Philip Baston or Boston (died 1320?), was an

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. Baston was the brother of the poet

Robert Baston Robert Baston ( fl. 1300), was an English Carmelite friar and prior of the abbey of Scarborough. Early life Baston was born, according to Pitts, of an illustrious race, and not far from Nottingham, where Bale tells us he was buried. He seems ...

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"Baston, Philip (d. after 1327)"
''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', Oxford University Press, 2004 (Retrieved 14 March 2014) in which town he became a Carmelite

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. From Nottingham Philip Baston proceeded to

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, where, according to Pits, after long application to

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studies, he finally devoted himself to

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, in both of which pursuits he gained great fame. At the same time he did not altogether neglect work of a more popular nature, but used very frequently to hold forth to the people. Tanner quotes from the register of Oliver Sutton,

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from 1280 to 1300, an entry to the effect that a certain friar Phil. de Baston, of the Carmelite order, was ordained priest on 22 September 1296. He was confessor to

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by June 1318, a post he still held in 1327. Philip Baston died after 1327, and was buried in the Carmelite house in Nottingham. His biographers ascribe two works to his pen, the one being entitled ''Doctæ Conciones'', and the other a collection of letters.

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