William Mydson d.1579
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William MYDSON or MIDSON d.1579
Biographical Note
BA Trinity College, Cambridge 1575/6, MA Pembroke College 1579 and ordained deacon in the same year.
Books
Mydson's probate inventory includes over 20 books, valued at 18s 9d (from a total estate valued at £4 1s 9d). The books are mostly in Latin, with some Hebrew, Greek and English ones, with a variety of subjects covered, including theology, rhetoric, lexicography and mathematics. The full inventory is edited as Leedham-Green no.144 (see full citation below).
Sources
- Leedham-Green, E. S., Books in Cambridge inventories, Cambridge, 1986, no.144/p.342-343.
- Venn, J. and J. A., Alumni Cantabrigienses, Cambridge, 1922.