“MALLEUS PAPISTARUM.”
Dr. Sutherland, the friend and literary associate of Dr. Mead, and others, obtained the soubriquet of
“THE WALKING DICTIONARY.”
John Duns, better known as the celebrated Duns Scotus, who was bred at Merton College, Oxford, and is said to have been buried alive, was called
DOCTOR SUBTILIS;
Another Mertonian, named Occam, his successor and opponent, was named
DOCTOR INVINCIBILIS;
A third was the famous Sir Henry Savile, who had the title of