Richard Colchester 1600-1643

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Richard COLCHESTER 1600-1643

Biographical Note

Of Gray’s Inn (barrister 1632) and Westbury, Gloucestershire, one of the Six Clerks in Chancery (1632-43). Awarded the degree of DCL by Oxford University in 1643

Books

Colchester's surviving account book for the late 1630s/early 1640s (Gloucester Record Office, D36 A1) records the purchase and binding of a number of books (information from Giles Colchester).

Sources

  • Foster, J. Alumni Oxonienses, Oxford, 1891.