Writers.
Jo. of Northampton, (in lat. Jo. Avonius) a Car∣melite, an Eminent Mathematician, wrote a Book entitled The Philosophers Ring, a Perpetual Alma∣nack; a Masterpiece of that Age. He flourished. 1340.
Robert Holcot, born in Holcot, and bred in Oxford, became a Dominican in Northam. A learned and prudent Man. He wrote many famous Treatises. He died of the plague 1349 at North∣am. before he had finished his Lectures on Eccle∣siastes. Note, The Plague about that time, so raged in England that our * 1.1 Chro∣niclers affirm, scarce a tenth person of all sorts was left alive.
Robert Dodford, born at Dodford, was a Benedic∣tine Monk in Ramsey. He wrote Postills on the Proverbs, which the envy of time hath intercept∣ed from us. He flourished about 1370.
Pet. Peteshull, an Augustinian, in Oxford disli∣king his Order, procured a dispensation to relin∣quish it, and became Honorary Chaplain to Pope Ʋrbain 6. He afterwards promoted the Doctrine of Wickliffe, and in his Exposition of the Prophe∣sie of Hildegardes, so taxed the pride and lazi∣ness of all Friers, that his Book was burnt, and himself fled to escape the same Fate. He flou∣rished. 1390.