View source for Samuel Hawes ca.1650-1722

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===[[name::Samuel]] [[name::HAWES]] ca.[[date of birth::1650]]-[[date of death::1722]]===

====Biographical Note====
BA [[education::Trinity College, Oxford]] 1673, MA 1678. [[occupation::deacon|Deacon]] of [[organisations::Christchurch College, Oxford|Christchurch College]].

====Books====
In his will, Hawes requests that 'all my books and household stuff... [are] to be sold as soon as  conveniently may be', and his library was sold by [[retail sale::retail sale]] in [[location of sale::London]] beginning [[date of sale::20 November 1722]]. Advertisements in the ''Post Boy'' and other newspapers describe his books as being 'in [[language::Greek]], [[language::Latin]], [[language::English]], [[language::French]], [[language::Italian]], and [[language::Spanish]]. Consisting of a very curious Collection of Books, relating to the [[subject::history|History]] and Antiquities of Great Britain and Ireland, [[subject::architecture|Architecture]], [[subject::gardening|Husbandry]], [[subject::economics|Trade]], [[subject::geography|Voyages]], [[subject::literature|Poetry]], and [[subject::biography|Lives of the most eminent Persons]]. Also a very large Collection of the Greek and Latin Fathers, historians, [[subject::lexicography|Lexicographers]], &c... and most of the [[subject::classics|Classicks]]'. The medical books of an unnamed 'eminent Physician' were also listed in the sale.

====Sources====
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*Alston, R. C. ''Inventory of sale catalogues ... 1676-1800'', St Philip, 2010.
*[https://theclergydatabase.org.uk CCEd Clergy of the Church of England Database].
*[https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/D548040 ''Will of Samuel Hawes, Clergyman of the Reformed Church of England of Eastwell , Kent''], The National Archives PROB 11/587/242.
*''Bibliotheca Reverendi Doctiq; viri Samuelis Hawes, nuper defuncti. Being a catalogue of the library of the late Reverend and learned Mr. Samuel Hawes'', [London, 1722], ESTC T14273.

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