Richard Turpin

was descended from an ancient Family of his name living at Knaptoft in Leicestershire (extracted from that of the Turpins of Whitchester in Northumberland) and educated for a time in Grammatical and Academical Learning in this University. Whence being taken before he was honored with a Degree, spent afterwards his chief time in Military Affairs at Calice in France, under King Hen. 8. He hath written,

A Chronicle—containing matters only of his time;154 [•] . and dying at Calice before mention’d in Fifteen hundred forty and one (33. Hen. 8.) was buried in the Church of St. Nicholas there, leaving then behind him the Character of a Worthy Gentleman.