Abstract
The four main mendicant orders of the Franciscans, Dominicans, Carmelites and Austin Friars all had substantial and impressive houses within the City of London, established in the thirteenth century. There was also a house of Crutched Friars near the Tower of London. The membership of these houses in the later middle ages can be at least partially reconstructed using the episcopal ordination lists which survive for the diocese of London from 1361. An analysis of ordinations from the London bishops' registers identifies a total of just over 750 individual friars attached to mendicant houses in the City of London in the period from 1361 to 1400. The ordination list material can be used to investigate the changes in recruitment patterns of each of the London mendicant houses. This reveals a particular enthusiasm for those houses associated with ascetic practices. In particular the houses of Carmelites and Austin Friars were being supported but also the smaller house of Crutched Friars which seems to have substantially increased its recruitment as reflected in ordination lists between the 1360s and 1390s.
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