JOHN COLTON
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Colton also ordered the Abbot to have no further mistresses. There was a basic concern about and prejudice against the Irish for their relatively promiscuous norms regarding sex. See {639438}.
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John Colton (c. 1320 – 1404) was a leading English-born academic, statesman and cleric of the fourteenth century. He was the first Master of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. He spent much of his career in Ireland, where he held the offices of Treasurer of Ireland, Lord Chancellor of Ireland and Archbishop of Armagh. He is chiefly remembered today for The Visitation of Derry (1397), which he either wrote or commissioned.
