John Pitts

John Pitts

"For the football player of the same name see John Pitts (football player)."

John Pitts (1560 – October 17 1616) was a Catholic scholar and writer.

Life

Pitts was born in Alton, Hampshire in 1560 and attended Winchester College.
* 1578 to 1580: educated in New College, Oxford
* 1581: admitted to the English College in Rome
* 1588: he was ordained Priest and became Professor at the English College, Reims
* 1592: Lic.D. at Trèves
* 1595: D.D. at IngolstadtHe became Canon at Verdun, then Confessor and Almoner to the Duchess of Cleves; after her death he became Dean of Liverdun. He died in Liverdun, Lorraine.

Work

* "Relationum Historicarum de rebus Angliæ" in four parts:
** "De Illustribus Angliæ Scriptoribus", published in Paris in 1619
** "De Regibus Angliæ"
** "De Episcopis Angliæ"
** "De Viris Apostolicis Angliæ": (the last three parts remained in manuscript in Liverdun)
* "Tractatus de legibus", published in Trier in 1592
* "Tractatus de beatitudine", published in Ingolstadt in 1595
* "Libri septem de peregrinatione" published in Dusseldorf in 1604

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