particulars for Grants, Augm. Office, 35 Hen. VIII, sec. 4 (Record Office). It is among the deeds relating to Richard Andrews, but there is nothing to show that he and Howe were at that time in any sense the ‘farmers’ of the property.
[807]Cf. Dixon, Church of England, II, 212.
[808]Pat. Roll, 36 Hen. VIII, Part 3, m. 37; Originalia Rolls, 36 Hen. VIII, Pt. 4; V, m. 12.
[809]Originalia, 36 Hen. VIII, Pt. 4, m. xl.
[810]Wood-Clark, II, 411.
[811]Ibid. I, 310, note.
[812]Wood-Clark, II, 361, 396, note.
[813]Wood-Peshall, Ancient and Present State, p. 270.
[814]Dugdale, Vol. VI, Part 3, p. 1529: Wood-Clark, II, 389.
[815]Wood-Clark, II, 411.
[816]Hearne’s Pref. to Otterbourne; Parkinson was the author ofCollectanea Anglo-Minoritica.
[817]None of the printed books, so far as I know, contain any notice of the uses to which the materials of the Franciscan convent were put. Among MS. sources, I have examined the church-wardens’ accounts of Carfax (to which the Rector kindly gave me the fullest access). Wood MSS. C. 1, ‘ex archivis S. Petri de Bailly;’ and D. 2 (notes from parish archives). The early records of St. Ebbe’s and St. Giles’ are no longer to be found.
[818]Jessop, Coming of the Friars, p. 36.
[819]Mon. Franc. I, p. 6.
[820]Ibid. p. 10.
[821]Ibid. p. 21.
[822]Ibid. p. 27.
[823]Mon. Franc. I, p. 18.
[824]Ibid.
[825]Ibid. p. 30.
[826]When Eustace de Merc was warden, and Peter custodian.
[827]Ibid. p. 6. Phillipps, MS. 3119, fol. 71, contains the following note in an old hand (cf. Bale, Scriptores, II, 41): ‘Hic (W. de Esseby) aliquando temptatus a carne amputavit sibi genitalia zelo pudicicie; quo facto papam peciit et ab eo graviter correptus celebrandi divina meruit dispensacionem. Hic eciam Willelmus post multos annos quievit London.’
[828]Mon. Franc. I, p. 6.
[829]Ibid.
[830]Mon. Franc. I, 31, 43, 58, 61: see Part I, Chapter I.
[831]Mon. Franc. I, 52.
[832]Ibid. 53, 54.
[833]Ibid. 28.
[834]Ibid. 48-9.
[835]Ibid. 378.
[836]Ibid. 377, 56.
[837]Grostete, Epist. 334.
[838]Mon. Franc. 63, 308, 313: Grostete was at the Roman court at this time. Cologne was constituted a separate province in 1239. Anal. Franc. I, 290.
[839]Ibid. 71. For date, see W. of Nottingham.
[840]Ibid.: letter LXVIII.
[841]Mon. Franc. 64.
[842]Ibid. 63-4.
[843]Ibid. 537, 559.
[844]Ibid. 389.
[845]This is proved by Grostete’s Letters, No. cxiv. From a passage in a letter of Adam Marsh written at Lyons to the English Provincial, it would seem that Adam was at first accompanied by another ‘Friar J.’ and afterwards joined by J. de Stamford: ‘Rogo salutari obsequio meo carissimos patres, fratres Ric. de Wauz, J. de Stanford, reliquosque fratres socios sc. et filios vestros; in quorum, si placet, sanctis recordationibus me et fratrem J. renovare velitis in Domino.’ Mon. Franc. I, 378.
[846]Mon. Franc. I, 376-378.
[847]Grostete, Epist. p. 334.
[848]Mon. Franc. I, 71.
[849]Ibid. 338, 387.
[850]Ibid. 340.
[851]Ibid. 537, 559, 305.
[852]See Adam’s letters to him in Mon. Franc. I, p. 387, seq.
[853]Ibid. 305, 306.
