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====Biographical Note====
 
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Civil [[occupation::lawyer]] and [[occupation::judge]].   
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Born in [[location::West Meon, Hampshire]], son of [[family::Maurice Meyrick]], [[occupation::registrar]] of the [[organisations::University of Oxford]]. [[occupation::Fellow of New College, Oxford]], BCL 1621, DCL 1627. He was an [[occupation::advocate]] in [[organisations::Doctors' Commons]] from 1628, and became [[occupation::judge]] at the [[organistaions::Prerogative Court of Canterbury]] in 1641. Ejected in 1644, he was reinstated in 1660, and knighted in 1661.   
  
 
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130 books were [[seized::seized]] from him by the [[organisations::London Committee for Sequestration]] in 1643.
 
130 books were [[seized::seized]] from him by the [[organisations::London Committee for Sequestration]] in 1643.
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None of Meyrick's books have been identified.
  
 
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*Handley, Stuart. [https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/18645 "Meyrick, Sir William (1595/6–1669), civil lawyer and judge."] ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography''.   
 
*Handley, Stuart. [https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/18645 "Meyrick, Sir William (1595/6–1669), civil lawyer and judge."] ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography''.   
*Roy, I. & D. Reinhart, Oxford and the Civil Wars, ch 14 in N. Tyacke (ed), ''The History of the University of Oxford'', vol IV, Oxford, 1997.
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*Roy, I. The libraries of Edward, 2nd Viscount Conway, and others, ''Bulletin of the Institute of Historical Research'' 43 (1968), 35-46.
 
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Sir William MEYRICK 1595/6-1669

Biographical Note

Born in West Meon, Hampshire, son of Maurice Meyrick, registrar of the University of Oxford. Fellow of New College, Oxford, BCL 1621, DCL 1627. He was an advocate in Doctors' Commons from 1628, and became judge at the Prerogative Court of Canterbury in 1641. Ejected in 1644, he was reinstated in 1660, and knighted in 1661.

Books

130 books were seized from him by the London Committee for Sequestration in 1643.

Characteristic Markings

None of Meyrick's books have been identified.

Sources