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.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 Robert Hounslow, a religious man of an house in Hounslow beside London, whereof he tooke his surname; Thomas Walsingham, borne in Norf|folke, in a towne there of the same name, but profes|sed a monke in the abbeie of saint Albons, a diligent historiographer; Iohn Tilneie, a white frier of Yer|mouth, but a student in Cambridge, and prooued an excellent diuine; Richard Fleming, a doctor of diui|nitie in Oxenford, of whome more at large before, pag. 604. Iohn Low borne in Worcestershire, an Augustine frier, a doctor of diuinitie, and prouin|ciall in England of his order, and by king Henrie the sixt, made first bishop of saint Asaph, and after re|mooued from thense to Rochester; Thomas Ring|sted the yoonger, not the same that was bishop, but a doctor of the law, and vicar of Mildenhall in Suf|folke, a notable preacher, and wrote diuerse trea|tises.