‘MS. olim in monast. Sion;’ and _Tabulam 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 his
_Quodlibeta_, 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).
[1049] Assisi MS. 158, questions 6, 134, 144. Qu. 134 runs thus:
‘Disputacio Rogeri de Mirstun ordinis minorum.’ (Inc.) ‘Circa emanacionem
eternam.’ (At end): ‘Ad (?) hanc questionem respondetur quod essencia est
principium, quo sit omnis productio.’
[1050] Mon. Franc. I, 555: ‘incepit Oxoniae.’
[1051] Archiv f. Litt. u. K. Gesch. d. M. III, 459; cf. 413. Are any of
his writings extant except the questions at Assisi?
[1052] Blomefield’s Norfolk, IV, 112.
[1053] Mon. Franc. I, 537.
[1054] Assisi MS. 158 twice mentions _Waker_, who may be this Wakerfield.
Quest. 76, and at the end of the volume ‘Waker dis(putavit) R(espondit)
Penn(ard).’
[1055] Appendix C.
[1056] In Devon’s Exchequer Issue Rolls, Hen. III-Hen. VI, p. 114, there
is mention of ‘Master Nicholas de Ocham,’ 30 Edw. I.
[1057] Assisi MS. 158, questions 161-3, 165 (of considerable length), 123,
‘questio in vesperiis de Hotham’; and near the end of the volume, ‘questio
Hotham in vesperiis cnol (?) Oxon. Respondit persel.’ The last letter in
the name ‘Cnol’ is uncertain; but it is probably Walter de Knolle, Ocham’s
successor at Oxford. Cf. H. de Hertepol and J. de Persora below.
[1058] Tanner, Bibl. 556.
[1059] Wadding, Sup. ad Script. 563.
[1060] Mon. Franc. I, 552, 556.
[1061] Savage, Balliofergus, p. 15.
[1062] In MS. 158 at Assisi. See Part I, Chapter III.
[1063] Ibid. quest. 185.
[1064] Q. R. Wardr. 8/2 (R.O.), this refutes the statement in Collect.
Angl. Min. that he was unanimously elected in 1300.
[1065] Wood, MS. F, 29 a, fol. 178.
[1066] Q. R. Wardr. 13/35, m. 1. Cf. Rymer’s Foed. I, 936.
[1067] Almain Roll. 30 Edw. I (R.O.). Cf. Mon. Franc. I, 514 (1302).
[1068] Rodulphus, quoted by Wadding, Script. 360.
[1069] Mon. Franc. I, 537. The author of ‘Collis Paradisi’ (?) however
quotes the following epitaph: ‘Hic jacet Fr. Hugo de Hergilpol Anglicus
Mag. in S. T. quondam Minister Angliae, qui obiit III id. Septembris A. D.
MCCC seđo. Orate pro anima ejus.’ Wadding, ibid. The General Chapter met
at Assisi in 1304, Archiv f. L. u. K. Gesch. VI, 67. Hugh was appointed
ambassador to Rome, Sept. 9, 1302.
[1070] Bale, _Script._, I. 413; Leland, _Script._, 326; J. Picus Mirand.,
_Opera Omnia_ (Basel, 1572), Tom. I. _Contra Astrol._, Book XII.
[1071] Wood-Clark, II, 371. Memorials of Merton Coll. 185, n. 1.
[1072] ‘Fratri Barnabe Magistro fratrum Minorum;’ the rest of the passage
is worn away: Q. R. Wardrobe, 25/1 (R.O.). The note in MS. Merton Coll.
55, f. 261, ‘memoriale fratris Thome de Barneby pro 14 solidis,’ is of the
fifteenth century.
[1073] Mon. Franc. I, 537, 560.
[1074] See notice of Richard Conyngton.
[1075] Wilkins, Concilia, II, 399.
[1076] Mon. Franc. I, 537.
[1077] Geynysborough, Geynisborn, Geinesburgh, &c.
[1078] Mon. Franc. I, 553, ‘qui primus (prius?) fuerat minister.’ This was
by no means unprecedented; Anal. Franc. I, 16: ‘Minister Generalis ...
absolvit fratrem Simonem a ministerio Theutoniae et lectorem instituit.’
Cf. instances among the Dominicans, Martene, Thes. Nov. Anecd. IV, pp.
1791, 1822.
[1079] Peckham, Regist. 909. Mon. Franc. I, 537, 560. Cf. Chapter House
Records (R.O.), A 1/22, p. 61: ‘fratri Willelmo de Geynesburg’ ministro
fratrum minorum in Anglia revertenti in Angliam de Burdeg’ ad expensas
suas ... de dono Regis lxvi{s} viii{d} sterl’;’ May 13 (1287 ?).
[1080] Trivet, Annales, 331.
[1081] Queen’s Remembr. Wardrobe, 8/2, m. 1 (R.O.).
[1082] ‘Wardrobe Account 28 Edw. I,’ ed. Topham, p. 164. Mon. Franc. I,
537, 553, 560, ‘qui in curia Romana legit cursorie et ordinarie.’ Lanerc.
Chron. says he was called to the Curia to read theology ‘coram
cardinalibus,’ p. 194.
[1083] ‘Wardrobe Account,’ _ut supra_ (May, 1300).
[1084] Lanerc. Chron. 194; cf. date of his appointment to Worcester.
[1085] Almain Roll, 28 Edw. I (R.O.).
[1086] Ibid. 30 Edw. I.
[1087] Le Neve, Fasti, III, 53. Annal. Monast. IV, 554, 555. For a full
account of the inthronization, see Thomas, Survey of Worcester, App. No.
76.
[1088] Pat. Roll, in Le Neve, III, 53, n. 96. Cf. Stubbs, Const. Hist.
III, 308-9.
[1089] Thomas, Survey, App. No. 77; cf. Ann. Monast. IV, 556.
[1090] Cf. Rymer’s Foed. I, p. 979.
[1091] Lanerc. Chron. 206.
[1092] Rymer’s Foed. I, 1012; Lanerc. Chron. 210.
[1093] Rot. Rom. I Edw. II, m. 10 (Le Neve); Thomas, Survey, App. No. 78.
[1094] Thomas, ibid.
[1095] Lanerc. Chron. 210.
[1096] Mon. Franc. I, 537, 553.
[1097] Assisi MS. 158, quest. 119: ‘Disputavit Gilbertus (Stratton?);
Respondit Rundel minor.’
[1098] Phillipps MS. 3119, fol. 76, ‘qui legerat sentencias Parisius.’
[1099] Wilkins, Concil. II, 336, 337, &c.; cf. 370, ‘presentibus magistris
minorum et predicatorum, gardiano minorum,’ &c.
[1100] Mon. Franc. I, 553.
[1101] Phillipps MS., _ut supra_.
[1102] Wood MS. F, 29 a, f. 178.
[1103] Mon. Franc. I, 556.
[1104] Pat. 14 Edw. II, m. 9.
[1105] ‘In festo Epiphanie; Minorum; Houdene.’ The MS. dates from the
latter part of the 14th cent., but we may without much hesitation identify
‘Houdene’ with Adam of Hoveden, as the other preachers mentioned belong to
the end of the 13th century, e.g. Henry de Sutton, friar minor, Symon de
Gandavo, Chancellor (Oxford), &c.
[1106] Wood MS. F, 29 a, f. 178.
[1107] Assisi MS. 158, quest. 179. Ric. de Hederington succeeded to the
prebend of Ailesbury in 1290. Le Neve, II, 95.
[1108] Brewer’s reading Haldeswel is wrong. The Phillipps MS. also reads
Baldeswelle.
[1109] Wood MS., _ut supra_.
[1110] Wood MS., _ut supra_.
[1111] Archiv f. Litt. u. Kirch. Gesch. II, 361; III, 39; IV, 28 seq.
[1112] Script. cent. V, 26.
[1113] See above.
[1114] Mon. Franc. I, 556.
[1115] Ibid. 538, 560. Reports of Hist. MSS. Commission, IV, 393 a, letter
of Gonsalvo, Minister General to ‘Friar R. minister of England,’ 1310.
[1116] Archiv f. Litt. u. K. Gesch. II, 356; III, 39; Wadding, VI, 171.
[1117] Mon. Franc. I, 538, 553. Bale gives 1330 as the date of his death.
[1118] Leland, Script. 331; Bale, I, 404.
[1119] Wadding, VII, 168.
[1120] MS. Bodl., Seld. supra 64, fol. 160.
[1121] Wood MS., _ut supra_; Wilkins’ Concilia, II, 399; Lea, Hist. of the
Inquisition, III, 301.
[1122] Mon. Franc. I, 553. Cf. Digby MS. 154, f. 37 (sec. xiii, xiv);
Letters of Friars P. de S. and others, to Roger de Merlawe, c. 1290-1300
(v. ibid. f. 38).
[1123] MS. Cott. Nero, A, IX.
[1124] MS. Phillipps, 3119; Brewer’s ‘Rockysley’ is a mistake.
[1125] Mon. Franc. I, 553.
[1126] Wood MS. F, 29 a, &c.
[1127] Twyne, MS. III, 327 (Acta fratrum Praedicatorum). ‘Item Fratri
Henrico Croy conventus fratrum Praedicatorum antedicti, Baculario Sacrae
Theologiae pro Inceptione in Theologia se disponenti responsiones ad hoc
secundum statuta Universitatis praedictae necessario requisitae per
magistrum Willelmum de Schireburn magistrum Fratrum Minorum et alios etiam
magistros prius concessae, de ordinatione ipsorum Cancellarii et
Procuratorum ac quorundam aliorum magistrorum, sunt penitus denegatae.’
(Oxf. Hist. Soc. Collectanea, II, 241.)
[1128] Tanner, Bibl. 668. Harl. MS. 5398 (§ 3) contains a Sermon
attributed to John Schyrborn.
[1129] Mon. Franc. I, 70, 538.
[1130] Ball. Coll. MS. 33.
[1131] Merton Coll. MSS. 166, 168, 169, 170, 158.
[1132] Mon. Franc. I, 538, 560.
[1133] Wadding, VI, 396-7: he confuses William Provincial of England with
William of Ockham; VII, _sub anno_ 1323.
[1134] MS. Seld. sup. 64, fol. 215.
[1135] Mon. Franc. I, 538.
[1136] Mun. Acad. p. 100.
[1137] Annals, _sub anno_ 1270; elsewhere Wood calls him John Middleton,
Minorite, ibid. p. 386.
[1138] Script. Brit. I, 365.
[1139] Bibl. p. 778.
[1140] I have not found this reference; Baconthorpe’s commentaries on
Sentences I and II fill a folio volume of 378 leaves (Milan, 1510).
[1141] According to the Old Catalogue, MS. Bodl. 783 contains a treatise
by a John Wylton (the monk of Westminster?); the entry is erroneous; the
MS. (now Laud. Misc. 677) contains nothing about John Wylton.
[1142] Mon. Franc. I, 553.
[1143] Wood MS., _ut supra_. Another William of Alnwick was bishop of
Norwich and Lincoln in the fifteenth century.
[1144] Mon. Franc. I, 553: ‘postea apud Montem Bononiae Neapoli legit;
demum Episcopus.’
[1145] Wadding, VI, 396; Anal. Franc. II, 129: ‘Hugo de Novo Castro et
Gulielmus de Almuchia, sacrae theologiae doctores.’
[1146] Wadding, VII, 112, 169, ‘ex Regest. Rob. Regis Siciliae.’
[1147] Bale and Pits.
[1148] Lib. Conform. f. 81 b, ‘Almoith.’
[1149] MS. Harl. 31, f. 96 b.
[1150] Tanner, Bibl. 354, says his commentaries on the Sentences ‘extant
impr.... Lip.’ (?)
[1151] P. 135, a curious story about the Jews at Paris; ‘frater W.
Herbert, qui vidit,’ &c.
[1152] Bernard’s Catalogues, Tom. II, no. 9159: Phillipps Catal. No. 8336;
the same volume contains some works of Friar Nicholas Bozon (‘Boioun’). I
have not had an opportunity of examining these works of Herbert’s, which
are probably of some value.
[1153] Not mentioned in the Phillipps Catalogue.
[1154] _Inc._: ‘Ha troe yat art so vayr y kud;’ Phill. Catal.
[1155] Mon. Franc. I, 553.
[1156] Ibid. 554.
[1157] Ibid.
[1158] MS. Digby, 212, f. 2.
[1159] Hist. MSS. Commission, Report IV, 443 (deed in Ball. Coll.
Archives).
[1160] Hist. MSS. Commission, Report IV, 443 (deed in Ball. Coll.
Archives).
[1161] Leland’s authority was probably the Catalogue of Franciscan writers
in which R. of Leicester was mentioned: ‘colligo hunc (Robertum) fuisse
Guil. Hereberti synchronium, instructus serie Catalogi _De Scriptoribus
Franciscanis_, editi;’ _Scriptores_, p. 304.
[1162] A monk of this name is mentioned in MS. 24 of Corp. Chr. Coll.
Cambridge, A. D. 1348.
[1163] Chtantton (_sic_) in MS. Nero A, IX; omitted in Phillipps MS. The
name is given in a variety of forms: Certhanton or Certanton (Wood),
Southampton (Brewer), Catton, Gathon, Chattodunus (Leland), Ceton, Cepton,
Tepton (Barth. of Pisa, Pits, &c.), Schaton (N. Glasberger, Analecta
Francisc. II, 166), Canton (‘Chronologia historico-legalis seraphici
Ordinis Fratrum Minorum,’ Neapoli, 1650; quoted ibid. note 5), Chvaton
(Baronius-Raynaldus).
[1164] Twyne, MS. XXIII, 488, from the Oxford City Records; cf. Part I,
ch. iv.
[1165] Blomefield, Hist, of Norfolk, IV, p. 112. There is a Catton near
Norwich.
[1166] Baronius-Raynaldus, Ann. Ecclesiast. Vol. XXV, p. 92; Anal. Franc.
II, p. 166.
[1167] Script. Brit. I, 420.
