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  • He is not mentioned by Leland, but Bale calls him "insignis sui temporis rhetor ac poeta;" and states further, that in the city of Norwich, "non sine magno auditorum fructu, bonas artes ingenue profitebatur."

    Notes and Queries, Number 75, April 5, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. Various

  • 'Haic qnoqoe editioni nulla eft adjunfU loci, anni, typo« graphi nota. £am tamen Mediolani prodiifle haod dubium tSt, cilm cetera Puteolani opera in hac nrbe excufa iinty in qua ora - toriam artem magna cum lande profitebatur.

    C. Cornelii Taciti opera omnia 1790

  • Antiqux hiftoriz Juba profitebatur accepiffe fe cap.

    De veritate religionis christianæ Hugo Grotius, Jean Le Clerc, 1657-1736 1772

  • Jam cnini ingens imperii romatii pars Chriftianam religioncnt palam profitebatur: ecclefiae ubique conditac; epi - fcopi miniftrique facrorum publici; libri facri omni - bus, quorum intererat) noti; apoIogiaC) totque pa - trum volumina edita; concilia celebrata; ipfaque reli - gio publlco imperatorum decreto in imperio romano rccepta atque ftabilita.

    Fragmenta patrum Graecorum Friedrich Münter 1788

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