Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Percival, John

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PERCIVAL, JOHN (fl. 1550), Carthusian author, studied philosophy at both Oxford and Cambridge, and afterwards entered the Carthusian order. According to Theodore Petreius's ‘Bibliotheca Cartusiana’ (Cologne, 1609, p. 212), he became prior of the house of his order at Paris in 1550, and was held in much esteem for piety and erudition. He was author of ‘Compendium Divini Amoris,’ Paris, 1530, 8vo, and wrote a number of letters, which do not appear to have been printed.

Another John Percival (d. 1515?) took the degree of divinity at Oxford about 1501 (Wood, Fasti, i. 6), and became shortly afterwards forty-seventh provincial of the Franciscans in England. He is said to have been buried in Christ Church, Newgate, before 1515, and was succeeded as provincial by Henry Standish [q. v.]

[Wood's Athenæ Oxon. ed. Bliss, i. 6; Bale, De Scriptoribus, viii. 629; Pits, p. 685; Tanner's Bibl. Brit.; Berkenhout's Biogr. Lit. p. 132; Cooper's Athenæ Oxon. i.]