Richard Mote d.1592

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Richard Mote d.1592

Biographical Note

BA St John's College, Cambridge 1575/6, MA 1579, fellow 1580/1, and BD 1586.

Books

Mote's probate inventory includes over 500 books, valued at £31 14s 9d (from a total estate valued at £143 5s 9.1/2d). The books are mostly in Latin, with some English, Hebrew and Greek, with a predominance of theology alongside some rhetoric, history, philosophy and other subjects. The full inventory is edited as Leedham-Green no.169 (see full citation below).

Sources

  • Leedham-Green, E. S., Books in Cambridge inventories, Cambridge, 1986, no.169/p.508-522.
  • Venn, J. and J. A., Alumni Cantabrigienses, Cambridge, 1922.