View source for John Chamberlayne 1669-1723

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===[[name::John]] [[name::CHAMBERLAYNE]] [[date of birth::1669]]-[[date of death::1723]]===

====Biographical Note====
Son of [[crossreference::Edward Chamberlayne 1616-1703|Edward Chamberlayne]], writer. John was a [[occupation::translator]] and [[occupation::poet]]. Matriculated [[education::Trinity College, Oxford]] 1685, but left without a degree. 1688 embarked on study of modern languages at [[location::Leiden]]. Elected [[occupation::fellow]] of the [[organisations::Royal Society]] 1702.

====Books====
John's books were sold in [[location of sale::London]] by [[retail sale::retail sale]], along with those of his father, beginning [[date of sale::11 March 1724]]. Advertisements in the ''Daily Courant'' and other newspapers described the sale as "consisting of an extraordinary collection of books in most of the European (and several other) languages, especially of Bibles... dictionaries, lexicons, and grammars, historians English and foreign, Law... husbandry and trade, voyages and travels, divinity, lives, poetry, physics, mathematics, architecture, classicks, &c. Also manuscripts of several subjects, some written on vellum finely illuminated...". 

====Sources====
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*Alston, R. C., ''Inventory of sale catalogues ... 1676-1800'', St Philip, 2010.
*Gair, Reavley. [https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/5060 "Chamberlayne, John (1668/9–1723), translator and literary editor."] ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography''.
*''A catalogue of the libraries of Edward Chamberlayne, ... and of his son John Chamberlayne...'', [London, 1724] ESTC T28711.
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