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Trefry's probate inventory, transcribed and edited as PLRE 158, lists ca.45 books. The contents are largely typical for their inclusion of [[subject::theology]], [[subject::rhetoric]], [[subject::medicine]], [[subject::law]] and standard academic texts of the period, largely in [[language::Latin]], but he also owned a copy of Ben Jonson's ''Sejanus'', and Carew's ''Survey of Cornwall''.
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Trefry's probate inventory, transcribed and edited as PLRE 158, lists ca.45 books. The contents are largely typical for their inclusion of [[subject::theology]], [[subject::rhetoric]], [[subject::medicine]], [[subject::law]] and standard academic texts of the period, largely in [[language::Latin]], but he also owned a copy of [[crossreference::Ben Jonson]]'s ''Sejanus'', and Carew's ''Survey of Cornwall''.
  
 
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Abel TREFRY 1577-1610

Biographical Note

Of Trefry, Cornwall. BA St Alban's 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.