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[[occupation::Lawyer]], [[occupation::MP]].   
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Born in [[place of birth::Buckinghamshire]].  LLB [[education::Trinity Hall, Cambridge]] 1633, LLD 1639; entered the [[organisations::Middle Temple]] 1641. [[occupation::Commissary]] of the archdeaconry of [[location::Suffolk]] 1637. He served in the royalist army and was knighted in 1645. He was based in [[location::Essex]] during the Interregnum, and at the Restoration received a number of appointments, including [[occupation::master in chancery]] and [[occupation::Admiralty judge]]. He was returned as [[occupation::MP]] for [[location::Maidstone]] in 1661 and was active in parliamentary debate. He was admitted to [[organisations::Doctors' Commons]] in 1661.   
  
 
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More than 86 books were [[seized::seized]] from his [[location::London]] house by the [[organisations::London Committee for Sequestration]] in 1643, and partly [[retail Sale::sold]].
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More than 86 books were [[seized::seized]] from his [[location::London]] house by the [[organisations::London Committee for Sequestration]] in 1643, and partly sold.
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====Characteristic Markings====
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None of Pierce's books have been identified.
  
 
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*Jones, N. G. [https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/70495 "Peirce, Sir Edmund (d. 1667), lawyer and politician."] ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography''.
 
*Jones, N. G. [https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/70495 "Peirce, Sir Edmund (d. 1667), lawyer and politician."] ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography''.
*Roy, I. & D. Reinhart, Oxford and the Civil Wars, ch 14 in N. Tyacke (ed), ''The History of the University of Oxford'', vol IV, Oxford, 1997.
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*Roy, I. The libraries of Edward, 2nd Viscount Conway, and others, ''Bulletin of the Institute of Historical Research'' 43 (1968), 35-46.
 
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Sir Edmund PIERCE or PEIRCE d.1667

Biographical Note

Born in Buckinghamshire. LLB Trinity Hall, Cambridge 1633, LLD 1639; entered the Middle Temple 1641. Commissary of the archdeaconry of Suffolk 1637. He served in the royalist army and was knighted in 1645. He was based in Essex during the Interregnum, and at the Restoration received a number of appointments, including master in chancery and Admiralty judge. He was returned as MP for Maidstone in 1661 and was active in parliamentary debate. He was admitted to Doctors' Commons in 1661.

Books

More than 86 books were seized from his London house by the London Committee for Sequestration in 1643, and partly sold.

Characteristic Markings

None of Pierce's books have been identified.

Sources