[854]Ibid. 512.
[855]Dugdale Monast. VI, Pt. 3, p. 1522. Wadding says he became Archbishop of Dublin in 1284 (V, 134): this was J. of Sanford; Rymer, I, 655.
[856]Mon. Franc. I, 537; 42-43; 305, note.
[857]Letters CLXXVI and CCIII. Letter CLXXV was no doubt written to W. of Nottingham (P. of Tewkesbury being mentioned in it), but it is unsafe to ascribe the following letter to the same date. He is probably the warden referred to in Letter CC.
[858]Mon. Franc. I, 8.
[859]Ibid. 25.
[860]Ibid. 27. In Phillipps MS. fol. 74, is the note, ‘Iste frater Martinus (de Barton) obiit Northamton.’
[861]Appendix C.
[862]Wood-Clark, II, 387.
[863]Exchequer of Pleas; Plea Roll, 6 Edw. IV, m. 20 (cf. chapter VII); MS. Cotton Vitell. F xii, f. 289 b.
[864]Exchequer of Pleas, Plea Rolls, 3 Hen. VII, m. 35 (printed in App. B); 3 Hen. VII, m. 35, dorse; 4 Hen. VII, m. 17, dorse; 4 Hen. VII, m. 34, dorse.
[865]MS. Corp. Chr. Coll., Oxon, 227, fol. 46, containsAntonii Andreae tractatus de tribus principiis naturalibus: (In calce) scriptus per me fratrem Wyllelmum studentem Oxonie, aoincarnacionis Dom. 1419 [1491 ?]. Ibid. fol. 118Duns Scotus super Metheororum libros ires priores: (In calce) ‘Expliciunt questiones ... scripte per manum fratris Wyllelmi Vavysur eiusdem ordinis,A. D.1491.’ MS. 228 was also written by him in 1490.
[866]Wood, Fasti, p. 5.
[867]Cal. of State Papers, Hen. VIII, Vol. V, §§ 6, 18.
[868]Eighth Report of the Dep. Keeper, App. 2, under York.
[869]Misc. Books, Augment. Office, 233 (30-31 Hen. VIII), fol. 154 b.
[870]Acta Cur. Cancell.F, fol. 53 b: in the margin he is called ‘custos fratrum Minorum.’
[871]Reg. G 6, fol. 55. He was still at Oxford in June 1509; Acta Cur. Cancell.F, f. 92.
[872]MS. Cott. Vitell. F, XII, fol. 277 b. Mr. Brodrick seeks to identify Robert Burton, Fellow of Merton in 1480, Proctor in 1489, with the Minorite (Mem. of Merton Coll. 241); this seems to me more than doubtful.
[873]Acta Cur. Cancell.F, fol. 194: see App. B.
[874]The series of graces, &c., relating to W. Goodfield is printed in App. D.
[875]Boase, Register, p. 298.
[876]MS. Cott. Vitell. F, XII, fol. 277: ‘frater Walterus Goodfield, S.T.P. et gardianus loci.’
[877]Ibid.
[878]Acta Cur. Cancell.F, f. 212 b.
[879]Ibid. f. 261 b, 262 b.
[880]Ibid. EEE, f. 124 b. See App. B.
[881]Boase, Reg. p. 68. Reg. G 6, f. 220. Acta Cur. Cancell. EEE, 124 b. Reg. H 7, fol. 211 b.
[882]Reg. H. 7, fol. 185.
[883]Acta Cur. Cancell. EEE, fol. 393 b, 270 b.
[884]Reg. H. 7, f. 152 b, 153; Boase, Reg. 143.
[885]Reg. H. 7, fol. 257, 262 b.
[886]Ibid. fol. 263 b, 271 b; in the latter place he is called ‘pater edmundus Baskerfell frater ordinis minorum.’
[887]Foxe, V, p. 20: the Martyrologist calls him ‘an unlearned doctor.’
[888]Acta Cur. Cancell. EEE, fol. 173, 270, 322, 387, &c.
