This survives in four versions, and is an apologia for his hermit lifestyle, making use of the pastoral manual of a fellow Yorkshireman, William of Pagula.
Pagula was probably born near Paull in Yorkshire, and after being confirmed as the parish priest of Winkfield on 5 March 1314 he was ordained on 1 June by Walter Reynolds at Canterbury Cathedral.
By many of the early modern authors, William of St Paul is confused with William Pagham of Hanborough, or William Paull the canonist who wrote Oculus sacerdotis.
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