John Spelman 1594-1643

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Sir John SPELMAN 1594-1643

Biographical Note

Born in Hunstanton, Norfolk, and son of Sir Henry Spelman.

admitted at Gray's Inn on 16 February 1608 and entered Trinity College, Cambridge, the following year.

MP for the City of Worcester

He also published, from manuscripts in his father's library, Psalterium Davidis Latino-Saxonicum vetus (1640).

he published four tracts which eloquently express moderate royalist political and religious attitudes, and which constitute his principal claim to fame.

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