Abel Trefry 1577-1610
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Abel TREFRY 1577-1610
Biographical Note
Of Trefry, Cornwall. BA St Alban Hall, Oxford 1598, MA 1601, fellow of All Souls College.
Books
Trefry's probate inventory, transcribed and edited as PLRE 158, lists ca.45 books. The contents are largely typical for their inclusion of theology, rhetoric, medicine, law and standard academic texts of the period, largely in Latin, but he also owned a copy of Ben Jonson's Sejanus, and Carew's Survey of Cornwall.
Sources
- Black, J. and J. Cunico, Abel Trefry, in R. Fehrenbach and J. Black (eds), Private Libraries in Renaissance England 7 (2009), 103-112.
- Foster, J. Alumni Oxonienses: The Members of the University of Oxford 1500-1714/1715-1886, 8 vols, Oxford, 1891.