Poeta Anglicus

I cannot answer J.B.'s Queries; but I have fallen upon a *cross scent*, which perchance may lead to their discovery. 1. Ioannes Pitseus, *de Scriptor. ad ann.* 1250, (*Relat. Histor. de Rebus Anglicis*, ed. Par. 1619, p. 322.), gives the following account "de Michaele Blaunpaino:"— "Michael Blaunpainus, vulgo *Magister* cognominatus, natione Anglus, patria Cornubiensis, ... missus Oxonium, deinde Parisios, ... præ cæteris se dedidit elegantiæ linguæ Latinæ, fuitque inter præcipuos sui temporis *poetus* per Angliam potissimum et Galliam numeratus. Hunc subinde citat Textor in Cornucopia sub nom…