Aaron Testas ca.1640-1726
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Aaron TESTAS ca.1640-1726
Biographical Note
In his will, originally written in French in 1723, Testas describes himself as the "Minister of the Ancient French Church in Threadneedle Street in London living in Hand Ally in the parish of St Buttolphs without Bishopsgate aged eighty three years and a half and upwards". On the second page he describes himself as "refugied".
Books
Testas makes no mention of his library in his will, and his books were sold alongside those of an (as yet unidentified) Thomas Thorowgood by retail sale in London beginning 25 November 1726. The sale was advertised in the Daily Journal and the Daily Courant.
Sources
- Will of Aaron Testas, Minister of the Ancient French Church of Saint Botolph without..., The National Archives PROB 11/608/58.
- Alston, R. C., Inventory of sale catalogues ... 1676-1800, St Philip, 2010.
- Librorum ex bibliothecis Aaronis Testas, D.D. & Tho. Thorowgood armigeri, catalogus: or, a catalogue of the libraries of the Reverend and learned Dr. Aaron Testas, Minister of the French-Church in Spittle-Fields, and Tho. Thorowgood Esq, [London, 1726] ESTC T73283.