[1432] Rejected by Wadding without good reason: Hist. Litt. xxv, 447.
[1433] Twyne MS. XXII, 103 c.
[1434] Wood MS. F 29 a, 178: ‘Rob. de Couton’ is the eighteenth in the list of twenty-two names.
[1435] ‘Doctor amoenus vulgo vocatus est.’ Pits, p. 443 (anno 1340).
[1436] I have not found any mention of Robert Cowton in any foreign library, unless ‘Cathon’ in Bibl. Nat. Paris MSS. 15886-7, be for Cowton. Valentinelli proposes to identify Cowton with ‘Frater ven. doctor Robertus Anglicus ordinis Minorum,’ the author of a Dialogus de formalitatibus inter Ochanistam et Dumsistam (sic): inc. ‘quod verbis vituperii satis abundas’; MS. Venice; St. Mark, Vol. I. Class. V, Cod. 24 (sec. xv). The author was probably later than Cowton; perhaps Robert Eliphat.
[1437] Ann. Min. VI, 176: Wadding refers vaguely to ‘Irish MSS.’ Cf. Bale, Script. II, 242-3. Dict. of Nat. Biography.
[1438] Willot, Athenae, 83. Bale, Vol. II, p. 52: ‘Sophisticus doctor et scriptor antiquus.’ William Woodford refers on several occasions to ‘Doctor antiquus’ on the Sentences; Harl. MS. 31, f. 79, &c.
[1439] Bale gives these notes in MS. Seld. sup. 64, fol. 16 b: Brynkeley ... scripsit distinctiones theologicas, lib. I; ‘Ad sciendam primam originem et finalem’; ex Ramesiensi monasterio. Brenkyll Minorita scripsit lecturam sententiarum, lib. IV; ‘Utrum per aliquam disciplinam vel scientiam’; ex Coll. Regine Oxon. Brinquilis Minorita anglus scripsit super sententias, lib. IV; ‘Sit aliqua conclusio theologica’; Ex bibl. Carmel. Parisiensium.
[1440] Mon. Franc. I, 543; Brodrick, Mem. of Merton Coll., 197-8; Bale, Script. I, 391.
[1441] Tanner, Bibl. 150. All Souls MS. 87 (A. D. 1473), ‘Joannis Scoti discipulus.’ The note in Peterhouse MS. 2-4-2, ‘studiit Oxon et Paris,’ is in a late sixteenth-century hand.