Compare 1577 edition: 1 But now before we procéed anie further, sith the reigne of king Henrie maie séeme here to take end, we will specifie some such learned men as liued in his time. Iohn Leland, surnamed the elder (in re|spect of the other Iohn Leland, that painefull anti|quarie of our time) wrote diuerse treatises, for the instruction of grammarians; Iohn Hainton, a Carmelit or white frier (as they called them) of Lin|colne; Robert Colman, a Franciscane frier of Nor|wich, and chancellor of the vniuersitie of Oxenford; William White a priest of Kent, professing the doc|trine of Wickliffe, and forsaking the order of the Romane church, married a wife, but continued his office of preaching, till at length, in the yeare 1428, he was apprehended, and by William bishop of Nor|wich, and the doctors of the friers mendicants, char|ged with thirtie articles, which he mainteined, con|trarie to the doctrine of the Romane church, and in September the same yeare suffered death by fire.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 Alexander Carpentar, a learned man, set foorth a booke called Destructorium vitiorum, wherein he inuei|eth against the prelats of the church of that time, for their crueltie vsed, in persecuting the poore and godlie christians; Richard Kendall, an excellent gram|marian; Iohn Bate, warden of the white friers in Yorke, but borne in the borders of Wales, an excel|lent philosopher, and a diuine, he was also séene in the Gréeke toong,Peter Basset wrote king Henrie the fift his life. 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.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 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 pro|uinciall gouernour of his order, a man vndoubted|lie learned, and thoroughlie furnished with cunning of the schooles, but a sore enimie to them that profes|sed 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 di|uerse treatises of diuinitie; Peter Clearke, a stu|dent in Oxenford, and a defendor of Wickliffes doc|trine, 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, Fabian and Caxton. but in what order, is not expressed.