[1168] Liber Conformitatum, f. 81 b; Defensorium, cap. 62 (Twyne, MS.
XXII, 103 c).
[1169] Woodford refers to ‘Chatone’s’ commentaries on the Sentences; MS.
Harl. 31, ff. 61, 96.
[1170] Script. I, p. 409.
[1171] Cf. MS. Seld. sup. 64, f. 75.
[1172] Tanner, Bibl. p. 473: ‘MS. olim in bibl. Sion.’ The work is however
printed and ascribed to Laurence Valla (see Panzer, Ann. Typ.).
[1173] Archiv f. Litt. u. Kirch. Gesch. II, 171.
[1174] Fratini, _Storia ... del Convento di S. Francesco in Assisi_
(Prato, 1882), p. 205.
[1175] Mon. Franc. I, 560; Tanner, Bibl. 638.
[1176] Mon. Franc. I, 554, 560, 538. Cf. John Major, Gesta Scotorum, I,
cap. 5.
[1177] Mon. Franc. I, 538, 554.
[1178] Ibid. 538.
[1179] Ibid.
[1180] Willott, Athenae, pp. 237-8. According to Sbaralea, the _Thesaurus_
was approved in 1503, parts were printed at Milan in 1506, and the entire
work was preserved in the Franciscan Library at Assisi; Wadding, Sup. ad
Script. p. 451.
[1181] The ‘G’ is certainly wrong; the initial ‘T’ is inserted in a later
hand in Cott. MS. The name is doubtful; MS. reads Stanscħ or Stanftħ.
[1182] Tanner, Bibl. 691.
[1183] MS. Seld. supra 64, fol. 175; Script. I, 427-8.
[1184] MS. and Script. _ut supra_.
[1185] Barth. of Pisa, Liber Conformitatum, f. 81 b; Wadding, VI, 344.
John Major, who edited a version of his Sentences in 1512, calls him: ‘Vir
modestus, sed non inferioris doctrinae aut ingenii quam Ockam,’ Gesta
Scot. Lib. IV, cap. 21.
[1186] Tanner, Bibl. 329; Wadding, VIII, 139; J. Major’s preface to
Wodham’s Sentences, ed. 1512.
[1187] Wadding, Sup. ad Script. 327.
[1188] Analecta Franciscana, II, 177.
[1189] Bale, Script. I, 447.
[1190] In the Bibliothèque de l’Arsenal, MS. 514 (_olim_ 551) has the
note: ‘Verisimile est authorem hujus libri esse magistrum Adamum de
Rodromo’ (i.e. Wodham). The MS. really contains only Peter Lombard’s
Sentences without any commentary.
[1191] Cf. notice of Walter Chatton.
[1192] Bale adds that he wrote _Sententias et conclusiones_, Lib. I,
‘Absolutio criminis sive peccati’ (on the power of the Mendicants to hear
confessions, especially against Wetheringsete), _ex officina Ricardi
Kele_; _Sententias Oxoniensis consilii_, Lib. I, ‘Sententie septem
ponuntur’ (?). MS. Bodl. Seld. sup. 64, fol. 9. For Wetheringsete or
Wetherset, see Tanner, Bibl. 759.
[1193] Mon. Franc. I, 560.
[1194] Ibid. 538.
[1195] W. of Nottingham, 17th Minister in 1322; Thomas Kingesbury, 26th
Minister in 1380; the dates between these are uncertain.
[1196] Script. Brit. I, 432.
[1197] Mon. Franc. I, 538, 560.
[1198] Unless the conjecture about J. Valeys is correct.
[1199] Digby, MS. 90, f. 6b (14th century), in Bodleian.
[1200] Tanner, Bibl. 567. The chronicle is in Brit. Mus. MS. Cotton,
Vitell. F, IX.
[1201] The name is unfortunately not clearly written in the Cott. MS: it
may be _Vilers_: cf. Memorials of Merton Coll. p. 199.
[1202] Wood, Annals, A. D. 1349.
[1203] Pat. 1 Ric. II, pt. 4, m. 37.
[1204] Mon. Franc. I, p. 5.
[1205] Wadding, I, 303; Anal. Franc. II, pp. 14-15.
[1206] Christ. Davenport, Opera omnia (Duaci 1665), Tom. I, Hist. Minor,
p. 2: he adds, ‘Originale meo adhuc tempore in Episcopio Audomarensi
servabatur.’
[1207] Mon. Franc. I, p. 5. Cf. Lanerc. Chron. p. 30; Annals of Worc. p.
416 (Ann. Monast. IV).
[1208] Mon. Franc., ibid.
[1209] Ibid. 53-4.
[1210] Ibid. 34, 35, 36-7.
[1211] Mon. Franc. I, 37; cf. Barth. of Pisa, fol. 79 b.
[1212] Mon. Franc. ibid.
[1213] Chron. Majora, III, 257: ‘familiaris erat domino regi et
consiliarius ipsius.’
[1214] Ibid. Cf. p. 251; Mon. Franc. I, 52; Ann. Monast. I, 92.
[1215] Mon. Franc. ibid.
[1216] He was present at the translation of the body of St. Francis in
1230; ibid. 5.
[1217] Mon. Franc. I, 52-4, account of his death, &c.
[1218] This is supported by MS. Cott. Nero A. IX, f. 70 b: ‘A{o} domini
MCC 35 frater Agnellus ... obiit,’ and Cott. Cleop. B. XIII, f. 146 b.
[1219] Mon. Franc. I, 52.
[1220] Ibid. 54; Barth. of Pisa, fol. 79, 80; 126, ‘miraculis pluribus
decoratus.’
[1221] Mon. Franc. I, 5-7, 7, 9, 10, 27. I have found no authority for the
form ‘Kingesthorp’ which Leland, and his followers Bale and Pits,
substitute for Ingewrthe, except a late marginal note in Phillipps MS.
3119, f. 71.
[1222] Mon. Franc. I, 6, 7, 9, 10. Bale’s statement that R. of Devon and
W. Eton ‘seipsos castrabant’ is probably without any foundation, so far as
the former is concerned; see William of Esseby.
[1223] Mon. Franc. I, 15. In the Phillipps MS. of Eccleston he is called
‘Ada de Exonia’ (fol. 72 b).
[1224] Ibid. 15-16.
[1225] ‘_Toto famosus orbe_,’ probably when Eccleston wrote, i.e. after
Adam’s death.
[1226] ‘In die conversionis Sancti Pauli;’ Mon. Franc. I, 15.
[1227] ‘Fuit autem tunc socius Magistri Adae de Marisco et ad robas suas;’
ibid.
[1228] Ibid. 16.
[1229] Letter II (pp 17-21): Grostete was then Archdeacon of Leicester, an
office which he resigned in 1231.
[1230] Mon. Franc. I, 16.
[1231] Ibid. 15.
[1232] See Grosseteste, Epistolae, Nos. I, XXXVIII, and p. 449.
[1233] Mon. Franc. I, 45, 47.
[1234] Ib. 25, 32.
[1235] Ibid. 549, cf. p. 32: ‘Fratrem Albertum in loco Leycestriae ...
recepit.’ Leland’s notes are from the Phillipps MS. of Eccleston, which
differs in some respects from the Cotton and York MSS. But Phillipps MS.
fol. 74 adds in a marginal note in an old hand, ‘obiit autem in Acria,
plenus dierum.’
[1236] Ibid. 25.
[1237] Annals of Dunstable, anno 1233 (Ann. Monast. III, 133-4).
[1238] Annals of Osney, p. 70 (Ann. Monast. Vol. IV)
[1239] Ibid. 82; cf. Mon. Franc. I, 16. M. Paris under the year 1241
writes, ‘the Abbat of Osney smitten with pusillanimity of mind, left the
Order of the great doctor Augustine and migrated to the Order of Minors,
wishing to try the novelty;’ IV, 163.
[1240] Liber Conform. fol. 79 b.
[1241] Mon. Franc. I, 320 (letter 178); for the date see p. 139, n. 8.
[1242] _Chronica Fratris Jordani_ in Anal. Franc. I, 17, 18.
[1243] Mon. Franc. I, 54; Wadding, Annales III, 22. The period of his
ministry in Germany is given by Jordan, Anal. Franciscana I, 11, 16; the
authority for his ministry in Spain is Chronica Anonyma, ibid. 284.
[1244] Mon. Franc. I, 53, 54.
[1245] Ibid. 55.
[1246] Ibid. 60.
[1247] Ibid. 38.
[1248] Ibid. 58, 47.
[1249] The list of General Ministers in the Reg. Fratrum Minorum Londoniae
states: ‘Frater Albertus Pisanus fuit iv{us} generalis, et ministravit
tribus annis; qui prius fuit minister in provincia Angliae.’ Mon. Franc.
I, 553. Eccleston mentions no space of time, but states that Haymo was
made Minister of England in the same Chapter in which Albert was elected
General, that he ‘ministered one year in England, and was afterwards
elected General’ (ibid. 57, 59). There is no reason to suppose that Haymo
resigned the Provincialate before he became General. The early dates in
the Registrum are untrustworthy. Further, a note to the Phillipps MS. of
Eccleston (fol. 76, _dorse_) says, in a list of General Ministers:
‘quintus fuit frater Albertus de Pysis bonus et sanctus homo qui non vixit
in ministerio nisi sex mensibus et migravit ad dominum.’ The handwriting
of the note is about contemporary with that of the text.
[1250] Mon. Franc. I, 48, 58.
[1251] Mon. Franc. I, 58. Eccleston gives a somewhat confused account of
the vision relating to the event; the vision seems to have appeared to
Haymo. See Annals of Tewkesbury (R.S.), _sub anno_ 1239; and Mon. Franc.
I, 542 (A. D. 1239).
[1252] M. Paris, Chron. Majora, IV, 163; Hist. Angl. II, 374: ‘Magister
Radulphus de Madenestane, vir quidem moralis et eliganter literatus, sed
ordini Praedicatorum (!) fidei interpositione obligatus.’ Barth. of Pisa,
Lib. Conform. f. 82, 101b; an account of the vision in consequence of
which he became a Minorite.
[1253] Liber Conform. f. 79b.
[1254] M. Paris, Chron. Majora, III, 168; cf. ibid. III, 305. Lyte,
Oxford, p. 31.
[1255] Mon. Franc. I, 59, note 1. This passage does not occur in the
Phillipps MS. of Eccleston.
[1256] Ann. Monast. III, pp. 148, 156.
[1257] Mon. Franc. I, 59, n. 1.
[1258] Mon. Franc. I, 72; Phillipps MS. f. 80 b reads _pueri_ for
_plurimi_ in line 3.
[1259] Mon. Franc. I, 62.
[1260] See Part I, chapter vi.
[1261] ‘Ut plurimum erubesceret,’ Mon. Franc. I, 72.
[1262] Ibid. 59.
[1263] Ibid.
[1264] Ibid. 69.
[1265] Ibid. 38, 69, Part I, chapter v.
[1266] Part I, chapter ii.
[1267] Mon. Franc. I, 68.
[1268] Mon. Franc. I, 70.
[1269] Mon. Franc. I, 32. Eccleston says this took place in the Chapter of
Genoa, i.e. either 1244, or 1254. But the letter of Innocent IV here
referred to was published on Nov. 14, 1245 while W. of Nottingham and
Elias, who was also mentioned (_ibid._), were dead before 1254: see Ehrle,
Archiv für Litt. u. Kirch. Gesch. Vol. VI, p. 31, n. 6. The declaration of
the rule by Gregory IX (_Quo elongati_) is given in Wadding II, 244: that
by Innocent IV, _ibid._ III, 1 29.
[1270] Ibid. 70, 303.
[1271] Ibid. 373.
[1272] Ibid. 70.
[1273] English Historical Review for Oct. 1891.
[1274] Mon. Franc. I, 70.
[1275] Ibid. 71. Cf. declaration of the Rule by Innocent IV, on debts;
Wadding, III, 129-130.
[1276] Mon. Franc. I, 59.
[1277] To whom it is attributed by the Reg. Frat. Minorum Lond. Mon.
Franc. I. 538.
[1278] Tanner, Bibl. 183. MSS. Oxford, St. John’s Coll. 2, prologue; Mag.
Coll. 160 _in calce_ (see Coxe’s Catalogues); and Brit. Mus. Royal MS. 4
E, ii.
[1279] Mon. Franc. I, 314-5.
[1280] Ibid. 315, 374, 395.
[1281] Ibid. 360, 364: ‘Cui me spiritualiter inter mortales teneri
fateor.’
[1282] Ibid. 317, 393.
[1283] Ibid. 38.
[1284] Ibid. 32.
[1285] Ibid. 70.
[1286] Ibid. 307, 368, 380.
[1287] Ibid.
[1288] Ibid. 369. Cf. Bodl. Tanner MS. 223, f. 161, a license from
Innocent IV to the Friars accompanying the Archbishop, ‘equitare et
subtelares et capas portare,’ Aug. 2, 1249.
[1289] Mon. Franc. I, 380.
[1290] Mon. Franc. I, 357-8.
[1291] Ibid. 349.
[1292] Ibid. 137, 320, 333, 388, 405.
[1293] Mon. Franc. I, Letters clxxv, ccxiv, ccxv. He may have been a
Frenchman by birth.
[1294] Ibid. 118.
[1295] Ibid. 229.
[1296] Ibid. 133.
[1297] Ibid. 133, 137.
[1298] Ibid. 103, 118.
[1299] Ibid. I, 28.
[1300] Ibid. 53.
[1301] Ibid. 308.
[1302] Ibid. 353-5.
[1303] Mon. Franc. 28.
[1304] Ibid. 355, ‘in scriptis et eloquiis tam fratribus quam saecularibus
utilis et acceptus.’
[1305] Ibid. 364.
[1306] Lewis, Topog. Dict. Cf. Mon. Franc. I, lxvi. The name Eccleston
occurs in the title of the York MS., Mon. Franc. I, p. 1.
[1307] Mon. Franc. I, p. 9; cf. 17.
[1308] Ibid. 39.
[1309] Ibid. 10, 13, 71, &c.
