THOMAS DOCKING. - Franciscan theologian, after 1269. Surnamed Good, he took his name from his native village in Norfolk. Between 1260 and 1265 he taught theology at the University of Oxford, being the seventh master of his Order.
He was primarily an exegete; several manuscripts in English libraries preserve his commentaries on Deuteronomy, Isaiah, the Epistles of St Paul (except Romans), Quaestiones on St Luke and Job. He frequently applies moral lessons and shows a good knowledge of the natural sciences.
BIBL.: J. Leland, Commentarii de scriptoribus Britannicis, Oxford 1709, p. 314 sq.; A. G. Little, The Franciscan School of Oxford in the thirteenth Century, in Archiv. Francisc. historie., 19 (1926), pp. 846-50; id., Thomas D. and his relation to Roger Bacon, in Essays in history. presented to R. Lane Poole, Oxford 1927, pp. 301-31. Arduino Kleinhans