Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (3 of 6): England (3 of 9): Henrie the Sixt, Sonne and Heire to Henrie the FiftHolinshed, Raphael
History
Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (3 of 6): England (3 of 9): Henrie the Sixt, Sonne and Heire to Henrie the Fift
Holinshed, Raphael
Great Britain -- History -- Henry VI, 1422-1461; Great Britain -- History -- To 1485; Great Britain -- History -- Tudors, 1485-1603
Alexander Carpentar, a learned man, set foorth a booke called
Destructorium vitiorum, wherein he inueieth against the prelats of the
church of that time, for their crueltie vsed, in persecuting the poore
and godlie christians; Richard Kendall, an excellent grammarian; Iohn
Bate, warden of the white friers in Yorke, but borne in the borders of
Wales, an excellent philosopher, and a diuine, he was also séene in the
Gréeke toong, a thing rare in those daies; Peter Basset, esquier of
the priuie chamber to king Henrie the fift, whose life he wrote; Iohn
Pole a priest, that wrote the life of saint Walburgh, daughter to one
Richard, a noble man of this realme of England, which Walburgh (as he
affirmeth) builded our ladie church in Antwerpe; Thomas Ismaelit, a
monke of Sion; Walter Hilton, a Chartreaux monke also of Shiene, either
of those wrote certeine treatises full of superstition, as Iohn Bale
noteth.
[Sidenote: _Fabian and Caxton._]
Thomas Walden so called of the towne where he was borne, but his
fathers surname was Netter, a white frier of London, and the thrée
and twentith prouinciall gouernour of his order, a man vndoubtedlie
learned, and thoroughlie furnished with cunning of the schooles, but a
sore enimie to them that professed the doctrine of Wickliffe, writing
sundrie great volumes and treatises against them, he died at Rone in
Normandie, the second of Nouember, in the yeare one thousand foure
hundred and thirtie; Richard Ullerston, borne in Lancashire, wrote
diuerse treatises of diuinitie; Peter Clearke, a student in Oxenford,
and a defendor of Wickliffes doctrine, wherevpon when he feared
persecution here in England, he fled into Boheme, but yet at length he
was apprehended by the imperialists, and died for it, as some write,
but in what order, is not expressed.
Robert Hounslow, a religious man of an house in Hounslow beside London,
whereof he tooke his surname; Thomas Walsingham, borne in Norffolke,
in a towne there of the same name, but professed a monke in the abbeie
of saint Albons, a diligent historiographer; Iohn Tilneie, a white
frier of Yermouth, but a student in Cambridge, and prooued an excellent
diuine; Richard Fleming, a doctor of diuinitie in Oxenford, of whome
more at large before, pag. 169. Iohn Low borne in Worcestershire, an
Augustine frier, a doctor of diuinitie, and prouinciall in England of
his order, and by king Henrie the sixt, made first bishop of saint
Asaph, and after remooued from thense to Rochester; Thomas Ringsted the
yoonger, not the same that was bishop, but a doctor of the law, and
vicar of Mildenhall in Suffolke, a notable preacher, and wrote diuerse
treatises.
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