[1310] Ibid. p. 1, p. lxvi, Jessopp, ‘The Coming of the Friars.’
[1311] Mon. Franc. I, p. 1.
[1312] Ibid. 66, 70.
[1313] Hist. Regum Angl. pp. 29, 82. In John Argentein’s _Loci communes_,
written about 1476 (MS. Ashmole, 1437, p. 155) is the note: ‘Hic Rogerus
fuit filius Fugardi, et creditur quod erat Rogerus Baconus natus apud
Witnam juxta Oxoniam.’
[1314] Ibid. 82, ‘de generosa prosapia.’ Op. Ined. pp. 13, 16: ‘Misi
igitur fratri meo diviti in terra mea, qui ex parte regis consistens, cum
matre mea et fratribus et tota familia exulavit, et pluries hostibus
deprehensus se redemit pecunia; et ideo destructus et depauperatus, non
potuit me juvare, nec etiam usque ad hunc diem habui responsum ab eo.’ Cf.
ibid. p. 10.
[1315] Op. Ined. p. 65.
[1316] The report that he was educated at Brasenose Hall is merely a
tradition founded on a foolish legend. Historical fictions die hard. In
1889, Mr. W. L. Courtney writes in the _Fortnightly Review_, Vol. XLVI, p.
255, R. Bacon ‘seems to have been educated at Brasenose College in Oxford,
although Merton College has also laid claim to the honour of his youthful
learning.’ Merton College was not founded till Roger was advanced in
years; Brasenose College was founded more than two centuries after his
death.
[1317] Chron. Majora, IV, 244-5.
[1318] Comp. Stud. Theol. Royal MS. 7, f. vii, f. 154 (quoted in Charles,
p. 412; Brewer, p. lv). The origin of the tradition that Roger wrote a
life of St. Edmund seems to be a passage in M. Paris, Chron. Maj. V, 369,
where the historian says that he was supplied with details for the life of
St. Edmund by _Robert_ Bacon. The confusion between the two Bacons is
continually recurring. Even in Luard’s edition of Grostete’s Letters there
is an unfortunate misprint; on p. 65 Roger Bacon should be Robert.
[1319] Op. Ined. pp. 70, 75, 82, 88, 91, 186-7, 329, 428, 472, 474.
[1320] Ibid. 327, 425.
[1321] Ibid. 13, 65.
[1322] Ibid. 59; he writes in 1267, ‘Nam per viginti annos quibus
specialiter laboravi in studio sapientiae, neglecto sensu vulgi,’ &c.
[1323] Ibid.: this seems almost incredible; the Parisian _libra_ at this
time appears, from Paucton and Le Blanc, to have been a sum of 20
_solidi_, not (as Plumptre asserts) ‘a silver coin about the size of the
more modern franc.’
[1324] See Part I, chapter vii.
[1325] Op. Ined. 325. A. of Hales died 1245.
[1326] Charles, p. 10; Op. Ined. p. 74.
[1327] Opus Majus, p. 190 (edition of 1750).
[1328] Hist. Reg. Angl. p. 82.
[1329] Op. Ined. p. 7, ‘famam studii quam retroactis temporibus obtinui.’
His name does not occur in the list of masters of the Friars Minors at
Oxford; a note appended to that list says, that ‘according to other
chronicles the fourth master is not mentioned here nor have I elsewhere
found his name.’ Mon. Franc. I, 552; Phillipps MS. 3119, fol. 76. May not
this have been Roger Bacon? That his name should be suppressed is not to
be wondered at. (The Reg. of Friars Minors at London adds after the name
of John of Parma, General Minister, 1247-1256: ‘Hic etiam scripsit fratri
Rogero Bakon tractatum qui incipit, “Innominato magistro.”’ This treatise
usually ascribed to Bonaventura is really addressed to a secular.)
[1330] Op. Ined. p. 7; Charles, 24-25.
[1331] See below.
[1332] Op. Ined. p. xiv, seq.
[1333] Ibid. p. 1.
[1334] Ibid. p. 13.
[1335] This statute was included in the _Constitutiones Generales_, passed
in the General Chapter of Narbonne, 1260; the fast imposed was of three
days’ duration; Archiv f. L. u. K. Gesch. d. Mittelalters, Vol. VI, p.
110.
[1336] Op. Ined. p. xciv, from Wood’s _Antiquitates_ (said to be taken
from the _Opus Minus_).
[1337] Op. Ined. p. xlvi. Bacon’s difficulties are fully described in
Brewer’s preface.
[1338] Charles, p. 35.
[1339] See below; and Brewer, Op. Ined. xlviii, seq.
[1340] Op. Ined. p. lv.
[1341] Charles, 36-7; Wadding, II, 449. No record or contemporary account
of the trial remains.
[1342] This tradition receives some support from a note appended to the
_Verbum abbreviatum_ of Raymund Gaufredi, Sloane MS. 276 (sec. xiv),
printed in _Sanioris Medicinae ... de arte chymiae_, &c., Frankfurt, 1603,
p. 285: ‘Et ipse Rogerus propter istud opus ex praecepto dicti Reymundi a
fratribus ejusdem ordinis erat captus et imprisonatus. Sed Reymundus
exsolvit Rogerum a carcere quia docuit eum istud opus.’ Cf. ibid. p. 265,
and Sloane MS. 692, f. 46.
[1343] Namely, _Compendium studii thelogiae_.
[1344] In Royal MS. 13 C i, fol. 152, is the following note in a hand of
the 15th or 16th century: ‘Anno Christi 1292 in festo Sancti Barnabe (June
11) obiit Rogerus Bacon professor theologie et quasi eruditus ut magister
in octo scienciis liberalibus ubi alii clerici non posuerunt preter vii
sciencie’ (‘scie’ in MS.).
[1345] Hist. Reg. Angl. p. 29.
[1346] John Twyne says that the friars at Oxford fastened all his works
with long nails to the shelves of their library and let them rot there.
Jebb reasonably calls the accuracy of this statement in question, Op.
Majus, p. xi (ed. 1750). Bacon’s influence however on his age was slight:
‘not a doctor of the 13th or 14th century,’ says Charles, p. 42, ‘quotes
Bacon; not one combats or approves his opinions.’ In an anonymous
treatise, _De recuperatione sanctae Terrae_, addressed to Edward III, c.
1370, the author recommends the study of mathematics, ‘propter plures
earum utilitates, praecipue tactas in libello super utilitatibus hujusmodi
confecto per fratrem Rogerum Bacon de ordine Minorum;’ printed in Bongars,
Orientalis Hist. Tom. Secund. (1611), p. 339. W. Woodford refers to his
‘curious book,’ _De retardatione senectutis_, Brown, Fasc. Rerum, Vol. I,
p. 197. Some of his contemporaries, such as Bungay, Peckham, William de
Mara, seem to have been more generally influenced by him.
[1347] Cf. MS. Sloane 2629, f. 54 b; _inc._ ‘Moralis philosophia est finis
omnium Scientiarum aliarum’; only a few lines.
[1348] Charles, Roger Bacon, p. 62, n. 7: I have not seen this edition and
can get no information about it.
[1349] Op. Ined. 60. ‘Patet igitur quod scriptum principale non potui
mittere.’
[1350] Charles is somewhat inconsistent; in spite of Bacon’s words,
‘tertia parte hujus operis,’ he refers the two treatises to separate
works--the _Communia Naturalium_ to the _Opus Tertium_, the _De
multiplicatione_ (rightly) to the fourth part of the _Compendium
Philosophiae_ (pp. 61, 89).
[1351] _Sanioris medicinae_, p. 7, where a passage on alchemy is quoted.
[1352] Digby MS. 55 contains a treatise on grammar falsely attributed to
Bacon; _inc._ ‘Scientia est ordinatio depicta in anima.’ See Opera Ined.
p. lxv.
[1353] Royal MS. 7 F vii (see above) speaks of eight sciences, i.e.
including what Bacon calls ‘scientia de communibus naturalibus.’
[1354] See the works under the heading, _Alchemy_: cf. ‘Excerpta ex libro
sex scientiarum’ in _Sanioris medicinae_, &c. (Frankfurt, 1603), p. 7:
‘Quarta vero scientia non modicam habet utilitatem ... et est Alchymia
speculativa.’
[1355] The _Breve Breviarium_ includes a treatise _De vegetabilibus et
sensibilibus_, and another _De medicinis et curis corporum_; edition of
1603, pp. 228 and 156; MS. Bodl. E Musaeo 155, pp. 549 and 553.
[1356] Printed in Opera Ined. p. 359 seq.
[1357] The special treatise on alchemy in this work does not seem to be
extant. Cap. vii of the _Communia Naturalium_ begins, ‘_De generacione._
Habito ergo de principiis naturalibus generacionis.’
[1358] Sloane MS. 3744, p. 71 (sec. xv) contains _Errores secundum Bacon_.
_Inc._ ‘Scito enim quod omne corpus aut est elementum aut ex elementis
compositum.’ According to Charles (p. 71) this is the _De Erroribus
medicorum_.
[1359] Charles, R. Bacon, p. 76. It is often, perhaps rightly, attributed
to John de Rupescissa.
[1360] Brewer reads, ‘Explicit liber tertius De Consideratione quartae
Sententiae S. Magistri per Rogerum Bacon,’ &c. His whole account of this
MS. is not very trustworthy; Op. Ined. p. xxxix.
[1361] Cf. MSS. Sloane 284 (sec. xiv), 477 (A. D. 1309), and 2411; Digby
150 (sec. xiii), f. 106, ‘_Extracciones a Thezauro pauperum_, libro scil.
preceptorum medicinalium.’
[1362] John of London was a master, and contemporary of Roger’s; Op. Ined.
p. 34. ‘Juvenis Johannes’ was aged 20 or 21 in 1267, and had no experience
in teaching, ibid. 61.
[1363] The dates are conclusive; Peckham entered the Order as a young man,
not as a boy, in the lifetime of Adam Marsh; Mon. Franc. I, 256. ‘Juvenis
Johannes’ was about 12 years old when Adam died.
[1364] Op. Ined. 63.
[1365] Ibid. 61.
[1366] Ibid.
[1367] Ibid. 62.
[1368] Namely, a treatise on rays, Op. Ined. p. 230, and an elaborate one
on mathematics and judicial astrology, ibid. 270; John took also a concave
lens, ibid. p. 111.
[1369] Ibid. 62.
[1370] MS. Gray’s Inn Libr. 7, f. 62, ‘a quadam villa proxima que dicitur
Herteford.’
[1371] MS. Gray’s Inn Libr. 7, f. 62.
[1372] Ottobon came to England in November, 1265, and left in July, 1268.
[1373] _Miracula Symonis de Montfort_, p. 96 (Camden Soc. 1840).
[1374] Ibid. p. 95.
[1375] Hardy, Descript. Catal. Vol. III, p. 207, No. 352. Wadding, Script.
218, Sup. ad Script. p. 667.
[1376] Twyne, MS. XXII, 103 c. (Defensorium, cap. 62). Perhaps he is the
‘Frater G. de Ver’ who was at the London convent, c. 1250, Mon. Franc. I,
328.
[1377] Bale (I, 323) and Pits.
[1378] Pits calls him S.T.P. of Oxford; his name does not occur in the
list of Franciscan masters. Wadding (VI, 48) says that Duns Scotus was
made S.T.P. at Oxford when Ware was called to Paris. This is incorrect;
Duns was never doctor of Oxford; see notice of him.
[1379] Dugdale, Monast. Vol. VI, Part III, p. 1529 (from Fr. a S. Clara).
[1380] Barth. of Pisa, Liber Conform. f. 81, ‘Johannes Guarro Anglicus
magister Scoti.’ Duns Scotus mentions him twice in his works, Wadding, VI,
45. Cf. Bibl. S. Antonii, at Padua, MS. _in Pluteo_ XXII, _in calce_:
‘Varro professionis Minoritae Doctorum Jubar et praeceptor Divi Scoti
famosus’; quoted by Tomasin, p. 60 b.
[1381] Willot, Athenae, p. 166.
[1382] Collectanea, III, 51.
[1383] A ‘Richard Middleton’ was fellow of Merton _sub_ Edw. III; of
course he is not to be confounded with the Minorite doctor.
[1384] Wadding, IV, 54, 121. Archiv f. L. u. K. Gesch. III, 417. This date
is sufficient to show that he cannot have finished the _Summa_ of
Alexander of Hales at the command of Pope Alexander IV, as Davenport
(Francis a S. Clara) alleges, Opera, Tom. I, Hist. Minor, p. 12. The
_Summa_ was finished by Friar William of Middleton, D.D. of Paris (and
probably fifth master of the Franciscans at Cambridge), who died 1261,
Wadding, IV, 57; Lanerc. Chron. 70; Mon. Franc. I, 555.
[1385] Archiv, &c., II, 296 (from Angelus de Clarino, Hist. Tribulat.).
[1386] Wadding, VI, 13; and Willot, Athenae.
[1387] Athenae, 314-315; the two last epithets are applied to him in the
edition of his Quodlibets printed at Venice in 1509.
[1388] Wadding, Sup. ad. Script. 633; this is the earliest instance which
I have found of the special application of any such title to Richard
Middleton.
[1389] It is always assumed that he was an Englishman; the available
evidence on the point is slight. MS. Borghes. 322, f. 174 a (sec. xiv) has
the note: ‘Hic loquitur (Petrus J. Olivi) stulte contra fratrem G. de Mara
et communem opinionem.’ MS. Borghes. 358, f. 227 b (sec. xiv): ‘Magister
Guillelmus de Anglia habet duas sententias in instrumentis duobus datas
contra doctrinam P(etri) J(oannis) ...’ &c. The second William here is
probably W. de Mara (Archiv f. L. u. K. Gesch. III, 472-3). B. of Pisa and
Tritheim say nothing about his nationality. The name was not uncommon in
England; see e.g. Pat. Roll, 10 Edw. I, m. 7 dorse; Le Neve, Fasti, vol.
iii; cf. forest of Mara, or Delamere in Cheshire.
