Item III/i/09 - A Project of a Descent upon France

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GB 2014 WS-01-GRE-III/i/09

Title

A Project of a Descent upon France

Date(s)

  • 1957 (Accumulation)
  • 1691 (Publication)

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4to, 1 volume

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Name of creator

(1625-1702)

Biographical history

LITTLETON, EDWARD, third son of Sir Adam Littleton, Bart., and Etheldreda, dau. of Sir Thomas Poyntz, North Ockenden, Essex; bap. Stoke St. Milborough, Shropshire 21 Dec 1625 (IGI); at school under Busby (Wood, Athenae Oxon., iv, 574); St. Mary Hall, Oxford, matr. 2 Apr 1641, aged 15; BA 1644; MA 1648 (incorp. Cambridge 1657); Fellow of All Souls Coll. Oxford 1647; Senior Proctor 1656; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 24 Apr 1649, called to bar 15 Nov 1664; went to Barbados as Secretary to Lord Willoughby of Parham 1666; acted as Judge, Barbados 1670-83; member of Assembly, Barbados 1674; agent for Barbados from return to London in 1683; author of several tracts, some published anonymously; m. 1669 Dorothy, widow of Edward Harrison, Barbados, and dau. of John Booth, Glossop, Derbs.; buried Greenwich, Kent 9 Feb 1701/2. DNB.

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Access to rare books is granted to bona-fide researchers, by prior appointment, in cases where the item in unavailable at another UK repository.

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  • English

Script of material

  • Latin

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WS-GRE-III/i/9

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GB 2014

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Status

Final

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Partial

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  • English

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  • Latin

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