‘Item anno domini 1343 in capitulo provinciali Londoniis celebrato, et in Oxonia plurimis vicibus prius et post in studio secum commoranti, frater Hermanus de Colonia fratri Johanni de Latthebury retulit viva voce, quod in patria sua est quedam villa que vulgariter dicatur Enger, de qua Anglia vocaliter derivatur, et prope illam villam ad distanciam unius miliarii est quedam quercus, arbor ingens et antiqua, ad quam ipse cum esset puerulus ex more patrie cum reliquis concurrebat. Nam omni nocte nativitatis Christi, quasi nocte media, quercus illa glandes grandes et perfectas subita apparicione ex se profert et producit copiose. Unde et incole illius patrie annuatim illa nocte ad illum locum turmatim ex consuetudine concurrunt, et ibi cum luminibus et lanternis vigilantes, horam solitam expectant et explorant, bibentes, edentes, ludentes et noctem insompnem ducentes, habentes secum lapides, baculos et saculos pro fructu arboris excuciendo et asportando.’ There appear to have been two contemporary Minorites of the same name and family. Bale, after mentioning the commentaries of John Ridevaus on the letter of Valerius to Rufinus and the mythologies of Fulgentius, adds[1481]: ‘Hos libros cum multis aliis Joannes Lathbury senior contulit juniori Joanni Lathbury A. D. 1348. Ex cenobio Minorum Radinge.’ The elder died at Reading at an advanced age in 1362, the younger at Northampton in 1375[1482]. It is not clear which of the two was the author. The best known work of John Lathbury is his _Commentary on Lamentations_, or _Liber moralium in Threnos Hieremiae_, or _Lectura super librum Threnorum._ _Inc._ ‘Juxta mores modernorum.’ MSS. Oxford:--Merton Coll. 189--Exeter Coll. 27, &c. Printed at Oxford in 1482, being one of the first books issued by the Oxford press. _Distinctionum liber theologicarum_, or _Alphabetum morale._ _Inc._ ‘Abstinendum est a carnalibus delitiis.’ MSS. Brit. Mus.: Royal 11 A xiii (sec. xv). Oxford:--Exeter Coll. 26 (sec. xv), with the note ‘Johannes Latbury, doctor de ordine fratrum minorum, qui fecit lecturam super librum Trenorum, compilavit istum tractatum.’ Cambridge:--Peterhouse 96. _De luxuria clericorum._ Extracts from this treatise of Lathbury’s are in MS. Bodl. James 19 (Cf. Bernard’s Catal. I, 260 b), from MSS. in Exeter College: the treatise itself seems to be extracted from the _Distinctiones_. _De timore et amore Domini_, &c., _secundum Johannem Lathbury, Thomam de Alquino ... aliosque_. MS. Oxford:--Magd. Coll. 93 (A. D. 1438); perhaps merely excerpts from some other work. _Super Acta Apostolorum._ _Inc._ ‘Superedificati estis supra fundamentum apostolorum.’ Mentioned by Bale (MS. Seld. sup. 64, fol. 89) ‘ex musaeo Rob. Talbot.’