Edmund Rudd d. 1577

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Edmund RUDD d. 1577

Biographical Note

BA Clare College, Cambridge 1572/3, and he was likely a fellow when he graduated MA in 1576.

Books

Rudd's probate inventory includes over 80 books, valued at £6 7s 5d (from a total estate valued at £21 5s 1d). The books are mostly in Latin, with some Greek, Hebrew and English ones, predominantly covering theology, philosophy, law and rhetoric alongside some cosmography and arithmetic. The full inventory is edited as Leedham-Green no.140 (see full citation below).

Sources

  • Leedham-Green, E. S., Books in Cambridge inventories, Cambridge, 1986, no.140/p.322-325.
  • Venn, J. and J. A., Alumni Cantabrigienses, Cambridge, 1922.