Athenæ Oxonienses. The History of Oxford Writers. Vol. 1, p. 36
John Kynton
was by rule or order a Minorite or Greyfrier, and being a Man of parts, and noted for his proficiency in Divinity, the Society of Magd. Coll. made choice of him to be their Reader of that faculty within their House. Which Office he performing with great honour for several Years, the Doctors and Bach. of Div. of the University, elected him Margaret Professor in the place of Joh. Roper, being then D. of D. and a Person of great note in the University. He wrot at the command of the King, an. 1521.
Tract. contra doctrinam Mart. Lutheri. Whether this, or any thing else that he did write, were ever printed, I know not.1535-36. He died in Fifteen hundred thirty and five, and was, as I conceive, buried in the Chappel of Durham, now Trinitie, College in Oxon. for on a little Gravestone there, yet remaining, is written this. Obiit Johannes Kynton Frater minor, sacrae Theologiae professor, 20. Januar. 1535.