[889]See Part I, Chapter VII: Acta Cur. Cancell. EEE, f. 321 a, ‘Datum in edibus ffranciscanis,’ &c.
[890]Part I, Chapter VII.
[891]Acta Cur. Cancell. EEE, f. 336.
[892]Wright, Suppression, p. 217.
[893]Reliquary, Vol. XVIII, p. 21.
[894]See Part I, Chapter III. Eccleston begins the list with the words: ‘Ipsi vero inceperunt ut magistri.’
[895]Except perhaps Friar W. Lemster, but it is not certain to which Order he belonged; see notice of him,A. D.1290.
[896]Trivet, Annals, p. 243.
[897]Roger Bacon calls Grostete Adam’s ‘master.’ Op. Ined. 187.
[898]Mon. Franc. I, 145,ab annis juvenilibus.
[899]Ibid. pref. lxxvii-lxxviii.
[900]Lanercost Chron. p. 58, where Adam after his death is said to have appeared to a friar and said it was well with him, ‘because I have escaped the judgment, but that cursed church which I held for three years nearly gave me over to damnation.’
[901]Close Roll, 10 Henry III, m. 6.
[902]Mon. Franc. I, 15: ‘fuit autem tunc socius Magistri Adae de Marisco et ad robas suas.’
[903]M. Paris, Chr. Maj. V, 619-20.
[904]Ibid. p. 16. The date of his entry must have been between 1226 (when he wasMagisternotFrater, Close Roll,ut supra), and 1230. See Grostete’s Letters, pp. 17-21 written before 1231; and Wadding, II, 240. He probably entered the Order in 1227, or perhaps at the end of 1226. The entry on the Close Roll about the Bp. of Durham’s library is dated Worcester, Sept. 3. Canon Creighton puts the date of Adam’s entry into the Order ten years later. Dict. of Nat. Biogr.
[905]Wadding, II, 48. Evers, Analecta (Hist. of Friar Nic. Glasberger), p. 33. I have not been able to find any early authority for these statements. A letter from Adam to the Abbat of St. Andrew’s is extant. Mon. Franc. I, 206. The University of Vercelli was founded in 1228, and it is probably in this year, if at all, that Adam went there. Denifle, Die Universitäten des Mittelalters, I, 290.
[906]Wadding, II, 240-1. St. Anthony died 1231.
[907]The account in Eccleston refers to the deposition of Elias in 1239. Mon. Franc. I, 45-7.
[908]Cf. Trivet, Annals, p. 306.
[909]Mon. Franc. I, 135. Wood-Clark II, 364: Wood refers to Gascoigne, Liber Veritatum, I, 663: I have not seen the passage, which does not occur in the extracts edited by Hearne or Rogers; but Gascoigne cannot be regarded as an authority in this matter.
[910]Ibid. 232 (prob. Nov. 1252), 281, 335 (Jan. 1253), letter CXC was however probably written before this time, c. 1250, but I can find no other reference to either of the lawsuits mentioned there.
[911]Brewer in one place calls him Provincial of the Minorites (p. 613): this is a slip. Nor was he warden of the London convent; ‘Frater A. Gardianus Fratrum Minorum Londini’ (Mon. Franc. p. 181) was not A. de Marisco. See ibid. p. 396.
[912]Ibid. 49.
[913]Ibid. 77. Boniface was elected in 1240.
[914]Ibid. 355.
[915]Ibid. 414, seq.
[916]Ibid. 438-489.
[917]Ibid. 95, 609-612.
[918]Ibid. 342.
[919]Wadding, IV,anno1256.
[920]Mon. Franc. I, 139.
[921]Ibid. I, 99, 347.
[922]Grostete, Letters, 334.
[923]Cf. ibid. p. 302.
[924]Mon. Franc. I, p. 105.
[925]Ibid. p. 152.
[926]Ibid. p. 275.
[927]Lanercost Chron. p. 24.
[928]Ibid.
[929]Liberate Roll, 31 Hen. III, m. 4 (App. B).
[930]Ibid. 42 Hen. III, m. 3.
