John Pitts

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John Pitts (1560-1616) was a Catholic scholar and writer.

[edit] 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 Ingolstadt

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 on 17th October 1616.

[edit] 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

[edit] References

• Edwin Burton (2005). John Pitts. The Catholic Encyclopedia. Retrieved on 2006-05-21.