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Frater Martinus ( - )

Unidentified. Evidently a chronicler, identified by Ralph Thoresby as "Pænitentiarius Papæ." Other biography: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_of_Tours References in Documents:
Thoresby, Musaeum Thoresbyanum (1713) 13. Scala Mundi. Auctores ex quibus extrahitur, funt, 1. Brutus de gestis Britonum. 2. Venerabilis Beda de gestis Anglorum. 3. Willielmus Malmsburiensis de gestis Anglorum. 4. Will Pictavensis Cancellarius Parisiensis. 5. Frater Martinus Pænitentiarius Papæ. 6. Johannes de Porta. 7. Gildas. That this is a Book of great Value appears by the Character given it by a Right Reverend Author, who all will allow to be a most competent Judge, and who is pleased to mention it, with others of great Value referr'd to by Archbishop Usher, Mr. Selden, &c. (b)(b) Bishop of Carl, Hist. libr. I Vol. pag. 199.. Note, Tho' it ends many Years before the Reformation (viz. 12 H. 6.) yet in the Catalogue of Popes is inserted Johannes Papissa, with the same Hand as the rest of the Book.