1398 – 1466) was an English monk and ecclesiastical historian who documented the history and abbots of Westminster Abbey.
In 1444 the misbehavior of the abbot Kirton led to examination from outside "visitors," and they had Flete suspended from his position for a time.
[1] His major work was the four volume History of Westminster Abbey from its founding by, according to him, "King Lucius" in 184, to around 1386.
[1] In general, the history copies from other sources, including a lost Liber regius, Sulcard's Prologus de Construccione Westmonasterii,[2] charters, pipe rolls, papal letters, and other documents the abbey had in its possession.
[1] According to Barbara Harvey, the chief value of the history was in demonstrating how ecclesiastical historiography was moving away from a national interest toward a local and biographical one in the late Middle Ages.