Thomas Fich

was an Irish Man born, and a Student for some time in Oxon, as certain imperfect Notes shew, but what Degree he took, I find not. Afterwards upon his return into his Country, being then, if not some years before, a Canon Regular, he became Subprior of the Cathedral Church of the Holy Trinity in Dublin, and in his elder years wrote,

De rebus Ecclesiae Cath. SS. Trinit. Dublin, lib. 1. It is in MS. and was sometimes in the Library of Sir James Ware, who saith it was usually called The White Book, and takes it to be the same (f)(f) See in his first Book De Scriptoribus Hibern. cap. 12. with the Obital Book of that Church, for in his time it was written, as by the Character it appears, being at this day reserved as a great rarity in the Library of Trinity College near Dublin. This person, Tho. Fich, who is supposed to have written other things, gave way to fare on the sixteenth of the Cal. of Febr. in Fifteen hundred and seventeen, 1517 which was the ninth year of King Henry 8. and was buried in the aforesaid Cathedral Church.