And Master Alisander that Chanon was er
Imaked was of Gloucestre Abbot thulk yer.
Viz. 7 Reg. Regis Johannis.
But this may be understood of Alexander Theologus, who was contempory with him: and was Abbot of St. Maries in Cirencester at the time of his death.
Bishop Godwin, in his Catalogue of the Bishops of Lincoln, maketh mention of a passage of wit betwixt him and Phillip Repington Bishop of Lincoln, the latter sending the Challenge.
Et niger & Nequam cum sis cognomine Nequam,
Nigrior esse potes, Nequior esse nequis.
Both black and bad, whilest Bad the name to thee,
Blacker thou may'st, but worse thou canst not be.
To whom Nequam rejoyned,