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Title: The English Dominicans
Year: 1921 (1920s)
Authors: Jarrett, Bede, 1881-1934
Subjects: Dominicans
Publisher: London : Burns, Oates and Washbourne
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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es whom she had invited
to entertain Sir John de Hainault and his suite, sat down other table.
So, too, at Shrewsbury the queen of Edward IV gave birth
in the Dominican Priory to two sons, one of whom was the
luckless Richard of York, murdered by Uncle Glo'ster in
the Tower. And at Oxford what is supposed to be the guest
house remains; indeed, it is all that does remain. Here, how-
ever, there is matter for long discussion, since it was at the
Blackfriars that the Bishop of Lincoln stayed on his visits to
Oxford, so that some of his official deeds are dated from his
"{{<|mansio}} among the Preachers," and it is quite possible that
this mansio is the old black and white house still standing at
the corner of Rose Place and Grandpont Street.

¹ Merry England, April 1889, p. 440,
² Contrast Constitutions of 1228 (Analecta, 1896) and those of 1241
(Analecta, 1897).
³ Humbertus, vol. ii, pp. 3i7-3i9.
⁴ Merry England 1889, p. 276, etc.
⁵ Yorkshire Archaeological Journal 1881, p. 10.
⁶ Reliquary Oct. 1885, p. 79.

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The Priory 37
The guest house had a guest master, a priest, who was
exhorted to be of gay humour, a lovable man, yet grave
withal, tactful of speech and unsparing of his time. To each
guest he was to offer bread and wine, but should they stay too
long he had the unpleasant task of hinting and hastening their
departure.¹
The chapter-house has already been mentioned as part of
the west wing in the London Blackfriars, and the Crede de-
scribes its frescoed walls and high windows like a great church.
It became, indeed, subsequently the church of St. Anne,
which had some sort of parochial jurisdiction, for the prior
had always to appoint for its services "a sufficient curate"²
The building dated back to 1281, when Master Richard de
Stratford, a novice and not a professed brother, brought into
court his own testament and caused it to be proved, in which
he assigned certain tenements to be sold, and the proceeds to
be devoted to the erection of a chapter-house.³ Ordinarily it
was a rather lofty hall, with seats with seats all along the walls ;

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