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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.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 Iohn Felton, a doctor of diuinitie of Madgdalen college in Oxenford; Nicholas Botlesham, a Car|melit frier borne in Cambridgeshire, and student first in the vniuersitie of Cambridge, and after in Paris, where he proceeded doctor of diuinitie; Tho|mas Rudburne, a monke of Winchester, and an hi|storiographer; Iohn Holbrooke, borne in Surrie, a great philosopher, and well séene in the mathematiks; Peter Paine, an earnest professor of Wickliffes doctrine, and fearing persecution here in England, fled into Boheme, where he remained in great esti|mation for his great learning & no lesse wisedome; Nicholas Upton, a ciuilian, wrote of heraldrie, of colours in armorie, and of the dutie of chiualrie; William Beckeleie, a Carmelit frier of Sand|wich, & warden of the house there, a diuine, and pro|fessed degree of schoole in Cambridge; Iohn Torpe, a Carmelit frier of Norwich.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 Iohn Capgraue borne in Kent, and Augustine frier, procéeded doctor of diuinitie in Oxenford, was admitted prouinciall of his order, and prooued (with|out controuersie) the best learned of anie of that or|der of friers here in England, as Iohn Bale affir|meth, he wrote manie notable volumes, and final|lie departed this life at Lin in Norffolke, the twelfth of August, in the yere 1464, which was in the fourth yeare of king Edward the fourth; Hum [...]rie duke of Glocester, earle of Penbroke, and lord chamberlaine of England, also protector of the realme, during the minoritie of his nephue king Henrie the sixt, was both a great fauourer of learned men, and also verie well learned himselfe, namelie in astrologie, where|of (beside other things) he wrote a speciall treatise in|tituled, Tabula directionum.

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