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RACSTER, JOHN, son of John Racster, Norfolk; b.; adm.; Min. Can. (aged 14) 1580; QS; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1584, adm. scholar 1585; BA 1588/9; MA 1592 (incorp. Oxford 9 Jul 1594); Minor Fellow, Trinity Coll. 4 Oct 1591, Major Fellow 11 Mar 1591/2 – c. 1597; ordained; Rector of Suckley, Worcs., from 1596; author, A Booke of the Seven Planets or Seven Wandering Motives of Wm. Alabaster’s Wit retrograded or removed, 1598, in answer to The Seven Motives for his Conversion by William Alabaster (qv); in the dedication of his book Racster writes “the same schoole bred us both, the same university nourced us both, the same colledge maintained us both, the same master preferred us both, the same roofe, nay the same bed, sometimes contained us both”; m.; d. 1640.
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International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) 2nd edition
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Prepared for import into AtoM by Westminster School Archive staff, 2019-2020
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Users should note that the information recorded here that is not to be found in the first two volumes of the Record of Old Westminsters and its first Supplement has been assembled from various published and manuscript sources by Hugh Edmund Pagan MA FSA, and all new resulting text is his copyright, © 2014.
The Record of Old Westminsters: A biographical list of all those who are known to have been educated at Westminster School from the earliest times to 1927, Volumes 1 & 2, compiled by G. F. Russell Barker and Alan H. Stenning, London, 1928.