William de Alton

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William de Alton (born 1307)^[1] was a Dominican friar from Alton, Hampshire, who lived during the reign of Edward II.^[2] He is known for writing The Universality of the Pollution of Mankind by Original Sin. This tract on original sin argues that in its polluting all of mankind^[2] it must also have thereby polluted the Virgin Mary, thus contradicting the doctrine of the Immaculate Conception.^[3]

References

↑ Curtis, William (1896). A Short History and Description of the Town of Alton: In the County of Southampton. Winchester: Warren and Son. ISBN 1-104-00986-2.{{cite book}}: ISBN / Date incompatibility (help)
1 2 Samuel Lewis, A Topographical Dictionary of England, S. Lewis & Co., 1811, p. 43
↑ The Universal magazine, Volume 7, pub. for J. Hinton, 1750

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[1] Curtis, William (1896). A Short History and Description of the Town of Alton: In the County of Southampton. Winchester: Warren and Son. ISBN 1-104-00986-2.{{cite book}}: ISBN / Date incompatibility (help)

[alt-2] 1 2 Samuel Lewis, A Topographical Dictionary of England, S. Lewis & Co., 1811, p. 43

[3] The Universal magazine, Volume 7, pub. for J. Hinton, 1750

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