William of Woodford

It was entitled Septuaginta Quæstiones de Sacramento Eucharistiæ, and is thought to have been composed as a course of lectures delivered in the Grey Friars' church, London, as a preparation for the Feast of Corpus Christi on 10 June 1381;[c] five manuscripts at least of this work are extant.

[2] There is little doubt that Woodford is the William de Wydford whom Margaret, Countess of Norfolk, described in 1384 as her "well-beloved father in God", and for the term of whose life she granted the Minoresses of Aldgate Without a yearly rent of twenty marks from "le Brokenwharf", London.

[f] In 1389 he was regent-master in theology among the minorites at Oxford, and in 1390 was vicar of the provincial minister; in both years he lectured against Wycliffe, and Thomas Netter was one of his pupils.

[g] Henceforth he seems to have resided principally at the Grey Friars, London, and in 1396 he obtained from Boniface IX sanction for the special privileges he enjoyed in this convent.

Bale, Pits, and Wadding state that he died in 1397 and was buried at Colchester, but Sbaralea pointed out that in one of his works Henry was referred to as King; he also says that Woodford was deputed from Oxford to attend a council in London in 1411.