View source for Walter Brown 1575/6-1613

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===[[name::Walter]] [[name::BROWN]] or [[name::BROWNE]] [[date of birth::1575;1576|1575/6]]-[[date of death::1613]]===

====Biographical Note====
Of [[location::Great Bookham, Surrey]]. BA and [[occupation::fellow]] of [[organisations::Corpus Christi College, Oxford]] 1595, MA 1598. [[occupation::rector|Rector]] of [[location::Cuddington, Oxfordshire]] 1611. He was accused of Roman Catholic leanings, a charge which was brought out at the trial of [[crossreference::William Laud 1573-1645|William Laud]], who knew him while at [[organisations::University of Oxford|Oxford]].

====Books====
Brown's probate inventory, transcribed and edited as ''Private Libraries in Renaissance England''
159, lists nearly 600 books, a substantial private library for an academic clergyman of this time. The ''PLRE'' editors note the strong holdings in [[subject::theology]] and [[subject::history]], as would be expected, alongside titles in [[subject::medicine]], [[subject::mathematics]], [[subject::astronomy]], [[subject::classics]], and [[subject::geography]], and [[subject::literature|literary]] texts in [[language::English]] and [[language::French]]. The imprint dates range throughout the 16th and early 17th centuries; it is possible, but not demonstrable, that Brown's library was partly inherited.

====Characteristic Markings====
None of Brown's books have been identified.

====Sources====
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*Black, J. Walter Brown, in R. Fehrenbach and J. Black (eds), ''Private Libraries in Renaissance England'' 7 (2009), 113-209.
*Foster, J. ''Alumni Oxonienses'', Oxford, 1891. 
*Philip, I. G. and P. Morgan, ‘Libraries, books and printing’ in N. Tyacke (ed), ''The history of the University of Oxford: vol. IV'', Oxford, 1997, 659-685, p.684. 

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