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GREY FRIARS IN OXFORD
Oxford
HORACE HART, PRINTER TO THE UNIVERSITY
THE
GREY FRIARS IN OXFORD
PART I
A HISTORY OF THE CONVENT
PART II
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES OF THE FRIARS
TOGETHER WITH
APPENDICES OF ORIGINAL DOCUMENTS
BY
ANDREW G. LITTLE, M.A.
BALLIOL COLLEGE, OXFORD
Oxford
PRINTED FOR THE OXFORD HISTORICAL SOCIETY
AT THE CLARENDON PRESS
1892
[All rights reserved]
PREFACE.
The object of this work is to give an account of the outward life of the
Franciscans. This might be fairly taken to include the whole activity of the friars with the exception of their contribution to scholastic philosophy; for that clearly forms a subject by itself. But even with this limitation the account here given of the Franciscans’ work does not pretend to be complete. The documents which remain to us do not by any means cover the whole of the active life of the Franciscans.
While for the thirteenth century and the Dissolution the records are fairly numerous, the materials for the intervening period are very scanty. Thus any attempt at a chronological narrative was out of the question. And the almost total absence of all Franciscan records
(properly so called) in England, has proved an effectual bar to any completeness of treatment at all. The arrangement here adopted, both in the choice of subjects and in the relative prominence given to each of them, is due simply to the exigencies of the available materials relating to the Oxford Convent. The topographical information derived from records and other sources has been neither full enough nor accurate enough to enable me to supply a map or plan of the property and buildings of the Grey Friars.
A few words will be necessary to explain the plan pursued in Part II.
An endeavour has been made to collect the names of all the Grey
Friars who lived in the Convent at Oxford or who studied in the
University: the list, if complete, would have included all the names
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