[1390] Charles, Roger Bacon, p. 240. Cf. B. of Pisa, Liber Conform. fol.
81: ‘scripsit ... contra fratrem Thomam de Aquino correctorium
componendo.’
[1391] Wadding, Sup. ad Script. 323.
[1392] This reply was printed at Cologne, 1624 (Charles, ibid.), and at
Cordova in 1701. See Merton Coll. MS. 267; MS. in Bibl. S. Anton. Venet.
in pluteo xviii; Boston of Bury, in Tanner, Bibl. p. xxxviii.
[1393] Charles, Roger Bacon, pp. 240-1.
[1394] Anal. Franc. II, 115.
[1395] ‘Scripsit super sententias ad opus domini fratris Bonaventure multa
superaddendo et multa quodlibeta faciendo.’ B. of Pisa, Liber Conform. f.
81: cf. Tanner, Bibl. 223.
[1396] Other works attributed to him by Sbaralea (Wadding, Sup. ad
Script.), viz. _Paraphrasis Musaei_ and _Sylvarum libri quatuor_, are by
W. de Mara, Bishop of Constance in the fifteenth century.
[1397] Peckham’s Reg. p. 1040.
[1398] Part I, chapter i.
[1399] Report IV, pp. 442-4.
[1400] Oliver, Monasticon Diocesis Exon. p. 331. He is not to be confused
with his namesake, the opponent of Ockham: he may possibly be the author
of the _Tractatus de octo Beatitudinibus_ in MS. Laud. Misc. 368, fol. 106
(sec. xiv).
[1401] Cf. Inquisitio ad quod damnum 20 Edw. I (Nov. 1291), in Mon. Franc.
II, 289.
[1402] His name does not occur in the list of _lectores_, as it probably
would have done had he been a Franciscan; this inference however cannot be
drawn with any certainty.
[1403] Rolls of Parliament, I, 16 a. Lyte, p. 127. The name of ‘Frater
Willelmus de Leominstre’ stands first in the list of the five _magistri_
who represented the University.
[1404] Script. II, 98. Cf. MS. Seld. sup. 64, fol. 48, ‘ex officina
Joannis Cocke.’
[1405] Excheq. Q. R. Wardrobe, 4/7, 17-18 Edw. I (R.O.): ‘per manus
fratrum Johannis de Bekinkham et Johannis de Clara xvi{li}. xiii{s}
iiii{d}.’
[1406] Peckham, Regist. p. 895.
[1407] Excheq. Q. R. Wardrobe, 4/7 (R.O.).
[1408] Excheq. Q. R. Wardrobe, 8/2, m. 1.
[1409] Ibid. 13/35 (m. 1): ‘ffratri Johanni de Clare de ordine Minorum pro
expensis suis et conductione equitature pro se et socio suo eundo cum
magna festinacione ad diversa loca pro fratre Hugone de Hertpoul ministro
ordinis sui querendo ad consensum expedicioni negociorum predictorum
prestandum per manus proprias apud Berkhamstede eodem die (March 29)
xxiiij{s} iij{d}.’ The business mentioned was connected with a bequest to
the Mendicant Orders by Edmund, Earl of Cornwall.
[1410] MS. Digby 154, fol. 38.
[1411] Kennet’s Parochial Antiquities, I, 362.
[1412] MS. Digby 154, fol. 37 b.
[1413] Mon. Franc. I, 556.
[1414] Mon. Franc. I, 514.
[1415] Exchequer, Q. R. Wardrobe, Accts. 16/14, 35 Edw. I. (R.O.)
[1416] Mon. Franc. I, 512-3. See ibid. 518: ‘Octavam fenestram vitrari
fecit frater Henricus de Sutton, gardianus.’
[1417] MS. New Coll., Oxford, 92; among other preachers mentioned is Simon
of Gaunt, Chancellor of the University in 1291.
[1418] Wood MS. F 29 a, f. 178 (i.e. Wood-Clark, II, 386).
[1419] Ibid., and Mon. Franc. I, 552.
[1420] Wood MS. ibid.
[1421] There is no evidence as to the place of his birth (the note which
Leland triumphantly quotes--Merton Coll. MS. 59--was written in 1455, and
contains the baseless statement that he was fellow of Merton College); and
the only evidence of his nationality is the name ‘Scotus,’ and a note in
the catalogue of the library at Assisi, written 1381: ‘Opus super quatuor
libros sententiarum mag. fratris Johannis Scoti de Ordine Minorum qui et
doctor subtilis nuncupatur, de provincia Hiberniae.’
[1422] Wood-Clark, II, 386. He must have attained the age of thirty by
this time; Archiv f. L. u. K. Gesch. VI, pp. 128-9.
[1423] Wadding (VI, p. 48) cites some passages bearing on the date. Duns’
great work on the _Sentences_ is called _Scriptum Oxoniense_, but I do not
know how far the name can be traced back; Merton Coll. MSS. 60, 61, 62,
date from the middle of the 15th century. Barth. of Pisa however says:
‘Hic primo in Anglia Oxonie Sentencias legit. Deinde in studio
Parisiensi.’
[1424] He says, e. g. on the authority of the letter, that Duns was at
Paris in 1304; the letter implies exactly the opposite; he was in ‘some
province other than the province of France.’
[1425] Wadding, VI, 51, from Petrus Rodulphus, ‘qui eas ex ipso exscripsit
autographo.’
[1426] Wadding, VI, 107.
[1427] Ibid. 51. The passage is usually understood to refer to his regency
at Paris. No record of the Chapter remains.
[1428] Ibid. 116. The statement that he died at the age of 34 or 43 is a
pure guess. The tradition of his having been buried alive when in a trance
is found in St. Bernardin of Siena; Wadding, VI, 114.
[1429] Liber Conform. f. 81.
[1430] Archiv f. L. u. K. Gesch. I, 368, n. 1. Ehrle adds that the epithet
occurs in some MSS. which he puts in the first half of the fourteenth
century; ibid.
[1431] See the critical notice prefixed to each work in the Lyons edition;
and _Hist. Litt._ Vol. XXV, pp. 426-446.
[1432] Rejected by Wadding without good reason: _Hist. Litt._ xxv, 447.
[1433] Twyne MS. XXII, 103 c.
[1434] Wood MS. F 29 a, 178: ‘Rob. de Couton’ is the eighteenth in the
list of twenty-two names.
[1435] ‘_Doctor amoenus_ vulgo vocatus est.’ Pits, p. 443 (anno 1340).
[1436] I have not found any mention of Robert Cowton in any foreign
library, unless ‘Cathon’ in Bibl. Nat. Paris MSS. 15886-7, be for Cowton.
Valentinelli proposes to identify Cowton with ‘Frater ven. doctor Robertus
Anglicus ordinis Minorum,’ the author of a _Dialogus de formalitatibus
inter Ochanistam et Dumsistam_ (sic): _inc._ ‘quod verbis vituperii satis
abundas’; MS. Venice; St. Mark, Vol. I. Class. V, Cod. 24 (sec. xv). The
author was probably later than Cowton; perhaps Robert Eliphat.
[1437] Ann. Min. VI, 176: Wadding refers vaguely to ‘Irish MSS.’ Cf. Bale,
Script. II, 242-3. Dict. of Nat. Biography.
[1438] Willot, Athenae, 83. Bale, Vol. II, p. 52: ‘Sophisticus doctor et
scriptor antiquus.’ William Woodford refers on several occasions to
‘Doctor antiquus’ on the _Sentences_; Harl. MS. 31, f. 79, &c.
[1439] Bale gives these notes in MS. Seld. sup. 64, fol. 16 b: _Brynkeley
... scripsit distinctiones theologicas_, lib. I; ‘Ad sciendam primam
originem et finalem’; _ex Ramesiensi monasterio. Brenkyll Minorita
scripsit lecturam sententiarum_, lib. IV; ‘Utrum per aliquam disciplinam
vel scientiam’; _ex Coll. Regine Oxon. Brinquilis Minorita anglus scripsit
super sententias_, lib. IV; ‘Sit aliqua conclusio theologica’; _Ex bibl.
Carmel. Parisiensium._
[1440] Mon. Franc. I, 543; Brodrick, Mem. of Merton Coll., 197-8; Bale,
Script. I, 391.
[1441] Tanner, Bibl. 150. All Souls MS. 87 (A. D. 1473), ‘Joannis Scoti
discipulus.’ The note in Peterhouse MS. 2-4-2, ‘studiit Oxon et Paris,’ is
in a late sixteenth-century hand.
[1442] Wood-Clark, II, 402.
[1443] At the end of the work in this edition: ‘Expliciunt questiones
super octo libris phisicorum Aristotilis doctoris profundissimi fratris
Johannis canonici ordinis fratrum minorum Anno 1475 ... Padue impresse.’
At the end of the volume: ‘... compilatum a domino iohanne marbres
magistro in artibus tholose et canonico,’ &c. The _explicit_ of Book I and
Book II attributes these _quaestiones_ to ‘Doctor canonicus magister
Petrus Casuelis ordinis minorum.’
[1444] Record Off. Treasury of Receipt, 2/35.
[1445] Wadding, Ann. Min. VI, 246.
[1446] Wood says that Ockham received the last title from the Pope.
Annals, I, 439.
[1447] Lambeth MS. 221 (sec. xiv), fol. 308 b; among ‘modern Oxonians,’
singled out for special praise, is ‘Occam inceptor in theology.’ Barth. of
Pisa, Liber Conform. f. 81 b, calls him ‘Bacalarius formatus Oxonie.’ Cf.
MS. Bibl. Mazarine, Paris, 894 (sec. xiv), ‘Questiones super primum librum
Sententiarum de ordinacione fratris Guillelmi de Okham de ordine fratrum
Minorum, Oxonie.’
[1448] Riezler, _Die literarischen Widersacher der Päpste_, &c. pp. 35,
241.
[1449] Wadding, VI, 396; Riezler, p. 71, &c. The English Provincial was
William of Nottingham.
[1450] Wadding cites a letter of John XXII dated Kal. Dec. A{o} VIII
(1323), ordering the Bishops of Ferrara and Bologna to inquire into a
report that Ockham had upheld the doctrine of Evangelical Poverty in a
public sermon; if so, he was to be sent to Avignon within a month. Ann.
Min. VII, 7, 23.
[1451] Anal. Franc. II, 142. Among the writings must have been the
treatise _De paupertate Christi_, which Leland and Wadding mention, but
which has not been identified. Cf. also Wadding, VII, 81-2, who states a
work written at Avignon in 1328 was afterwards inserted in the _Dialogus_.
[1452] Riezler, 71.
[1453] Ibid. 68-71; Anal. Franc. II, 143.
[1454] Riezler, 76-7.
[1455] Ibid. 95 seq.
[1456] Ibid. 82.
[1457] In his treatise on the election of Charles, the creature of the
Pope.
[1458] Wadding, VIII, 12-13, where the letter of the Pope to the General
Minister, with the form of absolution, is given.
[1459] Riezler; Wadding, VIII, pp. 10-11.
[1460] On the last fly-leaf is a rude portrait of the author.
[1461] According to Tanner, one of Ockham’s works on the Physics was
printed at Strasburg in 1491.
[1462] Another work on the Physics ascribed to Ockham was preserved at
Assisi, and perhaps is there still: _inc. prol._ ‘Philosophos plurimos’:
_inc. opus._ ‘Iste liber dividitur in duas partes.’ (Wadding, _Sup. ad
Script._ 328.)
[1463] The first, consisting of three _quaestiones_, is called: ‘Tractatus
quam gloriosus de sacramento altaris, et in primis de puncti, linee,
superficiei, corporis, quantitatis, qualitatis et substantie
distinctione,’ &c. The second contains forty-one chapters: ‘Incipit
accessus ad tractatum de corpore Christi.’ _Explicit_: ‘hec tamen
simpliciter falsa est, corpus Christi est quantitas in sacramento
altaris.’
[1464] Ockham did not write the _Disputatio inter militem et clericum_.
See Riezler, 144-8.
[1465] I do not know whether this MS. contains Tractatus i of Part III;
probably, like most of the MSS., it omits it.
[1466] Goldast, Monarchia, II, 771.
[1467] Goldast, Monarchia, II, 957; Riezler, 263. Goldast speaks of six
treatises only as missing, being apparently under the impression that he
has printed three. The subdivisions are very confusing, and lead to many
mistakes.
[1468] He was B.D. of Paris in 1373; D.D. in 1380; Chancellor in 1389;
Bishop of Cambrai in 1396; Cardinal in 1411; he died in 1425. Oudin,
Scriptores, III, p. 2293.
[1469] MS. Paris, Bibl. Nat. 14579, fol. 88--fol. 101b: ‘Explicit
abbreviatio Dyalogi Okan quam fecit magister Petrus de Alliaco Episcopus
Cameracensis et postea cardinalis.’
[1470] Ibid. f. 101 b. His nomenclature differs from that used here and
(generally though not consistently) in the printed editions: thus he calls
‘Pars I’ _Tractatus primus_; ‘Pars II,’ _Tractatus secundus_; ‘Pars III,
Tract ii’ (the only portion of Part III known to him), _Tractatus
tertius_. Thus fol. 98 b: ‘Tractatus tertius est de viribus Romani imperii
et habet 5 libros.’ Books 1, 2, and 3, correspond to those printed in
Goldast (Pars III, Tract. ii, Libri 1, 2, 3): Book 4 discussed whether the
emperor should defend the rights of the Roman Empire by arms ‘etiam contra
papam cardinales et clerum’; Book 5 treated ‘de rebellibus, proditoribus,
... Romani imperii.’ These two books were not known to Peter d’Ailly, and
are not now to be found.
[1471] Analecta Franciscana II, 169 sqq.
[1472] Mon. Franc. I, 556. Tanner (Bibl. 202) confounds him with another
H. de Costesey in the fifteenth century.
[1473] Bale, I, 409.
[1474] Leland, Collect. III, 49.
[1475] Twyne MS. XXIII, 266; cp. Part I, Chapter VII.
