and Latin tongues sufficiently instructed, he was then, for the study of the law of the Realm, put to an Inn of Chancery, called New Inn: where for his time he very well prospered, and from thence was admitted to Lincoln's Inn, with very small allowance[1], continuing there his study until he was made and accounted a worthy utter Barrister. After this, to his great commendations, he read for a good space, a public lecture of St. Augustine[2] de Civitate Dei, in the church of St. Lawrence in the old Jury, whereunto there resorted Doctor[3] Grocyn an excellent cunning man, and all the chief learned of the city of London. Then was he made Reader of Furnival's Inn, so remaining by the space of three years and more. After which time he gave himself to de-
- ↑ Ut nec ad reficiendos calceos, nisi a patre peteret Pecuniam haberet.—Erasm. Epist. "There his whole mind was set on his book. For his allowance, his father kept him very short, suffering him scarcely to have so much money in his own custody as would pay for the mending of his apparel; which course he would often speak of with praise in his riper years."—More's Life of More.
- ↑ Augustini libros de Civitate Dei publice professus est; adhuc pene adolescens auditorio frequenti, nec puduit, nec pœnituit sacerdotes ac senes a juvene profano sacra discere.—Erasmi Epist.
- ↑ William Grocyn born in the City of Bristol, and afterwards, about 1504, was made Master of the College of Alhallows at Maidstone in Kent where he died in the beginning of the Year 1522. Among other things he wrote a Tract in Latin against Wicklif's Wicket.—Wood, Athenæ, Vol. I. col. 13, 14.
