John Prestwich 1607/8-1679

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John PRESTWICH d.1679

Biographical Note

Fellow of All Souls, Oxford.

Books

Gave books to the town of Manchester during his lifetime, and bequeathed “all my folios quartos and larger octavos bound up either in leather or parchment” to Manchester.

Sources

J. Foster, Alumni Oxonienses: The Members of the University of Oxford 1500-1714/1715-1886, 8 vols, Oxford, 1891; M. Perkin, A directory of the parochial libraries of the Church of England London, 2004, 245; R. Christie, The old church and school libraries of Lancashire, 1885, 9-19.

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