[1476] Wood, Hist. et Antiq. II, 398; Le Neve, Fasti III, 465, 170; Mon.
Franc. I, 542.
[1477] Wadding, VII, 291.
[1478] According to Bale he left several of his works to the convent at
Reading; I have not found the authority for this statement. See Tanner,
Bibl. 469. Adam de Lathbury was Abbat of Reading monastery in 1233.
Dugdale, Vol. VI, Part III, p. 1509.
[1479] The assertion that he flourished in 1406 rests on a
misunderstanding of the _explicit_ in MS. Merton Coll. 189: ‘explicit
secundum alphabetum et sic totum opus est completum A. D. 1406.’ This of
course only refers to the writing of the MS.
[1480] _Liber moralium in Threnos_, cap. 106; Merton Coll. MS. 189, fol.
172 dorse.
[1481] MS. Selden, supra 64, fol. 75.
[1482] MS. Selden, supra 64, fol. 89, ‘ex quodam Minoritarum registro.’
[1483] See notice of Lathbury.
[1484] Wadding, Script. 116; Sup. ad Script. 341.
[1485] Mon. Franc. I, 541.
[1486] Record Office, Roman Transcripts, Regesta, Vol. V, f. 80-81, 1
Clement VI; ‘per sexdecim annorum spatium continue institit.’
[1487] Record Office, Roman Transcripts, ibid. He has permission to
continue to reside in the London convent, to have a decent chamber, one
friar as _socius_, one clerk, two servants, and to dispose of his books
and other property.
[1488] Mem. of Merton, p. 208.
[1489] ‘Item versus finem chori ex parte Boriali a stallis sub fune
lampadis jacet sub longo lapide ffrater Johannes Lamborn confessor Regine
Isabelle et filius Baronis et ultimus heres illius baronis.’ MS. Cott.
Vitell. F XII, fol. 276.
[1490] Mon. Franc. I, 543; Mem. of Merton, 208.
[1491] Mon. Franc. ibid.; MS. Digby 176, fol. 50, 40.
[1492] Mon. Franc. ibid. He may be the same as Langberg or Langborow,
fellow of Merton in 1357, and S.T.P., who is said to have become a
Minorite. Simon Lamborn, fellow of Merton in 1347, Proctor in 1361, and
S.T.P., is also said to have entered the Order, but Wood reasonably
supposes this incident to have been borrowed from the life of Reginald
Lambourne. Memorials of Merton, 208-9.
[1493] Liber Conform. f. 81 b.
[1494] Pits, p. 443. Bale is less definite, ‘Anglorum gymnasia ...
petiit.’ I, 416. Cf. Wadding, VII, 170 (A. D. 1334).
[1495] Mon. Franc. I, 557. Tanner mentions him as Robert Eliphat, and
‘Aliphat Anglus, Gregorii Ariminensis auditor’; Bibl. pp. 259, 36.
[1496] Cf. also p. 222, note 5, above.
[1497] Mon. Franc. I, 557; Mem. of Merton Coll., 195, 346.
[1498] Mon. Franc. I, 557, 560, 538.
[1499] Mon. Franc. I, 541.
[1500] Rymer’s Foed. Vol. II, Part. II, pp. 870, 991; Vol. III, Part. I,
p. 230.
[1501] Mun. Acad. pp. 173-180.
[1502] Ibid. 208. See pp. 43-3 above.
[1503] Tanner, Bibl. 509.
[1504] Oxf. City Records, Old White Book, fol. 55 b.
[1505] Wadding, VIII, 106, 457; the papal letter is dated, IV Idus Feb.
A{o} III; Mon. Franc. I, 561.
[1506] Wadding, VIII, 127; Wood, Annals, sub anno 1360.
[1507] Mon. Franc. I, 538.
[1508] Copy in Lambeth MS. 1208, f. 99 b-100: ‘Copia bulle quam frater
Rogerus Coneway optinuit in Romana curia anno Christi 1359; III Non.
April, A{o} VII.’ The date in Todd’s Catalogue is wrong. For the papal
decree referred to, see _Corpus Juris Canon., Extravag. Communium Liber_
V, Tit. III, cap. 2.
[1509] Mon. Franc. I, 538, 561.
[1510] His _Defensio Mendicantium_ was written at the command of some
superior; see cap. III (Goldast, Monarchia, Tom. II): ‘Ad quem
(Armachanum) dignatus est me rogare quidam venerabilis pater ac magister,
qui me potuit obligare mandato, quod eiusdem Domini dictis et calumniis
pro viribus obviarem.’
[1511] MS. Cott. Vitell. F XII, f. 274 b.
[1512] This volume, and MS. 12 in the same library (containing the
‘Moralities’ of Nicholas Bozon), were given by Conway when Minister to the
Franciscans of Chester.
[1513] Hist. of Norf. IV, p. 131.
[1514] Digby MS. 90, _in calce_.
[1515] Ibid.
[1516] Leland, Script.; the work does not appear to be extant. Wadding
suggests that the commentary printed among the works of Duns Scotus (Vol.
II) may be by Tunstede.
[1517] Laud. Misc. MS. 657 (sec. xv); cf. Pub. Libr. Cambr. MS. Mm III,
11. For representations of Wallingford and the clock, see MSS. Cott.
Claud. E IV, f. 201; Nero D VII, &c.
[1518] Mon. Franc. I, 538, 561.
[1519] Ibid.
[1520] See Part I, chapter iv: the treatise is printed under the name of
Simon Tunstede in E. de Coussemaker’s _Auctores de Musica med. Aevi_, Nova
Series, Vol. IV, pp. 220-298. Paris, 1876. The treatise, according to the
editor, is very important, and forms in some sort the transition between
the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries.
[1521] Mon. Franc. I, 538, 561.
[1522] MS. Cott. Vitell. F XII, f. 274 b.
[1523] The forms Mardiston (Brewer) and Marcheley (Leland, Bale, Pits) are
wrong; they are derived from MS. Cott. Nero A IX, f. 103, where the name,
though indistinct, is certainly Mardisley.
[1524] Tanner, Bibl. 509; Wadding, Script. 146; Bale, Pits.
[1525] Tanner, ibid; _in Registro capituli S. Petri Ebor._
[1526] Eulog. Hist. III, 337-8.
[1527] Mon. Franc. I, 538, 561: cf. notice of Th. Kyngesbury.
[1528] Mon. Franc. ibid.
[1529] Wadding, VIII, pp. 239, 249.
[1530] Wadding, Vol. VIII, p. 178.
[1531] Rymer’s Foed. Vol. III, pt. II, p. 995. In a papal letter of 1376
he is described as ‘conservator privilegiorum Fratribus Ordinis Minorum in
Hibernia a Sede Apostolica concessorum specialiter deputatus,’ Wadding,
VIII, p. 592. Cotton, Fasti Eccles. Hibern. I, 89.
[1532] Wadding, VIII, 298 (see notice of H. of Halvesnahen). Chronicon
Angliae 1328-1388 (R.S.), p. 222.
[1533] Rymer’s Foed. IV, 30.
[1534] B. of Pisa, Liber Conf. fol. 81 b: ‘suis determinationibus Oxonie
factis.’ Wadding, VIII, 333.
[1535] Bale, Pits; Willott, _Athenae_, 229.
[1536] MS. Seld. sup. 64, fol. 80.
[1537] Wadding, Vol. VIII, p. 332. The original document from which these
facts are derived is not given in the _Regestrum_ at the end of the
volume: the date would be, Greg. XI, A{o} 6.
[1538] Wadding, VIII, 166, 500.
[1539] Ibid. 221, seq.
[1540] Dated, VII Kal. April, A{o} VIII (Urban V).
[1541] Quétif and Echard (II, 136 b), mention a Dominican writer, William
Piati or Prati, who flourished 1540, but do not assign this treatise to
him.
[1542] MS. Cott. Domit. A II, f. 1.
[1543] MS. Cott. Faust. A II, f. 1.
[1544] Bale, Script. I, 513; he is said to have written _Calendarii
castigationes_ (_inc._: ‘Corruptio calendarii horribilis est’), which I
have not found. MS. formerly in Caius College (perhaps now No. 141?). Cf.
R. Bacon, Op. Ined. p. 272.
[1545] Edit. Skeat, p. 3.
[1546] E. g. by Chaucer (_ut supra_).
[1547] Mercator’s Atlas, translated by Hexham, Vol. I, p. 44; Hakluyt, I,
134.
[1548] Elsewhere called ‘Jacobus Cnoyen Buscoducensis,’ or ‘of Hartzeuan
Buske’ (i.e. Bois-le-Duc, Mr. R. L. Poole informs me): I can find nothing
about him.
[1549] The Latin edition of Mercator, A. D. 1606, adds ‘(quod tamen ab
alio prius accepit)’.
[1550] Quoted, without a reference, in Hakluyt, I, 135.
[1551] MS. Arundel 207, _ad calcem_: ‘ego frater Nicholaus de Linea, ord.
beate Dei genetricis Marie de Monte Carmeli.’
[1552] Fascic. Zizan. p. 287.
[1553] Ann. Min. IX, 129, &c.
[1554] Waterford wrote a treatise in 1433; Wadding, IX, 129; Woodford
lectured at Oxford before 1381.
[1555] Twyne MS. XXI, 502. See above, p. 81.
[1556] Fascic. Zizan. 517, 523.
[1557] MS. Exeter Coll. 7, f. 4.
[1558] MS. Digby, 170; at the end of the third _determinatio_.
[1559] MS. Digby, fol. 33.
[1560] Fascic. Zizan. 525, n. 2.
[1561] MS. New Coll. 156, fly-leaf; printed in App. B.
[1562] See Tanner. Bibl. 785.
[1563] MS. Cott. Vitell. F, XII, f. 274 b.
[1564] Namely, _De causis condemnationis articulorum_ 18, &c.: see below.
[1565] This MS. (f. 112) contains also _Philosophia naturalis_ (_inc._
‘Queris, venerande dux Normannorum’), erroneously ascribed to Woodford,
really composed by William de Conchis: cf. MS. Bodl. Digby 107; Tanner,
Bibl. p. 194.
[1566] Wood, Hist. et Antiq. Milman, Lat. Christ. VIII, 121.
[1567] Eulog. Hist. III, 415 (R.S.). Gascoigne, _Lib. Veritatum_, 161:
Cotton MS. Cleop. E II, fol. 262 b, a letter of Henry IV to Alexander V:
the king reminds him, ‘qualiter a juventute vestra fuistis in regno
Anglie, ac eciam in preclaro Universitatis Oxonie studio conversatis,
quodque multos honores et bona quamplurima suscepistis ibidem.’
[1568] Bibl. Nationale (Paris), Fonds de Cluni, Cod. 54, fol. 8.
[1569] Gascoigne, ibid.
[1570] Milman, _ut supra_.
[1571] Eulog. Hist. III, 415. Gascoigne, 154.
[1572] Eulog. Hist. III, 414, 415.
[1573] Mon. Franc. I, 538, 561; Cott. MS. Vesp. E VII, f. 7; Digby MS. 90,
f. 6 b; Bodl. MS. 692, f. 33.
[1574] Bodl. MS. _ut supra_.
[1575] Ibid. Cf. notice of John Somer.
[1576] Bodl. MS. _ut supra_. As to the date, see English Hist. Review,
Oct. 1891.
[1577] Mon. Franc. I, 538.
[1578] See notices of John Somer and John Tewkesbury.
[1579] Digby MS. 90, f. 6 b. A writer of the same name is mentioned by
Bale and Pits, _sub anno_ 1350. One was Fellow of Merton, c. 1340: see
Tanner, Bibl. 706.
[1580] Fascic. Zizan. 113 (R.S.).
[1581] Eulog. Hist. Contin. III, 351 (R.S.).
[1582] Fascic. Zizan. 133-180. That the work was originally a lecture is
proved by MS. in Corp. Chr. Coll. Cambr. No. 331, p. 583 (sec. XV),
‘Explicit confessio magistri et fratris Johannis Tassyngton (_sic_) de
ordine Minorum et S.T. doctoris, quam edidit, et in scholis fratrum
minorum Oxoniis determinando promulgavit ... A. D. 1381.’
[1583] Fasc. Zizan. p. 133, note 2, &c., and Eulog. Hist. _ut supra_. Mr.
Shirley says, ‘Tyssyngton has evidently never seen most of the books he
quotes; and the references are often false.’ He attempts to give the
general sense of the passages he refers to, apparently from memory.
[1584] Fascic. Zizan. 357.
[1585] Mon. Franc. I, 538, 561.
[1586] Ibid. 538.
[1587] Oxf. City Rec. Old White Bk. fol. 71 a.
[1588] MS. Digby 170: ‘Explicit 3{a} determinatio sive lectio magistri et
fratris W. Woodford contra Wyclevystas Oxon. A. D. 1389 in scolis Minorum,
et die vesperiarum fratris Johannis Romseye proximi magistri regentis.’
MS. Bodl. 393, fol. 58 b reads, ‘anno domini M{o}CCC{o}LXXXXIX{o}.’
[1589] MS. Cott. Vitell. F XII, f. 277 b.
[1590] MS. Dd. III, 53, p. 101, in the Public Library at Cambridge;
Richard occurs as king in the two succeeding entries and in several on the
preceding page. That this is Richard II is clear, (1) from the writing;
(2) from the mention on p. 97, of the Statute of Labourers.
[1591] Laurentiana, _ex Bibl. S. Crucis_, Plut. XVII, Sin. Cod. X.
[1592] Name erased in MS.
[1593] Bandini’s _Catal. Cod. Lat. Mediceæ Laurentianæ_, tome IV, pref. p.
xlii.
[1594] Harl. MSS. No. 3768, fol. 188. Transcript in Twyne MSS. XXII, 223.
[1595] Wadding, IX, 499; Eulog. Hist. Contin. III, p. 403, seq.
[1596] MS. Seld. sup. 64, fol. 134 b, ‘ex quodam Minoritarum registro.’
[1597] Mon. Franc. I, 538.
[1598] Hearne’s edition of Tryvytlam’s poem in App. Vitae Ric. II (Oxon.
