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John Whethamstede (died 20 January 1465) was an English abbot and one of the leading literary figures in fifteenth-century England.

Life

He was a son of Hugh and Margaret Bostock, and was born at Wheathampstead in Hertfordshire, owing his name, the Latin form of which is Frumentarius, to this circumstance.

After early schooling at the Abbey

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