[931]Mon. Franc. 294, 295, 298, 299.
[932]Ibid. I, 264.
[933]Mon. Franc. I, 225, 264; and the long account of his trial, p. 122. Cf. Part I, p. 32.
[934]Ibid. 268, &c.
[935]Ibid. 266-7. A sentence at the end of the letter seems to refer to the defeat of St. Louis at Mansourah. Cf. pp. 278-9. (The translation is Brewer’s.)
[936]Ibid. 137, 244, 398. See also Brewer’s preface.
[937]Ibid. 305, 348, 367.
[938]Nic. Trivet, Annals, p. 243; Mon. Franc. I, p. 185.
[939]M. Paris, Chron. Majora, V, 619. Cf. Mon. Franc. I, 412.
[940]Mon. Franc. I, 305.
[941]Liberate Roll, 42 Hen. III, m. 3.
[942]W. of Worcester,Itin.p. 81, from Franciscan Martyrology of Salisbury.
[943]Lanerc. Chron. p. 58.
[944]Bale and Pits give lists of his works, but produce no authority. Leland states on the evidence of theCatalogus de eruditis Franciscanis, which he had seen in the Minorite convent at Oxford, that Adam wrote ‘a fair number of commentaries on Holy Scripture.’ One edition of Barth. of Pisa (Bononiae, 1620) mentions as his works, Elucidarium Scripturae, and Theological Lectures. This passage is not in the edition of 1510. It is not probable that the ‘Ordinances for the household of Bishop Grostete,’ or rather Grostete’s Rules for the Countess of Lincoln, are by Adam. Mon. Franc. I, 582. Royal Hist. Soc.,Walter of Henley, pp. xlii, 122.
[945]Not his contemporaries, as Brewer states. I do not know when the title first originated.
[946]Chron. Majora, V, 619.
[947]Epist. Nos. XX and XCIX.
[948]Op. Ined. 70, 74-5, 88, 186, 428.
[949]Mon. Franc. I, 39, and n. 1. Cf. ibid. 542, ‘Rodulphus de Corbrug.’ Cf. Collect. Anglo-Minoritica, 48.
[950]The good effects of Eustace’s conversion were commented on by ‘Peter, minister of England,’ 1251-1256 (Mon. Franc. I, 40). But Eustace entered the Order during the ministry of W. of Nottingham. Two of the letters (Nos. 178 and 200) in which Adam Marsh mentions Eustace as a friar are addressed to ‘Friar W., minister of England,’ but several of these superscriptions are undoubtedly wrong and the rest consequently of little value. Letter 179, however, written at the same time as 178 and stating Eustace’s refusal to lecture at Norwich, is addressed to Robert of Thornham, who was then evidently custodian of Cambridge (Mon. Franc. I, 62). In a letter to W. of Nottingham (No. 173) Adam states that this Robert was just starting for the Holy Land, and as he certainly went (Mon. Franc. I, 62), there is no reason to suppose that he delayed long. What then is the date of letter 173? That the superscription is correct is shown by the mention in the letter of Peter, minister of Cologne, i.e. P. of Tewkesbury, William’s successor in England; Adam also mentions his regret at being unable to accompany Grostete to the Roman court owing to his having to assist the Archbishop of Canterbury. These details fix the date of Robert’s departure (or resolution to depart) to Palestine at 1250: thus letter 179 cannot have been written later than 1250, and Eustace must have entered the Order in that year at latest. He witnesses a charter as friar in 1251; Wood, MS. D 2, p. 537.
[951]Le Neve and others place his chancellorship in 1276; Eccleston certainly saysfuerat. Mon. Franc. I, 39, note 2, 41; Phillipps, MS. fol. 76 a.
[952]Mon. Franc. I, pp. 319, 321.
[953]Ibid. p. 39.
[954]Ibid. p. 555.
[955]Mon. Franc. I, 378. Cf. p. 395 (letter to Th. of York, 1252?), ‘Mittit vobis frater Laurentius (Adam’s secretary) quaternos matris prophetiae (?) pro quibus misistis,’ &c.
