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
Iohn Lidgate, a monke of Burie, an excellent poet, and chiefe in
his time in that facultie, of all other that practised the same
within this land, he trauelled thorough France and Italie to learne
the languages and sciences, how greatlie he profited in atteining
to knowlege, the workes which he wrote doo sufficientlie testifie;
Nicholas Hostresham, an excellent physician; Iohn Blackeneie, a
religious man, of the order of the Trinitie intituled, De redemptione
captiuorum, and prior of an house of the same order, at Ingham in
Norffolke, he was surnamed Blackeneie, of the towne where he was borne;
Thomas Beckington, bishop of Bath, wrote against the law Salique, by
which law the Frenchmen would seclude the princes of this realme from
their title vnto the crowne of France; Iohn Baringham, a Carmelite
frier of Gippeswich in Suffolke; Dauid Bois, borne in Wales, and a
frier Carmelit, professed in Glocester, a doctor of diuinitie.
Iohn Brome, an Augustine frier; Michaell Trigurie, a Cornishman borne,
whome for his excellencie and learning, king Henrie the fift appointed
to be gouernour of that schoole or vniuersitie, which he instituted
in the citie of Caen in Normandie, after he had brought it vnder his
subiection; Iohn Amundisham, a moonke of saint Albons; Oswald Anglicus,
a moonke of the Chartreux order; Iohn Keningale, a Carmelit frier of
Norwich; Peter De sancta fide, a Carmelit also of Norwich; Reginald
Pecocke, bishop of Chichester, of whome ye haue heard before, he was
borne in Wales, and student in Oriall college in Oxenford, where he
procéeded doctor of diuinitie, he wrote manie treatises touching the
christian religion; Iohn surnamed Burie of the towne where he was
borne, an Augustine frier in the towne of Clare in Suffolke.
Robert Fleming, a man perfect in the Gréeke and Latine toong [among
whose works some haue béene séene vnder these titles: namelie,
Lucubrationum Tiburtinarm lib. 1. a dictionarie in Gréeke and Latine,
and a worke in verse of sundrie kinds, this man was of most fame in
the yeare of our Lord 1470, which was in the tenth yeare of Edward the
fourth, though he were not obscure also in the daies of this Henrie
the sixt;] Thomas Gascoigne, borne at Hunfléete in Yorkeshire, of that
worshipfull familie of the Gascoignes there, a doctor of diuinitie, and
chancellor of the vniuersitie of Oxenford; William Stapilhart, borne in
Kent, but by profession a white frier in London; Robert Fimingham borne
in Norffolke a Franciscan frier in Norwich; Nicholas Montacute, an
historiographer; Iohn Chandler, chancellor of Welles; William Botoner,
descended of a good house, a knight by degrée, and borne in Bristow,
verie studious in antiquities, and other sciences.
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