1729), p. 344, note 2.
[1599] Ibid. p. 358 (speaking of ‘Owtrede’ of Durham).
[1600] Script. 401.
[1601] Bale, Script. II, 57. A ‘Hugo Angerius’ flourished in 1338, but he
was probably not a friar nor an Englishman; MS. Bibl. Nat. Paris, No.
5155, § 6.
[1602] ‘Dr. J. Ede Herfordensis Minorita scripsit inter cetera opus
egregium, sc. lecturam in apocalypsim lib. 1. Ex scriptis Th. Gascoigne.’
Bale in MS. Seld. sup. 64, fol. 36 b.
[1603] Leland and Bale, who refer to the _Catalogus eruditorum
Franciscanorum_.
[1604] ‘Opuscula quaedam Theologica,’ in Bernard’s Catalogue.
[1605] In MSS. Paris. Bibl. Mazarine, 287 and 288 (sec. XIV) is a _Tabula
originalium ... compilata a fratre Johanne Lectore Herfordensi ordinis
fratrum Minorum_. This work, though ascribed by Possevin and Tanner to J.
of Hereford, is by John Lector of Erfurt. Wadding, Script. 139, Sup. ad
Script. 415.
[1606] Merton Coll. MSS. No. 67, f. 202 seq.: at the end, ‘Explicit
determinacio fratris et magistri Will. Buttiler ordinis minorum regentis
Oxonie, A. D. 1401.’
[1607] Mon. Franc. I, 538, 561.
[1608] Eulog. Hist. Contin. III, 405. The year is fixed by the words,
‘Nuntius missus inveniens generalem mortuum.’ Henry of Ast died in 1405.
Wadding, IX, 267.
[1609] Le Neve. Wadding, IX, 320, 499.
[1610] Wadding, IX, 493-4. Cf. Eulog. Hist. Cont. III, 409.
[1611] Wadding, IX, 356, 529: the papal letter is dated XVI Kal. Jun. A{o}
IV (May 17, 1414).
[1612] The list of Provincials in the Reg. Fratrum Minorum, London, has
‘Frater Willielmus Butler, doctor Oxoniae, jacet....’
[1613] Bale, in MS. Seld. sup. 64, fol. 215, from MSS. in the Franciscan
Friary at Reading.
[1614] Mon. Franc. I, 539, 561; Wadding, IX, 356, 529; Wadding calls him
‘Bors.’
[1615] Bibl. p. 118.
[1616] Mon. Franc. I, 538.
[1617] Wadding, Sup. ad Script. 608.
[1618] Wadding, X, 53; Mon. Franc. I, 538, 561.
[1619] Mon. Franc. _ut supra_. Wadding, X, 53.
[1620] Mun. Acad. 274-5 (R.S.).
[1621] MS. Cott. Vitell. F XII, fol. 277 ‘... jacet in plano frater Thomas
Cheyny, doctor theologie.’
[1622] MS. Bibl. Nat. Paris, 3221, § 5.
[1623] Wadding, X, 169: perhaps _Thomas_ Wynchelse, who in 1427,
‘famosissimus doctor illius ordinis reputabatur;’ the only John Wynchelse,
Minorite, mentioned elsewhere, died a novice about 1326. See notice of
him.
[1624] Bale, I, 563. Blomfield, Norfolk, IV, 115.
[1625] Le Neve, _Fasti_, Vol. III. Wood, Hist. et Antiq. Oxon, II, 404.
[1626] Fascic. Zizan. p. 417.
[1627] Bale, Pits, &c. Clopton was chief justice under Richard II; see
e.g. Close Roll, 13 Ric. II, part 2, m. 4, _in dorso_.
[1628] Leland, Script. 433.
[1629] His epitaph contains the lines:
‘Anglia gaudet eum doctum fecisse magistrum,
* * * * *
Inbibit Oxonie musis nova pocula morum.’
See B. Gebhardt, _Matthias Döring der Minorit_, Sybel’s Hist. Ztschr. for
1888, pp. 251, 293-4. Most of the statements here are derived from
Gebhardt’s article, a general reference to which will suffice. Cf.
Wadding, Annales, XI, 49, 180; XII, 276, &c.
[1630] Ibid. p. 251. Weissenborn, _Acten der Erfurter Univ._ part I, p.
122.
[1631] Anal. Franc. II, 287.
[1632] He brought forward a ‘propositio circa Hussitarum articulum; de
Donatione Constantini, num justo titulo clerici possideant bona
Ecclesiarum temporalia quae Sylvestri a Constantino sint collata, in
concilio Basiliensi 1432 ad disputandum proposita.’ Gebhardt, 257. Several
of his discourses at the Council are preserved in Balliol Coll. MSS. 164,
165.
[1633] Twyne MS. XXIV, p. 129 (from Reg. Chichele, part II, fol. 35).
[1634] ‘Into pitous use of pore men.’ Wilkins, Conc. III, 456. The whole
process against Russell will be found in Wilkins, Conc. III, 438-462.
[1635] Ibid. 434. Cf. Mon. Franc. I, 520: ‘ad has expensas (i.e. for the
tiling of a roof in the London convent) dedit gardianus Russell iii
libras.’
[1636] Given in English, Wilkins, Conc. III, 438.
[1637] Ibid. 456. Russell says himself, ‘Y ... went to the court of Rome
supposyng ther to have be socured.’ Ibid. 457.
[1638] Ibid. 457-8.
[1639] If it be the same, but he is here described as an Austin Friar. See
the receipt for the £10, executed in the names of the proctors, and dated
Feb. 1, 1429/30, in Oxf. Univ. Archives, F 4, f. 15. ‘Noverint universi
per presentes nos ... recepisse ... de Fratre Willelmo Russell ordinis
Augustinencium decem libras sterlingorum virtute cujusdam gracie sibi
concesse de commutacione convivii debiti in die incepcionis sue.’
[1640] Mun. Acad. 376.
[1641] Ibid. 270, note I. Wood, Annals, pp. 569-570.
[1642] Wood, Annals, _sub anno_ 1427. Correspondence of Bekynton (R.S.),
Vol. II, pp. 248-250.
[1643] ‘Sacre pagine professor.’ Drake, _Eboracum_, App. 29, translates
this, ‘professor of holy pageantry.’ This curious mistake is repeated by
the editor of Mon. Franc. Vol. II, preface, p. xxviii.
[1644] York Mystery Plays, by Lucy Toulmin Smith, p. xxxiv (the extract is
from the York City Records, Book A, fol. 269).
[1645] Mon. Franc. I, 539, 561. Wadding, X, 169. ‘Friar Roger Dewe.’
Wilkins (Conc. III, 458) prints a letter from Archbishop Chichele to
‘fratri Johanni David S.T.P. et ordinis fratrum Minorum in Anglia ministro
generali,’ dated March 2, 1425, ‘et nostrae translationis anno XII’--i.e.
1426, new style.
[1646] Mon. Franc. ibid. Wadding, XI, 49.
[1647] Mon. Franc. ibid. Wadding, XI, 49, _in Registro Ordinis_ (says the
latter) is a list of the ‘Rectors of the Provinces,’ A. D. 1438: in
England ‘Magister Thomas Roidnor.’
[1648] Original in Ball. Coll. Archives (described in Hist. MSS. Com.
Report, IV, p. 443).
[1649] Statutes of the Oxford Colleges, Vol. I, Balliol, p. xx.
[1650] Register, A a, fol. 23 b.
[1651] Ibid. f. 7. (Boase, p. 287.)
[1652] Reg. A a, fol. 36.
[1653] MS. Cott. Julius F VII, f. 165: ‘Actus magistri Jo. Argentyn
publice tentus in Univ. Cantebrigie,’ &c. in verse. Above, some notes are
written: ‘natus de Kyrkeby,’ ‘de collegio Regis in (Cantebrigia?).’
[1654] Tanner, Bibl. 48; Le Neve, _Fasti_, I, 597, 587, 620.
[1655] Le Neve, III, 683.
[1656] Reg. A a, fol. 2.
[1657] Ibid. fol. 62 b.
[1658] Reg. A a, fol. 51 b.
[1659] Ibid. fol. 83.
[1660] Harl. MS. 431, fol. 100 b; Mon. Franc. I, 539, 551; Wilkins,
Concil. III, 459.
[1661] Mun. Acad. p. 649. In the will of R. Mertherderwa (A. D. 1447)
mention is made of a friar David Carn Dominican, S.T.P. of Oxford; Ibid.
p. 558.
[1662] Wadding, Ann. Min. XII, 10-11, who adds, ‘I have these from certain
Vatican records.’
[1663] Reg. A a, fol. 53.
[1664] ‘Dum Bononiae legebam,’ quoted by Sbaralea; Wadding, Sup. ad
Script. 420.
[1665] Cotton, Fasti Eccles. Hibern. III, 17.
[1666] Sbaralea has collected from his extant works references to works
not as yet discovered; Wadding, Sup. ad Script. 420.
[1667] Wadding, Script. 20; Sup. ad Script. 68, 420.
[1668] Reg. A a, fol. 74 b.
[1669] Ibid. fol. 75.
[1670] Ibid. fol. 79 b, printed in Appendix.
[1671] Ibid. fol. 86 b.
[1672] Mon. Franc. I, 539. English Hist. Review, Oct. 1891.
[1673] Gascoigne, _Loci e libro veritatum_, p. 100. Tanner (Bibl. p. 584)
gives a reference to this letter: ‘MS. in Bibl. Gualteri Copi.’ It is
probably still among the MSS. at Bramshill House, Hants. The date of the
letter is not given.
[1674] Chronicle of the Grey Friars of London (Camden Soc.), p. 20.
[1675] P.C.C. Wattys, fol. 180 a.
[1676] Francis a S. Clara, Hist. Minor, pp. 37-8.
[1677] MS. Cott. Vitell. F XII, f. 282 b. ‘In capella Apostolorum ... in
medio sub lapide jacet ffrater Willelmus Goodard sacre theologie doctor
gardianus loci et precipuus benefactor ejusdem qui obiit 26{o} die mensis
Septembris, A. D. 1485.’ On fol. 310 he is called ‘frater Willelmus
Goddard junior.’
[1678] MS. Cott. Vitell. F XII, fol. 274 b. The date is obviously wrong.
In the margin 1497 is written in a later hand, but crossed out.
[1679] Reg. A a, fol. 87 b.
[1680] Boase, Reg. p. 24.
[1681] Reg. A a, fol. 122; see App.
[1682] Reg. A a, fol. 128; see App.
[1683] Le Neve, _Fasti_, I, 103.
[1684] ‘XIX Kal. Feb. anno 1466.’ Wadding, Vol. XIII, p. 356.
[1685] Le Neve, _ut supra_.
[1686] Reg. A a, fol. 14 b.
[1687] Ibid. fol. 101 b.
[1688] Reg. A a, fol. 117; printed in Mun. Acad. 755.
[1689] Anal. Franc. II, 536.
[1690] Reg. A a, fol. 119.
[1691] MS. Cott. Vitell. F XII, fol. 277. ‘Sub secunda parte tercie
fenestre jacet Johannes Alen pater Magistri quondam de capella Johannes
(sic) ducis Bedfordie et in eodem loco jacent frater Johannes Alen S.T.P.
quondam gardianus loci filius Johannis Alen,’ &c.
[1692] Mun. Acad. 683.
[1693] Wadding adds ‘de Traversagnis;’ Script. 160; Ann. Vol. XIV, p. 232.
[1694] Wadding, ibid. and Sup. ad Script. 484.
[1695] Ibid. His connexion with Oxford may be inferred from his _Epistola
nuncupatoria_ to Waynflete, in which he speaks of the site, building,
library, &c., of Magdalen College, Lambeth MS. 450; Wharton, _Anglia
Sacra_, I, 326.
[1696] See _explicit_ of his _Rhetorica_ (ed. 1480): ‘compilatum autem
fuit hoc opus in Alma universitate Cantabrigie, A. D. 1478, die et 6
Julii.’
[1697] Lambeth MS. _ut supra_.
[1698] Wadding, Script. 161.
[1699] Macray, Annals of the Bodleian, 2nd edition, p. 376, says 1489.
[1700] See also Wadding, Script. 160, 161. ‘Habentur ejus monumenta
Saonae apud Minores MSS.... Magnam librorum copiam eo in conventu
coacervavit.’
[1701] Wood, Annals, Vol. I. p. 638. Oxf. Univ. Archives, F 4, f. 123 b,
145 a (Letter 313).
[1702] Pat. 17 Edw. IV, Part II, m. 28. His business related to the royal
grant of 50 marks a year. ‘Nos autem, pro eo quod littere predicte
casualiter sunt amisse, sicut ffrater Willelmus Dysse coram nobis in
Cancellaria nostra personaliter constitutus sacramentum prestitit
corporale, et quod idem frater Willelmus litteras illas si eas imposterum
reperiri contigerit nobis in eandem Cancellariam nostram restituet ibidem
cancelland’ tenorem irrotulamenti litterarum predictarum ad requisicionem
prefati Willelmi duximus exemplificand’ per presentes. In cujus, &c. T. R.
apud Westmonasterium XIIIJ die Novembris.’
[1703] Cotton, Fasti Eccles. Hibern. III, 349.
[1704] Wood MS. D 2, p. 340.
[1705] Wood, _Athenae_, I, 16-18; Wadding, Ann. Vol. XV, pp. 312, 422. He
is said also to have superintended for some years the press which
Ottaviano Scotto opened at Venice in 1480; Cotton, Fasti Eccles. Hibern.
IV, p. 11.
[1706] MS. Bibl. Mazarine, 1019; the author is here called ‘Frater
Mauricius Belvacensis ordinis fratrum Minorum.’
[1707] MS. C.C.C. Oxford, 227, f. 1: ‘Expliciunt questiones doctoris
subtilis super secundo et tertio de anima Oxonie scripte per fratrem
Petrum Pauli de Nycopia. Lord Jhesu mercy.’ Cf. notice of William
Vavasour.