[956]Ibid. p. 90-1. When John Erlandi became Bishop of Roskild, I do not know: he was translated to the Archbishopric of Lundia in 1254; Langebek, Script. rer. Dan. Vol. V, p. 583.
[957]Ibid. 114-5.
[958]Ibid. 392. In the same letter is the sentence: ‘Nuper mihi de curia Romana allatum est Apostolicae Sedis privilegium, pro quo laborare sui gratia voluit amantissimus frater J., domini papae nuntius.’ Cf. reference to the same on p. 313 (A. D.1250).
[959]Mon. Franc. I, 357.
[960]Ibid. 338, 346.
[961]Part I, Chapter III.
[962]Ibid. 39: but see ibid. p. 552, ‘Notandum,’ &c.; the last words should be ‘et quintus ponitur frater T. de Eboraco.’
[963]Ibid. 555.
[964]Ibid. 357, 392-5.
[965]Ibid. 115. Cf. 393, ‘Bene fecistis ... qui pro patre secundum carnem dilecti fratris J. de Beverlaco in negotio suae salutis tam consultum vigilantiae fidelis adjutorium, nec non et in caeteris praesertim ad salutem animarum pertinentibus, tam exquisita circumspectione exhibere voluistis.’
[966]Leland, Scriptores,sub nomine; cf. Part I, p. 58.
[967]That Ric. Rufus and Ric. of Cornwall were one and the same is proved by Cotton MS. of Eccleston, f. 77, where ‘rufus’ is added in an old hand in the margin, and by Phillipps, MS. of Eccleston, fol. 76 a, ‘Ricardus Rufus Cornubiensis.’ Cf. Mon. Franc. I, 16. He is probably identical with ‘Ricardus le Ruys,’ whose commentary on the sentences Bale saw at Norwich, ‘in claustro monachorum.’ Script. II, 81.
[968]Mon. Franc. I, 16, 39.
[969]Phillipps, MS. 3119, f. 76 a. ‘Iste Ricardus veniens in Angliam narravit in capitulo Oxon’, quod, cum unus frater Parisius extasi staret, visum erat ei quod frater Egidius laicus sed contemplativus sedit in cathedra legens autenticas septem peticiones dominice oracionis cuius omnes auditores erant tamen fratres in ordine lectores. Intrans autem S. Franciscus primo siluit et postea sic clamavit, O quam verecundum est vobis quod talis frater laycus excedit vestra merita sursum in celo (?). Et quia inquid sciencia inflat, caritas autem edificat, plures sunt venerati fratres clerici ... in eterno regno dei.’ (MS. imperf.)
[970]Mon. Franc. I, 330, 365, 366.
[971]Ibid. 360, 365. In an agreement drawn up in 1252, after a quarrel between the Northerners and the Irish in Oxford, and signed by representatives of the two parties, the name of ‘Ricardus Cornubiensis’ appears among the Irishmen (Wood, Annals, 246). This was no doubt a namesake of the friar, who is often confused with the friar; he is mentioned in Grostete’s Epist. p. 138, Mon. Franc. I, 135, Le Neve, Fasti, II, 184, &c.
[972]Mon. Franc. I, 366.
[973]Ibid. 349.
[974]Ibid. 39. Bacon says, ‘solemniter legebat;’ see below.
[975]It may be considered certain that Thomas of York became lector in 1253 and that Richard succeeded him—whether immediately or not is a little doubtful; the Cotton MS. of Eccleston calls Richardsextus(lector), instead ofquintus.
[976]Royal MS. (Brit. Mus.) 7 F, VII, fol. 81; cf. Charles, Roger Bacon, 415; the MS. is very inaccurate, Charles still more so.
[977]Auctorem, not in MS.
[978]MS.errorem.
[979]Charles readspriusquam.
[980]MS.legeret.
[981]‘Cui conversationis honestas et claritas scientiae, pietas affectionis et opinionis integritas, facultas erudiendi et disserendi subtilitas,’ &c. Mon. Franc. I, 365.
