Camb.
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—Reformer and divine, s. of a Leicestershire yeoman, went to Camb. in 1500, and became Fellow of Clare Hall.
From A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by Cousin, John W. (John William)
Camb.: bookcases at, 54; new cases in library, 285 Endowment of libraries: at Corbie, 79; S. Martin des Champs, ibid.;
From The Care of Books by Clark, John Willis
—Journalist and pamphleteer, youngest s. of a Norfolk baronet, was probably at Camb., and in 1638 took arms for the King.
From A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by Cousin, John W. (John William)
Camb., was made, in 1673, Bishop of Chester.
From A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by Cousin, John W. (John William)
Camb., read a paper on Balaustion’s Adventure, which he described as “a beautiful misrepresentation of the original.”
From The Browning Cyclop?dia A Guide to the Study of the Works of Robert Browning by Berdoe, Edward
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