Martin Parkinson d.1569

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Martin PARKINSON ca.1538-1569

Biographical Note

BA Trinity College, Cambridge 1559, fellow from 1560, MA 1562, BD 1569. He was appointed a university preacher in 1566 and Archdeacon of the East Riding of Yorkshire in 1568.

Books

Parkinson's probate inventory includes over 215 books, valued at £33 17s 4d (from a total estate valued at £48 1s 5d). The books are mostly in Latin, with some Greek and Hebrew, with a predominance of theology alongside some classics, law, mathematics and other subjects. He bequeathed a chosen book to 18 of his colleagues, and left the residue of his estate to his siblings. The full inventory is edited as Leedham-Green no.132 (see full citation below).

Sources

  • Leedham-Green, E. S., Books in Cambridge inventories, Cambridge, 1986, no.132/p.305-9.
  • Venn, J. and J. A., Alumni Cantabrigienses, Cambridge, 1922.