[1] In his daies manie learned men liued, as Gef|frey Uinesaufe, Simon Fraxinus aliàs Ash, Ada|mus Dorensis, Gualter de Constantijs first bishop of Lincolne and after archbishop of Rouen, Iohn de Oxford, Colman surnamed Sapiens, Richard Ca|nonicus, William Peregrine, Alane Te [...]kesburie, Simon Thurnaie, Bale, who being an excellent philosopher but standing too much in his owne conceit, vpon a sudden did so forget all his knowledge in learning, that he became the most ignorant of all other, a pu|nishment (as was thought) appointed him of God, for such blasphemies as he had wickedlie vttered, both against Moses and Christ. Geruasius Dorobernen|sis, Iohn Hanwill, Nigell Woreker, Gilbert de Hoiland, Benet de Peterburgh, William Parnus a moonke of Newburgh, Roger Houeden, Hubert Walter, first bishop of Salisburie and after archbi|shop of Canturburie, Alexander Theologus, of whome yee haue heard before, Geruasius Tilberien|sis, Syluester Giraldus Cambrensis, who wrote manie treatises, Ioseph Deuonius, Walter Mapis, Radulfus de Diceto, Gilbert Legley, Mauricius Morganius, Walter Morganius, Iohn de Forde|ham, William Leicester, Ioceline Brakeland, Ro|ger of Crowland, Hugh White aliàs Candidus that wrote an historie intituled Historia Petroburgensis, Iohn de saint Omer, Adam Barking, Iohn Gray an hi|storiographer and bishop of Norwich, Walter of Couentrie, Radulphus Niger, &c. Sée Bale Scripto|rum Britanniae centuria tertia.