CAPGRAVE, JOHN. - Scholastic theologian and Augustinian hagiographer, born at Lynn on 21 April 1393 and died on 12 August 1464.
His scholastic works remain unpublished; printed works include: *The Chronicle of England* (London 1858); *De illustribus Henrici* (ibid. 1858); *The Life of St. Katharine of Alexandria* (ibid. 1893); *Nova legenda Angliae* (Oxford 1901); *Lives of St. Augustine...* (London 1910); *Ye Solace of Pilgrims, a Description of Rome* (ibid. 1911).
BIBL.: J. F. Ossinger, *Bibliotheca August.*, Ingelstadt 1768, pp. 220-221; Ch. Gross, *The Sources and Literature of English Hist.*, London 1900, p. 564; Anon., in *Encycl. Britan.*, IV (1909), p. 792.