[1708] According to Wood he became D.D. about 1500, _Fasti_, 6.
[1709] Wood, _Athenae Oxon._ I, 5-6. Cooper, _Athenae Cantab._ I, pp. 6,
521. MS. Cott. Vitell. F XII, fol. 275. Mon. Franc. I, 539.
[1710] Acta Cur. Cancell. ~D~, f. 30.
[1711] Acta Cur. Cancell. ~D~, f. 28.
[1712] Ibid. f. 27, 49 b, 54, 78: ~F~, f. 106 b; EEE f. 159. Boase,
Register, p. 161; cf. 296.
[1713] Acta Cur. Cancell. ~F~, f. 263.
[1714] Wood, _Athenae_, 94.
[1715] Wood, ibid. Lyte, 456.
[1716] Lyte, 475.
[1717] Wood, ibid. Several other references to him are found in the
records of the Chancellor’s Court: his servant, William Cooper, was
convicted of an assault on a scholar in 1509, Acta Cur. Cancell. ~F~, f.
94 b; in 1513 he took Richard Leke into his service. See App. B; see also
EEE, fol. 265 a.
[1718] Reg. G 6, fol. 22 b, 27 b, 29 b, 30, 31 b, 43, 58 b.
[1719] Reg. G 6, fol. 18. R. Hadley was one of the Observants _qui fugam
petierunt_ in 1534; Cal. of State Papers, Hen. VIII, Vol. VII, No. 1607.
[1720] Reg. G 6, f. 26 b. MS. Cott. Vitell. F, XII, fol. 288.
[1721] Reg. G 6, f. 35 a.
[1722] Ibid. fol. 39.
[1723] Ibid. fol. 51 b.
[1724] Acta Cur. Canc. ~F~, fol. 264 b; the entry is crossed out.
[1725] See Part I, chapter VII, where references will be found.
[1726] Reg. G 6, fol. 18 b, 39 b, 55. Boase, p. 46.
[1727] Reg. G 6, fol. 61 b.
[1728] Reg. G 6, fol. 72 (two entries about him). Another Thomas Rose,
born c. 1488, is mentioned by Foxe (Acts and Monuments, VIII, 581-590); he
was a priest but not a friar (ibid. 585).
[1729] Reg. G 6, fol. 47 b, 161, 169, 187 b.
[1730] Boase, Reg. p. 66. Tanner, Bibl. 638.
[1731] Acta Cur. Cancell. ~F~, fol. 266 b; perhaps a mistake for Walter
Goodfield?
[1732] Cooper, Athen. Cantab. I, 31. Notes and Queries, 1st Series, Vol.
XII, p. 430. MS. Wood, B. 13, p. 14. Thompson’s Boston (ed. 1856). Stubbs,
Regist. Sacrum Anglic. p. 143. Dugdale, _Monasticon_, Vol. VI, p. 1511.
[1733] Wood, _Athenae_, 205. Dict. of National Biography.
[1734] Wood, _Athen. Oxon._ I, 92-4. Cooper, Athen. Cantab. I, 55.
[1735] Cal. of State Papers, Hen. VIII, Vol. II, pp. 1450, 1467, 1470,
1474, 1477; Vol. III, p. 1555.
[1736] Ibid. Vol. II, p. 1465.
[1737] Cal. of State Papers, Hen. VIII, Vol. II, No. 1370.
[1738] He was certainly warden in 1515. Cal. of State Papers, Hen. VIII,
Vol. II, No. 1313.
[1739] Mon. Franc. I, 539.
[1740] Cal. of State Papers, Hen. VIII, Vol. II, Nos. 1313, 1314; Brewer,
Hen. VIII, I, 250-253.
[1741] Brewer, I, 245-250.
[1742] Le Neve, _Fasti_, I, 73. Cal. of State Papers, II, Nos. 4074, 4083,
4089.
[1743] Strype, Ecclesiastical Memorials, I, i. 90. Rymer, XIV, 12.
[1744] Eighth Report of the Deputy Keeper, App. 2, No. 5, p. 167.
[1745] Cal. of State Papers, Hen. VIII, Vol. VI, Nos. 62, 1379.
[1746] Seebohm, Oxford Reformers, 326-7.
[1747] Cal. of State Papers, Hen. VIII, Vol. III, 929, 965.
[1748] Brewer, II, 304, 306.
[1749] Ibid. 339, 346.
[1750] Cal. of State Papers, Vol. VI, No. 661.
[1751] See ibid. Vol. V, App. 9.
[1752] Dixon, Church of England, I, 106.
[1753] Le Neve, _Fasti_, I, 73.
[1754] P.C.C. Hogen, qu. 26.
[1755] Cal. of State Papers, Hen. VIII, Vol. III, No. 929. Cf. Seebohm,
Oxford Reformers, 383-4.
[1756] Cal. of State Papers, Hen. VIII, Vol. IX, 34.
[1757] Ibid. 34, 35, 607, 771; X, 522.
[1758] Reg. G 6, fol. 107, 122 b, 171, 182 b, 168 b, 187 b (and 213 b).
[1759] Eighth Report of the Deputy Keeper, App. II.
[1760] Reg. G 6, fol. 107 b.
[1761] Reg. G 6, fol. 107, 168 b, 185, 200, 205 b, 206, 207, 215.
[1762] Acta Cur. Canc. ~F~, fol. 194. See Part I, chapter VII.
[1763] Reg. G 6, fol. 127 a, b, 160, 168 b, 185 a-b, 187 b, 194 b.
[1764] Boase, Reg. p. 79; 8th Report of the Deputy Keeper, App. 2, p. 27.
[1765] Acta Cur. Canc. ~F~, fol. 264.
[1766] Reg. G 6, fol. 133 b, 171 b, 177, 168 b, 187 b, 199 b, 214.
[1767] MS. Cott. Vitell. F. XII, fol. 277.
[1768] Reg. G 6, fol. 160.
[1769] Acta Cur. Canc. ~F~, fol. 156 b.
[1770] Reg. G. 6, fol. 187.
[1771] Ibid. fol. 254 b.
[1772] Ibid. fol. 301.
[1773] Reg. H. 7, f. 1. See also ibid. f. 22.
[1774] P.C.C. Hogen, qu. 26.
[1775] Acta Cur. Canc. ~F~, f. 210; another Alyngton is mentioned in
Boase’s Register, p. 99; for W. Hows, see Boase, Reg. p. 80.
[1776] Acta Cur. Cancell. ~F~, f. 250, 254 b. See Part I, chapter vii. A
secular named Richard Lorgan is mentioned in Boase’s Register, p. 128.
[1777] Reg. G. 6, fol. 220.
[1778] Acta Cur. Cancell. ~F~, fol. 263. Wadding (_Script._ 148) mentions
another Minorite of the same name.
[1779] Reg. G. 6, fol. 253 b.
[1780] Reg. G. 6, fol. 187, 301; H. 7, fol. 1, 6 b.
[1781] Reg. G. 6, fol. 257 b.
[1782] Lyte, p. 222.
[1783] Brodrick, Memorials of Merton College, p. 251.
[1784] MS. Cott. Vitell. F XII, fol. 288 b, 313.
[1785] Cal. of State Papers, Vol. VII, No. 1607. Eighth Report of the
Deputy Keeper, App. II, p. 30. One of this name was Rector of Gedleston,
Herts., from 1551-1558; Newcourt, Repert. I, 827. Another was vicar of
Clacton-parva and died before Jan. 1523 (ibid. II, 155).
[1786] Acta Cur. Cancell. ~F~, fol. 156 b.
[1787] Reg. H. 7, fol. 156 b.
[1788] To ensure publicity.
[1789] Reg. H. 7, fol. 40, 153, 161 b, 171 b, 177 b, 178 b.
[1790] Ibid. fol. 51 b. David Williams B. Can. L. must be a different
person, Boase, p. 104.
[1791] Ibid. fol. 61. For similar dispensation to him, see ibid. fol. 64
(May 5).
[1792] Ibid. fol. 63; on _circuitus_, see Clark, Reg. of the Univ. Vol.
II, Part I, p. 42.
[1793] He was, however, not licensed till June 3, 1521; Reg. H. 7, fol. 58
b.
[1794] Ibid. fol. 64, 69.
[1795] Ibid. 72.
[1796] Ibid. fol. 78; cf. 75, 70 b.
[1797] Reg. H. 7, fol. 38, 40 b, 78.
[1798] Ibid. fol. 61.
[1799] Ibid. fol. 38, 51 b, 68, 69.
[1800] Ibid. fol. 73, 104 b, 124, 127, 130.
[1801] Reg. H. 7, fol. 140; App. D.
[1802] Ibid. 142 b. 143.
[1803] Eighth Report of Deputy Keeper, App. II. p. 28.
[1804] Reg. H. 7, fol. 82 b, 98 b.
[1805] Ibid. fol. 116 b.
[1806] Ibid. fol. 117.
[1807] Ibid. fol. 117 b.
[1808] Ibid. fol. 119, 125 b.
[1809] Ibid. fol. 129 b; in this entry he is described as Doctor.
[1810] Acta Cur. Cancell. EEE, fol. 362.
[1811] Cal. of State Papers, Hen. VIII, Vol. V, p. 304.
[1812] Cal. of State Papers, Hen. VIII, Vol. IV, No. 5875.
[1813] In a list of monthly wages for July, 1529, there is a payment of £6
13_s._ 4_d._ to ‘Friar Nicholas, one of the King’s spiritual learned
counsel;’ in Feb., 1530, he received £3 15_s._ by the King’s command:
ibid. Vol. V, p. 304. See ibid. Vol. IV, No. 6187 (25), a grant of
denization to ‘Nicholas Delborgo, Minorite, S.T.P.,’ Jan. 21, 1530.
[1814] In conjunction with Stokesley and Edw. Fox he wrote (A. D. 1530) a
book on the King’s marriage, which Cranmer translated into English with
alterations and additions: Cal. of State Papers, VIII, 1054; cf. Vol. VII,
289. He is probably the ‘Friar Nicolas, a learned man and the King’s
faithful favorer,’ who was employed in negotiating with the University of
Bologna for a decision favourable to the divorce (1530): Cal. of State
Papers, Vol. IV, No. 6619. But there was another Friar Nicholas at this
time who was employed by the Pope, Wolsey, Henry VIII, and other princes.
This was a German Dominican, Nicholas de Scombergt or Schomberg, usually
called Friar Nicholas or Fra Niccolo. He came to England in 1517, the same
year that N. de Burgo began to teach in Oxford. He was in England in 1526,
and hoped to be made cardinal. In Oct. 1532 he was on his way to Capua
(from England?): a few months previously, Dr. Nicholas of Oxford (i.e.
probably N. de Burgo) was trying to leave England. These facts are taken
from the Calendars of State Papers, Hen. VIII. Vols. II-V.
[1815] Cal. of State Papers, V, 593 (Dec. 21, 1531).
[1816] See Part I, chapter viii.
[1817] Cal. of State Papers, V, 623.
[1818] Ibid. Vol. IV, 6788, ii, iv, vii.
[1819] Ibid. V, 1181. When, after Wolsey’s fall, Cardinal College was in
danger of suppression, Dr. Nicholas extracted an admission from the King
as to the fate of the rich vestments and ornaments which had been sent to
London to have the Cardinal’s arms removed; ‘he had begged of the King
“whitze copies for the high days of Our Lady.” The King said, “Alack! they
are all disposed, and not one of them is left.”’ Tresham to Wolsey, May
12, 1530; Cal. of State Papers, Vol. IV, No. 6377.
[1820] Cal. of State Papers, Vol. VI, No. 75. The benefice was worth
25_l._ a year; ibid. IX, 645.
[1821] Ibid. Vol. VI, No. 717.
[1822] Acta Cur. Cancell. EEE, f. 274.
[1823] Cal. of State Papers, IX, 645.
[1824] Ibid. 1120.
[1825] Ibid. XII, ii, 282.
[1826] Reg. H. 7, f. 110, June 8; Boase calls him Robert Kyrkeham in this
place (pp. 131, and 118).
[1827] Reg. H. 7, f. 104 b, 156 b, 160 b, 180 b; App. D.
[1828] Eighth Report of the Deputy Keeper, App. II, p. 19. See will of
Thomas Strey, lawyer of Doncaster (Nov. 14, 1530), in _Testamenta
Eboracensia_ (Surtees Society), Vol. V, pp. 294-7: ‘Item I bequeth to
Master Doctor of Grey Freres xxvj{s} viij{d} to bie hym a cotte.... Theis
beyng witnes of this my said will, Sir Thomas Kirkham, doctor of dyvinyte
and warden of the Freres Minours in Doncaster’ (and three others).
[1829] Wood, _Fasti_, 75.
[1830] According to Newcourt (Repert. II, 174) this living was vacant by
his death before Jan. 22, 1551. There may have been two of the same name.
Sir Thomas Kyrkeham, priest, was among those arrested for conspiring at
the Grey Friars London to refuse a subsidy to the King in 1531. Foxe, V,
57.
[1831] Newcourt, I, 419.
[1832] Reg. H. 7, f. 126.
[1833] Wood, _Fasti_, 68: he refers to Cambridge tables at the end of Mat.
Parker’s Antiq. Brit. Eccles. first edition; these are not in the edition
of 1572. Cooper, _Athen. Cantab._ I, 34, 527.
[1834] Mon. Franc. I 539.
[1835] Smith, Catalogue of Caius Coll. MSS. p. 197, 166.
[1836] Foxe, VI, 215.
[1837] Reg. H. 7, fol. 150, 153, 184 b, 210 b, 234, 235, 237.
[1838] Eighth Report of the Deputy Keeper, App. II.
[1839] Wood, _Fasti_, 83; Newcourt, _Repertorium_; Foxe, VI, 215 (his
evidence at the trial of Gardiner). Burnet, Reformation, II, i. 582, a
curious account of Bonner’s visitation of Hadham in 1554. Strype, Life of
Grindal, p. 88.
[1840] Reg. H. 7, fol. 169 b; Boase, 124.
[1841] Ibid. fol. 153, 169 b.
