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DNB

 * Article title: Acton, Ralph
 * Author: Archer, Thomas Andrew
 * LEAD: ACTON, RALPH (14th cent.), an English theologian and philosopher, is assigned by Leland and his followers to the first half of the fourteenth century.
 * LEAD: ACTON, RALPH (14th cent.), an English theologian and philosopher, is assigned by Leland and his followers to the first half of the fourteenth century.
 * LEAD: ACTON, RALPH (14th cent.), an English theologian and philosopher, is assigned by Leland and his followers to the first half of the fourteenth century.

Works

 * Homiliæ in quatuor Evangelia
 * Commentarii in Epistolas Paulinas
 * Illustrationes in Petrum Langobardum
 * other works of a 'similar kind'
 * Two manuscripts of this author are still preserved in the library of Lincoln College, Oxford—the one written in an early fifteenth-century hand; the other the gift of Robert Flemming, a near kinsman of Richard Flemming, the founder of this college (1427)
 * Other manuscripts of Acton's works are said by Tanner to be in the Bodleian library and that of Peterhouse, Cambridge.