Thomas Read Commonplace Book 1624

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Thomas Read Commonplace Book 1624

http://library.syr.edu/digital/guides/r/read_t.htm

Compiled ca. 1624 by Thomas Read, a student at Oxford University's Magdalen College. Entitled "a not-booke of divinity and honor military and civill." The author may have been that Thomas Read (1606-1669) who was Latin secretary to the crown for King Charles II.

1 volume (SC)

eng,

Syracuse University. Library. Special Collections Research Center

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Southwell, Robert, Saint, 1561?-1595

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Read, Thomas, fl. 1624

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Thomas Read was a student at Oxford University's Magdalen College in 1624. He may have been that Thomas Read (1606-1669) who was appointed Latin secretary to the crown in 1620; he was later (1649) ordained a Catholic priest and allowed to return to London following the Restoration of King Charles II in 1660. However, this cannot be established for certain. From the guide to the Thomas Read Commonplace Book, 1624, (Special Collections Research Center, Syracuse University ...