John Griffin

or Griffith a Welsh Man born, and a Monk of the Order of Cistercians in the Monastery of Hales Owen in Worcestershire, was educated among those of his Order in the College of St. Bernard in the North Suburb of Oxon, but what degree he took I cannot yet find. Several of both his names, and of his time have taken Degrees in the Canon Law and Divinity, but which of them is this that I am now upon, I cannot say. He is reported to have been a pious and learned Man, but being unacquainted with the dealings of the World had like to have been drawn over to the Reformed Religion, but was in due time (m)(m) Jo. Pits. in Aet. 16. nu. 983. fastned in his faith again to the great joy of the Rom. Catholicks, who held him to be a most excellent Preacher, whether in the Lat. or English tongue. He hath published,

Conciones aestuales.

Conciones hyemales. Clar. 1550. With other things which I have not yet seen. As for the time of his death and place of burial, I cannot yet find, he having been several Years thrust out of his Monastery at the dissolution of Religious Houses. He was living in the Reign of K. Ed. 6. and perhaps in that of Qu. Mary.