MS. Brit. Museum:--Burney 358 (sec. xiv)--mutilated at the beginning.
_Sermo Fratris Guillermi de la Mare regentis in Theologia._ (On St. Peter.) _Inc._ ‘Precurrens ascendit in arborem sycomorum.... Fratres orate ut sermo Dei currat et clarificetur.’
_Expositio libri Physicorum Aristotelis_; and _Comment. in libros 1, 2, et 3, Sententiarum_[1395].
MSS. Sta. Croce, Florence 380, 381, 382, 383; mentioned in Wadding, _Sup. ad Script._ These MSS. are now in the Laurentiana, _ex Bibl. S. Crucis_, Plut. xxxiv. Sin. Codd. iv, v, vi, vii, but they do not seem to contain the _Physics_.
_Quaestiones tres philosophicae per Gulielmum (de Mara?) de Anglia, fratrem ordinis Minorum._ _Inc._ ‘Est dubitacio utrum lineam componam ex punctis.’
MS. Bodl. Canon. Misc. 226, f. 76 (sec. xv). There seems no reason for attributing these to W. de Mara rather than to William of Ockham, or any English Minorite named William[1396].
=John of Oxford=, Friar Minor, was ordained priest by Peckham in 1284[1397].
=Richard de Slekeburne= (co. Durham), confessor of Devorguila, played an important part in the foundation of Balliol College: this has already been referred to[1398]. There is no direct proof that Friar Richard was himself at Oxford. Several documents relating to him are preserved in the Balliol College Archives, and described in the Reports of the Hist. MSS. Commission[1399].
(1) A letter of Devorguila to him, in which she speaks of
‘the alms of the poor scholars of our House of Balliol now studying at Oxford,’
and urges Friar Richard by all means in his power to promote the perpetuation of the said house, A. D. 1284.
(2) A grant by the executors of Sir John Balliol of sums to the scholars, with the consent of Devorguila and at the advice of Friar R. de Slekeburne (three deeds, 1285-1286).
(3) A confirmation by Friar Richard of another grant by Sir J. Balliol’s executors of debts due to Sir John: the confirmatory deed is dated Coventry, 1287.
=William of Exeter= was summoned in 1289 from Oxford by Deodatus, Warden of the Friars Minors of Exeter[1400], to assist him in choosing a new site for the convent[1401].
=William of Leominster= is placed among the Franciscans by Pits, but it is not certain that he belonged to this Order[1402]. He was a friar and master of Oxford in 1290; in this year his name appears as one of the masters who gave their consent on behalf of the University to the compromise, effected by the intervention of the King and his council, concerning the right of the bishop of Lincoln to confirm the Chancellor-elect[1403]. Bale states that he had seen this friar’s _Collationes Sententiarum_ and _Quaestiones Theologiae_, at London, ‘_in quadam officina_’[1404].