John Walleys or Wallensis [q. v.], and is sometimes found divided into two parts, ‘Flores Biblici’ and ‘Flores Doctorum.’ It was a favourite work in the middle ages, and copies exist in many English, French, and Italian libraries. It was printed at Piacenza in 1483, and at Venice in 1492, and many times in the sixteenth century. 2. ‘Tractatus de tribus punctis Christianæ religionis,’ beginning ‘Incipit liber de regulis omnium Christianorum.’ In the Sorbonne MSS. 594 it is dated 1316. Another manuscript (Montfaucon, Bibliotheca, ii. 1260) calls the author Thomas Hibernicus, doctor. This work was printed at Lübeck in 1496 (Hain, Repertorium, iii. 5844). 3. ‘Commendatio theologica,’ beginning ‘Sapientia ædificavit sibi,’ in the Sorbonne MS. 594 and 1010. 4. ‘Tractatus de tribus hierarchiis tam angelicis quam ecclesiasticis,’ in the Sorbonne MS. 1010. 5. ‘De tribus sensibus sacræ scripturæ.’ 6. ‘In primam et secundam sententiarum,’ beginning ‘Circa primam distinctionem,’ a folio in the Sorbonne Library. Ware ascribed to him: 7. ‘De illusionibus dæmonum.’ 8. ‘De tentatione diaboli.’ 9. ‘De remediis vitiorum.’
Thomas de Hibernia (d. 1270), a learned Franciscan, must be distinguished from the subject of the preceding article. He went to Italy, and was taught by Peter de Hibernia [q. v.] (Wadding, Ann. Min. iv. 321). Thomas was a man of profound humility, and rather than become a priest he cut off his left thumb. He died in 1269–70, and was buried in the monastery of St. Bernard in Aquila. He wrote the ‘Promptuarium Morale,’ which Wadding printed, together with the Concordances of St. Anthony, at Rome in 1624.
[Wadding's Annales Minorum, iv. 302, 321; Sbaralea's Supplementum ad Scriptores a Waddingo descriptos, 1806, p. 679; Quétif and Echard's Scriptores Ordinis Predicatorum, i. 744; Tanner's Bibl. Brit.; Ware, De Scriptoribus Hiberniæ, i. 60; Delisle's Cabinet de MSS. ii. 176.]
THOMAS de la More (fl. 1327-1347), chronicler. [See More.]
THOMAS of Hatfield (d. 1381), bishop of Durham. [See Hatfield.]
THOMAS of Ashborne (fl. 1382), theological controversialist, was a native of Ashborne in Derbyshire, and became an Austin friar there. He went to Oxford and took the degree of master in theology. In 1374, at the council of Westminster, he argued against paying tribute to Gregory XI. In 1382, at the council of London, he helped to draft the twenty-four conclusions against Wyclif's doctrines on the sacrament. The titles are given by Bale of many controversial writings not known to be extant.
A contemporary Thomas Asheburne (fl. 1384), poet, was a scholar of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, where his expenses for one year, 11l. 4s. 1d., were paid by Lord De La Warr to Dr. John Kyme or Kynne, who was master from 1379 to 1389. Subsequently he became a Carmelite of Northampton, and wrote a long English theological poem formerly in the Cottonian MS. Vitell. f. xiii. 1, which has been burnt. In Cott. App. vii. a version of Richard Rolle's ‘Pricke of Conscience’ is ascribed in a later hand to Asheburne. It is preceded by a short allegorical English poem, beginning
[Lyst you] all gret and smale
I shall yow tell a lytell tale,
which may be Asheburne's work (Tanner, Bibl. Brit.; Sir F. Madden's and other notes in Cott. App. vii.; Cambridge Antiq. Soc. Communications, xxxix. 401).
[Eulog. Historiarum, iii. 337 sq.; Shirley's Fascic. Zizan. p. 286.]
THOMAS of Newmarket (fl. 1410?), arithmetician, graduated M.A. at Cambridge, and wrote a ‘Commentum in Computum Ecclesiasticum Dionysii’ (Exigui), which is in Digby MS. 81, f. 35, and in Peterhouse MS. 189. His ‘Commentum in Carmen Alexandri de Villa Dei de Algorismo’ is in Digby MS. 81, f. 11. A copy was formerly at Corpus College, Cambridge (Misc. Communications, pt. i. No. 3, Cambridge Antiq. Soc. publications, 4to ser.). The ‘Compotus Manualis’ in Digby MS. 81, f. 8, is perhaps also his, and the treatises ‘de Sphæra’ and ‘de Quadrante’ in the Peterhouse manuscript may be by him. Bale confuses his works with those of Thomas Merke [q. v.], bishop of Carlisle.
[Tanner's Bibl. Brit.; Bale's Script. Brit. vii. 60; Cat. of Digby Manuscripts.]
THOMAS Netter or Walden (d. 1430), Carmelite. [See Netter.]
THOMAS the Bastard (d. 1471). [See Fauconberg, Thomas.]
THOMAS of St. Gregory (1564-1644), Benedictine monk. [See Hill, Thomas.]
THOMAS ab IEUAN ap RHYS (d. 1617?), Welsh bard, was, according to the traditional account, the son of Ieuan ap Rhys Brydydd of Glamorgan. In a stanza popularly attributed to him he makes the incredible statement that in January 1604 he