[982]Durham Wills (Surtees Soc.), Vol. I, pp. 10-11.
[983]Mon. Franc. I., 542.
[984]See notice of H. de Brisingham.
[985]Barth. of Pisa, Liber Conform. fol. 81.
[986]Wadding, IV, 325.
[987]Peckham’s Register, II, 421-2.
[988]Hist. Litt. de France, t. xxv, p. 178.
[989]This MS. belonged to the London Franciscans.
[990]Probably theSummaof John Lector of Freiburg; see p. 150.
[991]Ascribed to Thomas Wallensis.
[992]Stated to have been composed at the request ofEpiscopus Maglonensis, i.e. Magalona, Narbonne.
[993]Mentioned again by Tanner, as a different work under the title,De ordinatione universali.
[994]i.e.Breviloq. de IV virtutibus.
[995]The name of the author is given in a hand considerably later than the MS.
[996]Mémoires de l’Académie des inscriptions, t. XXX, pp. 45-55: Peter was a Benedictine who lived and wrote at Avignon from 1320 to 1340. M. Hauréau has no doubt made out his case.
[997]Another handbook for confessors is occasionally found bound up with works of John Wallensis. See MSS. St. Omer 622, § 6,Tract. de instructione confessorum, and Charleville 113, § 2,Libellus de modo audiendi confessiones. Inc.: ‘Simpliciores et minus expertos confessores.’ It is by John Lector of Freiburg: MS. Mazarine 1322. Hist. Litt. xxv. 269.
[998]There is an error in Tanner’s extracts from Bury (p. xxxiii): ‘Quoniam misericordia’ given as theincipitofDe disciplinabelongs to the preceding work,Compendiloquium. Cf. Bale, MS. Seld. supra 64, fol. 83; Tanner, Bibl. 435.
[999]Royal MS. 3 B. XII (sec. xv): ‘Liber magistri Thome Gude, i.e. Boni, Doctoris sacre Theologie Oxonie et Ordinis Minorum, vocati Dockyng, eo quod natus fuit in villa vocata Dockyng.’
[1000]Mon. Franc. I, 359-360: the letter mentions ‘the irrevocable intention of Friar R. of Cornwall.’
[1001]Or 1265? See notices of H. of Brisingham and W. of Heddele.
[1002]App. C.
[1003]Hist. of Norfolk, IV, 111; no authority is given.
[1004]He is probably the ‘Bokkyng’ quoted by William of Ockham (Goldast, p. 957); and he is often referred to by Thomas Gascoigne.
[1005]At the end of this commentary: ‘Explicit lectura H. M. et d. Dockyng super Epistolam ad Ephesios.’
[1006]At the end of this MS. (sec. xv): ‘Explicit expositio ffratris Thome Dockyng super preceptis decalogi secundum formam textus deutronomii quinti.’ The same volume contains an anonymous treatise on the creed (‘de sufficientia articulorum in Simbolo,’ &c.:Inc.‘Est quedam mensura fidei’), which Bale (MS. Seld. sup. 64, f. 177) carelessly identifies with Docking’sEpos. decalogi; and an anonymous treatise on the decalogue, which Tanner ascribes to Docking (Inc.‘Si autem vis ad vitam ingredi’): cf. MS. Laud. Misc. 524, fol. 67 b (olim Laud. F. 12).
[1007]Tanner (Bibl. 230) mentions hisCorrectiones in S. Scripturam, ‘MS. olim in monast. Sion;’ andTabulam super Grammaticam Dokking, MS. Linc. Cathed. Libr. F. 18.
[1008]Brewer’s reading ‘A. de Brisigham’ is incorrect: MSS. Cott. Nero, A IX, and Phillipps, 3119, f. 76.
[1009]MS. Laud. Misc. 2, fol. 159 b.
[1010]‘Frater T. Brisigham, sed incepit Oxoniae, &c.’ Mon. Franc. I, 555.
