John Pitts (Catholic scholar)

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Name John Pitts Role Writer		Died October 17, 1616
Education Winchester College, English College, Rome, New College, Oxford

John Pitts (also Pits, Pitseus) (1560 – 17 October 1616) was an English Roman Catholic scholar and writer.

Life

Pitts was born in Alton, Hampshire in 1560 and attended Winchester College. From 1578 to 1580 he studied at New College, Oxford. In 1581 he was admitted to the English College, Rome.

In 1588 he was ordained priest, and became professor at the English College, Reims. He then graduated Lic.D. at Trier (1592) and D.D. at Ingolstadt (1595). He 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 Düsseldorf in 1604

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