John, called the Resolute Doctor, a learned monk, born towards the end of the 13th century, at Baconsthorp, a village in Norfolk. After spending the early part of his life in the convent of Blakeney, near Walsingham, he removed to Oxford, and from thence to Paris, where he obtained great reputation for his learning, and was esteemed the principal of the Averroists. In 1329 he returned to England, and was chosen twelfth provincial of the English Carmelites. In 1333 he was sent for to Rome, where, we are told, he first maintained the pope's sovereign authority in cases of divorce; but this opinion he is understood to have afterwards retracted. He died in London in 1346. He wrote, 1. Commentaria, seu Questiones super quatuor libros Sententiarum; and, 2. Compendium Legis Christi, et quodlibet; both of which passed through several editions.