Men of Kent and Kentishmen/Thomas Haslewood
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Thomas Haslewood,
HISTORIAN,
Was a native of Kent, and a Canon of the Abbey of Leeds in the reign of Edward II. Fuller says "he was an excellent scholar and a fortunate schoolmaster to teach others." But "towards his old age," says another writer, "he took to reading and writing history, for which reason William Botoner afterwards gave him a place among his famous historians, and not undeservedly, for it appears he published many things, and chiefly that work which he entitles "A Compendious Chronicle." He died about 1321.
[See "Fuller's Worthies."]