Michael Brisley d.1593

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Michael BRISLEY d.1593

Biographical Note

Scholarship Trinity Hall, Cambridge 1583, LLB 1588 and fellow 1590.

Books

Brisley's probate inventory includes over 50 books, valued at £8 5s 0d (from a total estate valued at £19 4s 10d). The books are mostly in Latin, with some French, Italian, Hebrew and Spanish. They are predominantly legal in nature, with some lexicography, theology, geography and other subjects. The full inventory is edited as Leedham-Green no.172 (see full citation below).

Sources

  • Leedham-Green, E. S., Books in Cambridge inventories, Cambridge, 1986, no.172/p.526-528.
  • Venn, J. and J. A., Alumni Cantabrigienses, Cambridge, 1922.