Now somewhat in casting vpon this deuout mans deuise and compasse; to consider the companie of students there, that in seuerall sciences and sundrie professions are not a few; then their assigned studies and exercises in them, their steps in rising & reward for diligence, from the lowest logician to the highest degrées of doctrine in schooles, their officers in house, their orders for gouernance in maners, in safegard of health and helpe in sicknesse: and that chiefest is, the reuenues certeine for prouision & maintenance of all, it may be a question not easie to answer: whe|ther at first in this founders meditation vpon such a worke were a mind more magnifike, or a more am|plitude of abilitie after in so absolute a forme to per|forme it, or else a profounder wisedome for perpetui|tie into so perfect an order in all points to haue fixt it.

It was a fashion at those daies, long also afore, & since, from a learned spirituall man to take awaie the fathers surname (were it neuer so worshipfull or ancient) and giue him for it the name of the towne he was borne in: Bale. and so was Richard Notingham a learned frier minorite in king Edward the seconds daies called of Notingham where he was borne; Iohn Olneie a learned monke in those daies also, named of an Iland wherein he was borne nie Gloce|ster; of Barton in Lincolnshire one William Bar|ton in Richard the seconds reigne, for that time a fa|mous doctor and chancellor of Oxford; Water Disse, of Disse in Suffolke a learned Carmelite frier, con|fessour to the duke and duchesse of Lancaster in king Henrie the fourths reigne; Richard Hampoole of a towne in Yorkeshire, a zelous doctor, and after a ver|tuous heremit in king Henrie the sixts daies.

And after this sort manie hundreds more that had their names so altered; as euen in like maner vnto this reuerend prelat in the prime of his towardnesse was changed his fathers surname Paten to Wain|fléet of the towne where hee was borne in Lin|colneshire:Williã W [...]|fleet bishop [...] Winchester, lord chancel|lor of Eng|land, founder of Magdel [...] college in Oxford. a matter right proueable aswell by the records of the house there extant, as by a faire déed re|maining among other his proper euidences, in the hands of the worshipfull maister Thomas Fanshaw esquier, the quéenes maiesties remembrancer in the escheker at Westminster. And as the names of Germin, German, Germi, are but for one name though diuerslie wrested, and all to remember Ger|manie, the countrie their ancestors came from; and also as Iute, Iud, and Chute, are all but for the race of Iutes, An. Dom 44 [...] Malmesb [...]e. one of the thrée first Germane nations that came in with Horsus and Hengist; and Caltrap, Caltrop and Calthorp was all but for Caldthorp (that signifieth a cold towne) how euer it be otherwise wri|ed: euen so Paten, Patin, Patten, or Patent, is but a mention of the old Saxon name, that trulie at first was Patan; of Pate, the sole of the foot, and thereof Patan to signifie flat footed, as among the Latines they were called Plautus or Plancus: so Cicero of a chiche or tare; Nasones, Labiones and Labieni, well nosed and lipt; & manie more after that sort in manie toongs else so deriued.