[1] Iohn Lidgate, a monke of Burie, an excellent poet, and chiefe in his time in that facultie, of all o|ther that practised the same within this land, he tra|uelled thorough France and Italie to learne the lan|guages and sciences, how greatlie he profited in at|teining to knowledge, the workes which he wrote doo sufficientlie testifie; Nicholas Hostresham, an ex|cellent physician; Iohn Blackeneie, a religious man, of the order of the Trinitie intituled, De redemptione captiuorum, and prior of an house of the same order, at Ingham in Norffolke, he was surnamed Blacke|neie, of the towne where he was borne; Thomas Beckington, bishop of Bath, wrote against the law Salique, by which law the Frenchmen would se|clude the princes of this realme from their title vnto the crowne of France; Iohn Baringham a Car|melite frier of Gippeswich in Suffolke; Dauid Bois, borne in Wales, and a frier Carmelit, pro|fessed [page 663] in Glocester, a doctor of diuinitie.