Athenæ Oxonienses. The History of Oxford Writers. Vol. 1, p. 6
William Galeon
a Norfolk Man Born, did
in his Manly Years, take upon him the Habit of the
Friers of the Order of St. Austin the Hermit at Lynn Regis
in his own Country; Studied several Years in this University
among the Brethren of that Order in their College
there, proceeded (o)(o) Ibid. in Bal. cent. 8. num. 91. Doctor of Divinity at Oxon,
and at length was made Provincial of his Order, that is
the chief Governor of the said Brethren, living in the
Province of England; he being then accounted a most
eminent Person for Literature and Piety, and the prime
example among those of his Society for all kind of Virtue
and Learning. He hath written and left to Posterity,
Lectiones in Theologia.
Disputationes Variae.
Course of Sermons for the whole Year, Preached to the People.—Besides other things which I have not yet seen. He paid his last debt to Nature at Lynn before-mentioned in Fifteen hundred and seven, 1507 (22. and 23. of Hen 7.) and was buried in the Church there belonging to the Friers of St. Austin. Joseph. Pamphilus Bishop of Segni saith (p)(p) In Chron. ord. Fratrum eremit. Edit. Romae 1581. in qu. Fol. 92. b. that he died in 1500, Aged 90 Years, but falsly, for all Authors, except himself, say otherwise.