Richard Maidstone
Richard Maidstone or Maydestone (died 1396) was an English Carmelite friar, theologian, and poet. Life Richard Maidstone, a native of Kent, was educated at Oxford, where he became bachelor and doctor of divinity. Maidstone was confessor to John of Gaunt, and a Carmelite friar of Aylesford, Kent, where he died on 1 June 1396. According to the Savile Catalogue, compiled in 1586, he was a fellow of Merton College, but, as Anthony à Wood noticed, this is extremely doubtful. He speaks of himself in his Psalms as He appears to have taken part in the controversy about evangelical poverty, and was prominent among the opponents of the followers of Wiclif. John Ashwardby was his special antagonist. Works Maidstone's extant works are: The Seven Penitential Psalms in English; in Rawlinson MS. A. 389, ff. 13–20, of the early fifteenth century, and in Digby MSS. 18, ff. 38–63, and 102, ff. 128–35, all in the Bodleian Library; incipit "To godes worshipe that us dere bouȝte". Protectorium Pauperis, incipit "Constituit eum super ecclesiam"; in MS. e Mus. 86, ff. 160–76, in the Bodleian Library. Determinationes; in MS. e Mus. 94 in the Bodleian there are by Maidstone two Determinations, of which the first