[1011]Hist. of Norfolk, IV, p. 114. Cf. Bale,Script.
[1012]Bale,Script.II, 93-4; MS. Seld. sup. 64, fol. 65 b; Wadding,Script.166. This may equally well have been Henry de Apeltre, the twelfth lector.
[1013]Mon. Franc. I, 360.
[1014]Appendix C.
[1015]Lan. Chron. p. 81.
[1016]Mon. Franc. I, 537, 552, 555, 560. Blomefield, Norfolk, IV, 114. Charles, Roger Bacon, p. 24.
[1017]Leland, Script. p. 302.
[1018]Peckham,Registrum, p. 902: ‘in ipsius vicinia coaluimus a parvo, et ab ejusdem professoribus solatia recepimus et honores.’
[1019]Mon. Franc. I, 256. The date is uncertain. Adam Marsh describes him, ‘quem et honestior conversatio et litteratura provectior commendabiliter illustrant.’ For the spelling of the name, cf. Rymer’s Foed. I, 800, ‘Peschan.’
[1020]This is merely a deduction from the fact that Adam Marsh wrote about his entering the Order.
[1021]Registrum, p. 977. It is hardly necessary to add that he was not a student at Merton; as Archbishop, he was patron of the college; ibid. 123.
[1022]Mon. Franc. I, 537, 552. Trivet, Annales, p. 299.
[1023]Regist. p. 315.
[1024]Ibid. 866, 898. Henry of Ghent was also present; see hisQuodlibeta, Quodl. II, quaest. ix.
[1025]Regist. III, xcvii, seq. (preface).
[1026]N. Trivet, p. 299.
[1027]Close Roll, 3 Edw. I, m. 18, dorse.
[1028]Mon. Franc. I, 537, 560. Mr. Martin says that Provincial Ministers were at this time appointed by the General: this was the case at first, but the custom was departed from as early as the time of William of Nottingham (1240). Mon. Franc. I, 59.
[1029]Mon. Franc. I, 560. Trivet, 299, Lanerc. Chron. 100; Denifle, I, 301, seq.
[1030]Lanercost Chron. 100, ‘post biennium.’ Nicholas III was elected Nov. 25, 1277; this leaves little more than a year before Peckham’s nomination to the Archiepiscopate; but it is not likely that he was made lector by John XXI. Le Neve, Fasti; Milman, VI, 410.
[1031]Registrum, pp. 210, 248.
[1032]Ibid. 715, 68-9, 38-9.
[1033]Lanerc. Chron. 144; Wadding, V, 53, 80:Registrum, I, pref. lx, xcix.
[1034]Mon. Franc. I, 537.
[1035]MS. Cott. Vitell. F, XII, f. 274.
[1036]Rymer, I, 800. An account of his bequests to Christ Church, Canterbury, will be found in the Public Library at Cambridge, MS. Ee, V, 31, f. 74 b.
[1037]Annales, p. 299.
[1038]Nicholas Glasberger says that he wrote a life of St. Anthony of Padua, ‘miro stilo,’ at the command of the Minister-General, Jerome of Ascoli. Anal. Franc. II, 91.
[1039]Mon. Franc. I, 552, 555. See H. de Brisingham, note 5. (Appletree in Derby, or in Northampton, or Appletree-Wick in Yorkshire?)
[1040]He may be the same as Robert de Sancta Cruce who went to the Minister General with a letter of recommendation from Adam Marsh (c. 1250?). Mon. Franc. I, 333.
[1041]Peckham, Reg. 117-8.
[1042]Mon. Franc. I, 537, 560.
[1043]Pat. 12 Edw. I, m. 9.
[1044]Peckham, Reg. 820.
[1045]Pat. 13 Edw. I, m. 27.
[1046]Peckham, Reg. 909.
[1047]Mon. Franc. I, 537, 560.
[1048]Mon. Franc. I, 552, 555, 560. Other variations are Merston (ibid. 537, and Assisi MS. 158, quest. 6) and Mirstun (Assisi MS. 158, quest. 134).