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John THEYER 1597-1673

Biographical Note

Lawyer and antiquary.

Books

His library, including ca.800 manuscripts, was sold after his death to Robert Scot, who in turn sold it to the Royal Library (hence many manuscripts are now in the British Library). List of his manuscripts in BL ms.Royal App.70. Listed in Edward Bernard's catalogi manuscriptorum, 1697, as owning 312 manuscripts.

Sources

  • Fell-Smith, Charlotte, and Robert J. Haines. "Theyer, John (bap. 1598, d. 1673), antiquary." Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
  • James, M. R. The history of Lambeth Palace Library, Transactions of the Cambridge Bibliographical Society, 3 (1959) 1-31.