used by Francis Thynne. It was eventually edited and published by Sir Edward Bysshe from Sir Robert Cotton's manuscript, and from another belonging to Matthew Hale, both procured for Bysshe by John Selden: Bysshe's edition appeared in 1654, and was entitled Nicholai Vptoni de Studio Militari. References J. P. Cooper, Ideas of Gentility in Early Modern-England, Ch. 3 (pp. 43–77) in Land, Men and Beliefs: Studies in Early-Modern History (1983), edited by G. E. Aylmer and J. S. Morrill Notes Attribution 1400 births 1457 deaths 14th-century English Roman Catholic priests English writers British heraldists Alumni of Broadgates Hall, Oxford