, one of our earliest antiquaries, was born at Thorp, in Northamptonshire,
, one of our earliest antiquaries, was
born at Thorp, in Northamptonshire, and was educated at
Winchester school, whence he was admitted of New college,
Oxford, in 1525. He left the university in 1530, but
took the degree of D. D. either there or in some other
place. In 1541 he was made a prebendary of Wells, and
April 9, 1547, treasurer of the cathedral church of Norwich, which he possessed at the time of his death, Aug.
27, 1558. He was a very diligent searcher into the antiquities of his country, and his collections proved of great
service to Leland, Bale, Caius, Camden, and others. He
also furnished archbishop Parker with many Saxon books,
some of which he had from Dr. Ovvtn, physician to Henry
VIII. He left his Mss. to New college. He was the first
of our countrymen who illustrated Antoniiins’s Itinerary
with various readings and notes, which were of great use
to Camuen, and are printed by Hearne at the end of the
third volume of Leland’s Itinerary from a ms in the Bodleian library, which belonged to John Stowe, and is in his
ha 1 iwriting; but Talbot’s notes reach only to the sixth
her. Two other copies are in Bene't college library a
fourth is in Caius college library, with additions by Dr.
Caius; and a fifth in the Cotton library. Camden followed
his settlement of the stations in most instances, but William B 1 ir ton frequently differs from him in his “Commentary on Antoninus his Itinerary.
” His other Mss. are “Aurum ex Stercore vel de Ænigmaticis et PropliL j ticis,
” in
Corpus college, Oxford; and “De chartis quibusdamRegnm Britannorurn,
” in Bene't college, Cambridge.