CHAPTER VII. ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE FRIARS’ MANNER OF LIFE AND MEANS

OF LIVELIHOOD: BENEFACTORS. On the loss of Franciscan Records 89 Mendicancy as a means of livelihood 91 Procurators and limitors 92 Career of Friar Brian Sandon, legal _syndicus_ of the Oxford Friary in the sixteenth century 93 Charges of immorality against the Friars 94 Their worldly manner of life before the Dissolution 96 Poverty of the Convent 97 Sources of income 97 Annual grants from the King and others 97 Frequency of bequests to the Friars 100 List of benefactors 102 Some other sources of income 110 Classes from which the Friars were drawn 111 Motives which led men to enter the Order 111