[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.