Charles Benson d.1593
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Charles BENSON d.1593
Biographical Note
BA Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge 1590/1.
Books
Benson's probate inventory includes over 50 books, valued at £3 19s 5d (from a total estate valued at £37 9s 0.1/2d). The books are mostly in Latin, with some Greek and English. The books cover a mixture of rhetoric, philosophy and theology, with some law and other subjects. The full inventory is edited as Leedham-Green no.171 (see full citation below).
Sources
- Leedham-Green, E. S., Books in Cambridge inventories, Cambridge, 1986, no.171/p.524-526.
- Venn, J. and J. A., Alumni Cantabrigienses, Cambridge, 1922.