Camb.
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Camb.: library statute, 139; library fittings, 160; bookcases at, 254 Peñiscola: library of Boniface XIII.,
From The Care of Books by Clark, John Willis
—Scholar, s. of an apothecary at Harrow, where and at Camb. he was ed.
From A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by Cousin, John W. (John William)
—Divine, s. of a grocer at Kingscliffe, Northamptonshire, was ed. at Camb., and in 1727 became tutor to the f. of Edward Gibbon, the historian.
From A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by Cousin, John W. (John William)
Camb.: books chained 1523, 264 Corpus Christi Coll.,
From The Care of Books by Clark, John Willis
—Theologian and controversialist, ed. at Camb., entered the Church, and became Bishop successively of Bangor, Hereford, Salisbury, and Winchester.
From A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by Cousin, John W. (John William)
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