text: However , writing in 1700 , the English antiquarian Thomas Hearne claims Wright was born in Shoe Lane , London and , after an adolescent conversion to Roman Catholicism , was taken to Scotland by a priest .
simplified: But in 1700 , Thomas Hearne claimed that Wright was born in Shoe Lane , London . He added that after Wright became a Roman Catholic when he was an adolescent , he was taken to Scotland by a priest .