[1842] Ibid. fol. 174. Cf. Newcourt, Repert. II, 114; Will. Walker, Vicar
of Burnham, Essex, 1557-1582.
[1843] Boase, p. 145.
[1844] Reg. H. 7, fol. 218 b; adm. to incept Feb. 1, 1529/30, ibid. 210 b.
[1845] Ibid. fol. 234, 235 b, 237.
[1846] Acta Cur. Cancell. EEE, fol. 74 b, Part I, chapter vii.
[1847] Reg. H. 7, fol. 288.
[1848] Acta Cur. Cancell. EEE, fol. 257, 271 b, 380 b, Part I, chapter
vii.
[1849] Cal. of State Papers, VIII, 789.
[1850] Ibid.
[1851] Ibid. 480.
[1852] Ibid. 789.
[1853] Ibid. XII, ii, 557.
[1854] Acta Cur. Cancell. EEE, fol. 124 b, 161: the date 1534 is
uncertain, Reg. H. 7, fol. 290.
[1855] Foxe, Acts and Monuments, V, 20.
[1856] Ibid. p. 20 seq.
[1857] Acta Cur. Cancell. EEE, f. 161 a. There is no year marked on this
leaf; on fol. 159, the years are 1534, 1536; on fol. 164, 1528; on fol.
170, 1533.
[1858] Acts and Monuments, VIII, 501; he is probably the ‘old friar’
mentioned ibid. p. 500.
[1859] Strype, Annals, I, i. 415.
[1860] Acta Cur. Cancell. EEE, f. 230, 257, 270 b, 380 b. Newcourt,
_Repertorium_, I, 692.
[1861] Boase, Reg. 168.
[1862] _Athenae Oxon._ I, 101.
[1863] _Athen. Cantab._ I, 61. It seems very doubtful whether these
notices refer to the same person.
[1864] Cal. of State Papers, Hen. VIII, Vol. V, No. 1312.
[1865] Wood, _Athenae Oxon._ 101.
[1866] Ibid.
[1867] Tanner, Bibl. p. 648; Bale (MS. Seld. sup. 64, f. 76 b) gives the
Latin _incipit_ for this work, ‘ex museo Nicolai Grimoaldi.’
[1868] Wood, and Tanner, _ut supra_.
[1869] Ames, Typographical Antiquities, pp. 486-7.
[1870] Reg. H. 7, f. 273 b, 264 b, 310 b.
[1871] Ibid. f. 289 b.
[1872] Cal. of State Papers, Vol. VII, 665, ‘Edward Tyley, S.T.B.’ Burnet,
Reform. I, ii. 205, ‘Edward Tryley, S.T.B.’
[1873] Newcourt, _Repertorium_. Strype, Life of Grindal, p. 79.
[1874] Reg. H. 7, fol. 287, 284 b. Acta Cur. Cancell. EEE, fol. 271, 380
b. Part I, chapter viii.
[1875] Ibid. 303 b. Part I, chapter viii.
[1876] Ibid. f. 303 b.
[1877] Reports of the Deputy Keeper, Rep. 8, App. II, p. 28.
[1878] Acta Cur. Cancell. EEE, fol. 161, 230.
[1879] Ibid. fol. 366 b.
[1880] Ibid. fol. 380 b. The year is not certain. I have found no evidence
to connect him with David Whitehead, protestant preacher, who was
recommended by Cranmer for the Archbishopric of Armagh, fled on Mary’s
accession, and became English pastor at Frankfurt; Strype, Life of
Cranmer, 393, 399, 450.
[1881] Reg. H. 7, f. 290; I. 8, f. 84 b, 85, 88: Boase, p. 175.
[1882] Chronicle of the Grey Friars of London (Camden Soc.), p. 62;
Strype, Cranmer, 229; Wood, _Fasti_, 114.
[1883] Newcourt, Repert. I, 439.
[1884] Strype, Cranmer, 209.
[1885] Ibid. 295.
[1886] Chron. of the Grey Friars, p. 62.
[1887] Wood, _Fasti_, 114; Rymer, _Foedera_, XV, 237.
[1888] Wood, ibid.; Strype, Cranmer, 450, 468-9.
[1889] Boase, Register, p. 131; Cal. of State Papers, Vol. VI, Nos. 836,
887, 1370; VII, 923, 939, 1020, 1607, 1652; Gasquet, I, 166, 181-2. Cf.
ibid. II, 420?.
[1890] Boase, Register, p. 71; Gasquet, I, chapter iv; Froude, II, 178.
[1891] Reg. H. 7, f. 310 b.
[1892] Ibid. f. 315.
[1893] Foxe, Acts and Mon. V, 20.
[1894] Reg. H. 7, f. 303 b.
[1895] Reg. H. 7, 308 b, 303 b.
[1896] Acta Cur. Cancell. EEE, f. 161.
[1897] Newcourt, Repert. II.
[1898] Reg. I. 8, fol. 21 b, 23.
[1899] Cal. of State Papers, Hen. VIII, Vol. VII, No. 1607; perhaps in
connexion with the conspiracy of the Nun of Kent, or with the refusal of
the Observants to take the Oath of Succession.
[1900] Reg. H. 7, f. 303 b; I. 8, f. 9.
[1901] Strype, Memorials, II, ii. 277; Life of Parker, II, 52; Wood,
_Fasti_, 98-9; Le Neve, _Fasti_, I, 446, 447; Newcourt, Repert., I, 687.
Wood says he was Archdeacon of Gloucester in Edward’s reign.
[1902] Wood, _Fasti_, 106-7. Gillow, Bibliograph. Dict. of the Engl.
Catholics I, 313; Bourchier (ed. Paris, 1586), p. 11.
[1903] Wood, _Athenae_, I, 107; Gasquet, I, 192-201.
[1904] Foxe, Acts and Monuments, VII, p. 79.
[1905] Reg. H. 7, f. 276 b.
[1906] Oliver, Monast. Exon. 331.
[1907] Wood, _Fasti_, 92.
[1908] He resigned the living in 1551; Newcourt, Repert. I.
[1909] Le Neve, _Fasti_, I, 177.
[1910] Cooper, Athen. Cantab. I, 126-7.
[1911] Ibid., and Wood, _Fasti_.
[1912] Wood, _Fasti_: his manner was not conciliatory: ‘he sayd opynly in
his lector in Powlles that if God ware a man he was a vj or vij foote of
lengthe with the bredth, and if it be soo, how canne it be that he shuld
be in a pesse of brede in a rownde cake on the awter: what an ironyos
oppynyone is this unto the leye pepulle.’ Grey Friars Chron. p. 63.
[1913] Strype, Eccl. Mem. III, i. p. 322; Foxe, VI, 627.
[1914] Foxe, VII, 84.
[1915] Strype, Eccles. Mem. III, i. 166, 347.
[1916] Reg. I. 8, fol. 22. Another of the same name was D.D. of Cambridge
(1536), and Master of University College, Oxford (1546). Boase, p. 120;
Wood, _Fasti_, 123; Cooper, Athen. Cantab. Reg. H. 7, fol. 227 b, I. 8, f.
16 b, 112.
[1917] Eighth Report of the Deputy Keeper, App. II.
[1918] Cooper, Athen. Cantab. 70, 532; Le Neve, _Fasti_, III, 308;
Hutchinson’s Durham, II, 170; Durham Wills, Vol. I, 194 (Surtees Soc.
1835), ‘Crawfurthe.’ The ten vols. of St. Augustine (ed. 1529) given by
him are still in the library of the Dean and Chapter.
[1919] Reg. I. 8, fol. 6 b, 35 b.
[1920] Newcourt, _Repertorium_, I, 629, 632.
[1921] Strype, Memorials, II, i. 40; _Life of Cranmer_, 126, 133.
[1922] Le Neve, _Fasti_, I, 54.
[1923] Wood, _Fasti_, 108; Strype, Mem. II, i. 40; Tanner, Bibl. 327.
[1924] Rymer, Foed. XV, 350.
[1925] Strype, Mem. III, ii. 120, who gives 1558 as the date. Burnet puts
this commission in 1557; Reformation, Vol. III, Part i, p. 502.
[1926] Tanner, Bibl. 327: Hugh’s successor at Harlington was instituted on
Jan. 17, 1558/9; Newcourt, _ut supra_.
[1927] Reg. I. 8, fol. 37. Henry Strensham was rector of St. George’s,
Botolph Lane, London, from 1541-4; Newcourt, _Repertorium_.
[1928] Chapter House Books, A 3/11, p. 62.
[1929] Chapter House Books, A 3/11, pp. 2, 62; Cal. of State Papers, Vol.
VII, No. 1607. Cf. Gasquet, I, 191-2.
[1930] Chapter House Books, A 3/11, p. 62; Newcourt, Repert. I, 624.
[1931] Chapter House Books, A 3/11. One Thomas Cappes was priest of St.
Mary Magdalen, Old Fish Street, London, in 1540, and got into trouble for
his Protestant tendencies; Strype, Eccles. Memorials, I, p. 566; he is not
mentioned in Newcourt’s Repert. I, 453.
[1932] Ibid.
[1933] Foxe, Acts and Monuments, IV. 557; 8th Report of the Deputy Keeper,
App. II, p. 17.
[1934] Chapter House Books, A 3/11, p. 62; 8th Report of the Deputy
Keeper, App. II, p. 17.
[1935] Ibid. _ut supra_.
[1936] Eighth Report of the Deputy Keeper, App. II, p. 14; the deed is not
dated.
[1937] Boase, p. xi, 222; Reg. I. 8. fol. 138 b, 139, 139 b, 190, 190 b,
192 b.
[1938] Except, I think, one mentioned in the Reports of the Historical
Manuscripts Commission, but I have mislaid my reference to this.
[1939] Wood-Peshall, City of Oxford, p. 355.
[1940] MS. Sum̄.
[1941] For the grant of this area by the Abbat and Convent of Osney, at
the instance of Ela Longespee, Countess of Warwick, see Wood-Clark II, p.
474.
[1942] This is a reference to the letter dated May 7, 1262, already
mentioned; Pat. 46 Hen. III, m. 11. The word ‘_aliam_’ is not quite clear;
it may be _alteram_.
[1943] The following petition to the King (Parliamentary Petitions, 4299,
in the Record Office), probably refers to this grant, or possibly to the
grant of Richard Cary (p. 20); the petition is undated. ‘A notre seigneur
le Roi si luy plest prient les poures freres Menours de Oxenford qil lour
voille graunter la mortificacioun de vne place en Oxenford qe ne vaut qe
deux souz per an auxicome retourne est en la chauncellrie et qe est a nuly
preiudice.’ _Endorsed_; ‘Soit veu(?) lenqueste et le Roi en dirra sa
volonte.’
[1944] The edge of the parchment is worn away here.
[1945] Comp{r}.
[1946] This entry occurs a few lines before the foregoing on the same
membrane; it probably refers to the same embassy.
[1947] Formerly ‘Placita de juratis et assisis et corone 13 Edw. I, Oxon,
M. 5/2} 3, m. 55.’
[1948] pc̄.
[1949] _Sic._
[1950] Cf. Twyne MS. xxiii, 252, for an appearance of the Warden before
the Mayor’s Court in 1287. ‘Rot. Cur. die Lunae Oxon. proxim. post festum
assumptionis B. Mariae a{o} regni R. Edw. I. 15{o}. Memorandum quod
Johannes de Westover et Isolda uxor ejus venerunt ad curiam istam et
obtulerunt se clam(antes) versus Gardianum fratrum minorum Oxon. qui
venit, et petunt partes licentiam concordandi, et habent.’
[1951] He is probably to be identified with ‘Johannes Vallensis Anglus,
qui diu Londinii Theologiam docuit,’ who was promoted to the _Magisterium_
in 1368 by order of Pope Urban V, ‘laureante fratre Bernardo de
Guasconibus, ministro Tusciae, et Fratre Simone Bruni in Universitate
Tolosana;’ Wadding, vol. viii. p. 209. Wadding (viii. p. 533) gives a
letter addressed to John Welle, Minorite, S.T.P. and papal chaplain, A. D.
1372.
[1952] Mon. Franc. I, 539.
[1953] It is clear that J. Prophet was Dean of Hereford when this letter
was written; in another letter, referring to the same appointment, he
writes: ‘Cum predecessores mei decani et Capitulum herefordenses
fundatores in parte domus confratrum vestrorum hereford’ dinoscantur
existere.’ Harl. MS. 431, f. 100 b.
[1954] Wilkins, Concilia III, 459.
[1955] Afterwards Prior of Friars Preachers. London, Q. R. Wardrobe 6/4
(21 Edw. I).
[1956] sp̄c̄. some word like ‘elevans’ or ‘erigens’ is wanted to complete
the sense.
[1957] Qūō.
[1958] (or _nec_?)
[1959] t{n}tínat.’
[1960] MS. tenā.
[1961] sp̄t̄.
[1962] (tamen?)
[1963] Robert Kilwardby.
[1964] _Sic._
[1965] This word is added in the margin in a later hand.
[1966] p’toris.
[1967] MS. ad.
[1968] _Dicit_ inserted in a later hand.
[1969] MS. oc̄c̄osionē.
[1970] or _monere_.
[1971] _Vestri_ inserted in a later hand.
[1972] _Suum_ inserted in another hand.
[1973] The whole sentence is utterly ungrammatical, but quite
intelligible.
[1974] _Satisfacere_ inserted in another hand.
[1975] _de la_ inserted in another hand.
[1976] One letter, prob. c̄ (= cum) is illegible here, owing either to
intentional erasure or a flaw in the parchment.
[1977] MS. a{a} (alia?).
[1978] _detur_ inserted in another hand.
[1979] n{o} (nullo) or u{o} (vero) in MS.: or n{c} (nec)?
[1980] vr{m}.
[1981] _non deberent_ inserted in another hand.
[1982] MS. _cum_?
[1983] _transeat_ inserted in another hand.
[1984] Only four mentioned.
[1985] Afterwards lector at Paris, and Provincial Prior of England.
[1986] _se_ added in margin.
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