_Nicholas de Weston_, citizen of Oxford, left them 10_s._ in 1271[663].
_Walter de Merton_, Bishop of Rochester, Chancellor of England, and founder of Merton College, bequeathed twenty-five marks to them at his death in 1277[664].
_Thomas Waldere_, of Wycombe, left them 2_s._ in 1291[665].
_Amaury de Montfort_[666], papal chaplain, Treasurer of York, &c. in an elaborate will dated Feb. 2nd, 1300/1, ordered that ‘the goods and revenues of the aforesaid Treasury owed to him’ should be divided into three parts; one-third was to be subdivided into six parts; the sixth part was to be again subdivided into three parts, one of which was to go to the Friars Preachers of Oxford, Leicester, and elsewhere; the second
‘fratribus Minoribus, Carmelitis, Oxonii, Leycestrie, Parisius, et fratribus ordinis S. Trinitatis;’
the third, to pay any debts he might leave. As Amaury was dispossessed of the Treasurership in Aug. 1265 (after holding it only for a few months), and never recovered it, these bequests were merely a pious wish.
_John de Doclington_ bequeathed 20_s._ to each of the four Orders in Oxford in 1335[667].
_Nicholas Acton_[668], parson of the church of Wystantowe (Salop), and owner of property in London, left the Oxford Franciscans 40_s._ in 1337.
_William de Burchestre_ left them one marc in 1340[669].
_John son of Walter Wrenche_, of Milton, spicer, by a will dated May 4th, and proved on May 5th, 1349, gave to the Friars Preachers and Friars Minors of Oxford each ten quarters of corn[670].
_Edmund Bereford_[671], lord of several manors near Oxford, in his will dated Jan. 8th, 1350/1 and proved in 1354, gave, among many other pious bequests, 20_s._ at his death and 10_s._ on his anniversary to the Minorites.
‘Item volo quod xij trisennalia celebrentur pro anima mea, videlicet ... in quolibet ordine fratrum j trisennale.’
_Henry Malmesbury_, citizen of Oxford, left them 20_s._ in 1361[672].
_John de Bereford_[673], citizen and sometime Mayor of Oxford, bequeathed 13_s._ 4_d._ to each of the Orders in 1361,
‘ut habeant animam meam inter eorum missas recommendatam.... Item, cuilibet ordini fratrum predicatorum Minorum Carmelitarum et Augustinensium Oxon’, die sepulture mee 2_s._ 6_d._, et in die commemorationis anime mee in mensem 2_s._ 6_d._, et die anniversarii mei 2_s._ 6_d._’