[1][2][3] Some published editions of the work bear the author's name as "Alexander Anglus" ("Alexander the Englishman"), but he is further identified in a 1496 edition which states that the work was compiled "a cuiusdam fabri lignarii filio" -- "by a certain son of a worker of wood," i.e., a carpenter's son.
[4] This identifier also states that the work was begun in 1429, which rules out authorship by Alexander of Hales (ca.
Alexander Carpenter authored other works, termed Homiliae eruditae ("Learned Sermons"), but they are not at present known.
[5] A copy of Destructorium viciorum was donated by William Smarte to the Town Library of Ipswich.
In 1630 this found to be missing and John Allen, the minister at St Mary Quay replaced it.