John Williams 1582-1650
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John WILLIAMS 1582-1650
Biographical Note
Archbishop of York.
Books
Purchased a library of ca.1700 books to give to Westminster Abbey, 1623; funded the rebuilding of the Library at St John’s College, Cambridge in the 1620s, and gave money and books there. Various manuscript lists of his books and donations at St John’s.
Sources
- British Armorial Bindings.
- Hoare (gen.ed.), P. The Cambridge history of libraries in Britain and Ireland. 3 vols. Cambridge, 2006.
- Jayne, S. Library catalogues of the English renaissance. Godalming, 1983.
- Linehan, P. (ed), St. John’s College, Cambridge: a history, Woodbridge, 2011, 103-6.
- Quintrell, Brian. "Williams, John (1582–1650), archbishop of York." Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.