Richard Baker ca.1568-1645
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Sir Richard BAKER ca.1568-1645
Biographical Note
Author, historian, MP; of Highgate, but reduced to poverty and life in the Fleet prison as a debtor.
Books
His library was bought for £500 in the 1620s by John Williams, and given to Westminster Abbey.
Sources
- Martin, G. H. "Baker, Sir Richard (c. 1568–1645), religious writer and historian." Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
- Robinson, J. A. & M. R. James, The manuscripts of Westminster Abbey, 1908, 18.