[1622] MS. Bibl. Nat. Paris, 3221, § 5.
[1623] Wadding, X, 169: perhaps Thomas Wynchelse, who in 1427, ‘famosissimus doctor illius ordinis reputabatur;’ the only John Wynchelse, Minorite, mentioned elsewhere, died a novice about 1326. See notice of him.
[1624] Bale, I, 563. Blomfield, Norfolk, IV, 115.
[1625] Le Neve, Fasti, Vol. III. Wood, Hist. et Antiq. Oxon, II, 404.
[1626] Fascic. Zizan. p. 417.
[1627] Bale, Pits, &c. Clopton was chief justice under Richard II; see e.g. Close Roll, 13 Ric. II, part 2, m. 4, in dorso.
[1628] Leland, Script. 433.
[1629] His epitaph contains the lines:
‘Anglia gaudet eum doctum fecisse magistrum,
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Inbibit Oxonie musis nova pocula morum.’
See B. Gebhardt, Matthias Döring der Minorit, Sybel’s Hist. Ztschr. for 1888, pp. 251, 293-4. Most of the statements here are derived from Gebhardt’s article, a general reference to which will suffice. Cf. Wadding, Annales, XI, 49, 180; XII, 276, &c.