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Breton, William

Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

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an English writer of the 14th century, was born in Wales. He was educated a Franciscan at Grimsby, Lincolnshire; was a great scholar, a deep divine, and a writer of many books, both in prose and verse, of which his masterpiece was An Exposition of all the Hard Words of the Bible; and such was the reputation of the book that in the controversy. between Standish, bishop of St. Asaph, and Erasmus, the former appeals to Breton's book about the interpretation of a place in Scripture. Breton died at Grimsby in 1356. See Fuller, Worthies of' England (ed. Nuttall), 3:500.

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McClintock, John. Strong, James. Entry for 'Breton, William'. Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​tce/​b/breton-william.html. Harper & Brothers. New York. 1870.
 
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