Of Men of note in his time.
IN this Kings time, of Martiall men were many, whose Acts have beene spoken of in the late Kings life. Of Learned men, also many, as Iohn Duns the great Logician, called Doctor Subtilis, borne in Northumberland, at Emildune a Village three miles distant from Al••wi••ke; though both the Scots and the Irish challenge him for thei••s. Robert Walsingham a Carmelite Fryer, who wrote divers Treatises. Robert Baston borne in Nottingham-shire, a Carmelite Fryer of Scarborough, whom King Edward tooke with him into Scotland, to write some Remembrances of his victories; but being taken by the Scots was constrained by Robert Bruce to write Remembrances of his overthrowes. William Rishanger, a Monke of Saint Albans, an Historiographer; Ralph Baldocke Bishop of London, who wrote a History inti∣tuled Historia Anglica; Iohn Walsingham, a Carmelite Fryer, who wrote divers Trea∣tises; Nicholas de Lyra a Jew by birth, who wrote many excellent Treatises in Di∣vinity; William Ockam a Fryer Minor, who wrote divers Treatises, and namely a∣gainst Iohn Duns, and also against Pope Iohn the 23. in favour of the Emperour Lewis of Bavaria; Thomas Haselwood, a Canon of Leedes in Kent, who wrote a Chro∣nicle, called Chronicon compendiarium; Robert Perscrutator, borne in Yorkeshire, a blacke Fryer and a Philosopher, or rather a Magician; and lastly, though not least worthy to be remembred, Iohn Mandevile, the great Travellour, a Doctor of Physicke, and a Knight.