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Title
Date(s)
- 1957 (Accumulation)
- 1632 (Publication)
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Extent and medium
4to, 1 volume
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Name of creator
Biographical history
FLETCHER, GILES, younger son of Giles Fletcher LLD, ecclesiastical lawyer, Remembrancer City of London, and sometime Ambassador to Russia, and Joan, dau. of Thomas Sheafe, Cranbrook, Kent; b.; at school under Ireland (Fuller, Worthies, 1840 edn., ii, 381); Trinity Coll. Cambridge, matr. Mich. 1601, scholar 12 Apr 1605; BA 1605/6; MA 1609; BD 1619; Minor Fellow, Trinity Coll., 17 Sep 1608 - c. 1618, Reader in Greek Grammar 1615, in Greek Language 1618; ordained deacon 18 Sep 1613, priest 19 Sep 1613 (both Peterborough); Rector of Helmingham, Suffolk 1617; Rector of Alderton, Suffolk; “his clownish and low-parted parishioners (having nothing but their shoes high about them) valued not their pastor according to his worth, which disposed him to melancholy, and hastened his dissolution ” (Fuller, loc. cit. ); author, Christ’s Victorie, a Triumph in Heaven and Earth over and after Death, 1610, and other poems; m. Anne --- (afterwards wife of John Ramsey); d. 1623. DNB.
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Conditions governing access
Access to rare books is granted to bona-fide researchers, by prior appointment, in cases where the item in unavailable at another UK repository.
Conditions governing reproduction
A reprographics service is available to researchers subject to the access restrictions outlined above. Copying will not be undertaken if there is any risk of damage to the item. Copies are supplied in accordance with Westminster School's Policy on Archive and Heritage Collections, and under provisions of any relevant copyright legislation. Permission to reproduce images of items in the custody of Westminster School must be sought from its Governing Body.
Language of material
- English
Script of material
- Latin
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Modern calf
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- Westminster School (Accumulator)
- Greene, Godfrey George Roundell, 1888-1956 (Accumulator)
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Status
Final
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Partial
Language(s)
- English
Script(s)
- Latin