Randolph Davenport d.1605
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Randolph DAVENPORT d.1605
Biographical Note
BA Trinity College, Cambridge 1581/2, MA 1585, fellow of Queens' College and proceeded BD there 1593. Rector of Barton Mills, Suffolk 1592 to 1604, and Toppesfield, Essex 1604 to 1605.
Books
Davenport's probate inventory includes over 60 books, valued at £20 18s 6d (from a total estate valued at £81 12s 6d). The books are mostly in Latin, with some Greek, with a predominance of theology alongside some lexicography and other subjects. The full inventory is edited as Leedham-Green no.180 (see full citation below).
Sources
- Leedham-Green, E. S., Books in Cambridge inventories, Cambridge, 1986, no.180/p.550-552.
- Venn, J. and J. A., Alumni Cantabrigienses, Cambridge, 1922.