Sir thomas bodley biography of william hill

  • Sir thomas bodley biography of william hill

    • Sir thomas bodley biography of william hill

  • Sir thomas bodley biography of william hill
  • 1. F. B. R. Troup, Sir Thomas Bodley’s Father and Kindred; DNB; CSP For.1584-5, p. 428; 1586-8, p. 636; 1588, pp. 333-4, 348.
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  • 2. Chamberlain Letters ed. McClure, i. 432; Leycester Corresp. (Cam. Soc. xxvii), 326; Neale, Commons, 219; D’Ewes, 334; Manningham Diary(Cam. Soc. xcix), pp. 63, 129.
  • 3. CSP Dom. 1601-3, pp. 2, 18; 1603-10, p. 124; HMC Hatfield, xii. 387; Chamberlain Letters, i. 36, 414, 417; PCC 37 Capell; C142/339/139.

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    Thomas Bodley

    English diplomat and scholar

    Sir Thomas Bodley (2 March – 28 January ) was an Englishdiplomat and scholar who founded the Bodleian Library in Oxford.

    Origins

    Thomas Bodley was born on 2 March , in the second-to-last year of the reign of King Henry VIII, in the city of Exeter in Devon. He was one of the seven sons[3] of John Bodley (d.

    1. F. B. R. Troup, Sir Thomas Bodley’s Father and Kindred; DNB; CSP For.1584-5, p. 428; 1586-8, p. 636; 1588, pp. 333-4, 348.

    15 Oct. )[4] of Exeter, a Protestant merchant who chose foreign exile rather than staying in England under the Roman Catholic government of Queen Mary (r.&#;–). He was thereby involved[5] in the publication of Sir Rowland Hill'sGeneva Bible.[6][7][8]

    John's father, also John Bodley, was a younger son of the gentry family of Bodley of Dunscombe,[9] near Crediton[10] in Devon.

    Thomas's mother was Joan Hone, a daughter and co-heiress of Robert Hone of Ottery St Mary, Devon.[11] Thomas's younger brother was Sir Josias Bodley, knighted i