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Godfrey, surnamed of Cornwall, was about that time a cunning
Schoole-man, and Diuinitie Reader in Paris.
[1342] William de Grenefild, from the Deanry of Chichester,
stepped to the Chauncellorship of England, and Archbishoprick of York,
under K. E. the first.
In Ed, the seconds daies, one Geffrey of Cornwall, is remembred
for a writer.
Iohn Treuisa, a Cornishman, liued in R. the 2. raigne, & translated
diuers books into English.
King Henry the fift not vnmindfull of the ciuiller Arts amongst his
Martiall exployts, founded an Vniversitie at Caen in Normandie,
& appointed Michael Tregury of Cornwall, for his rare gifts in
learning, to bee Gouernour thereof.
In Henry the sixts time, Iohn Skewish compiled certaine abbridgements
of Chronicles, and the warres of Troy.
King Henry the 7. promoted Iohn Arundel for his learning, to the
sea of Excester.
Neither is Thomas Triuet to be forgotten, as a writer, [60]
though he haue grauen his memory in a fairer letter, by building the
costly bridge at Bridge-water, of which sometimes he was Lord.


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