View source for Nicholas Saunderson 1593-1640

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===[[name::Nicholas]] [[name::SAUNDERSON]], 2nd [[personal title::Viscount Castleton]]  [[date of Birth::1593]]-[[date of Death::1640]]===

====Biographical Note====
Son of [[family::Nicholas Saunderson]], [[location::Lincolnshire]] [[occupation::MP]] and landowner, who was created [[personal title::Viscount Castleton]] (in the peerage of [[location::Ireland]]) in 1627.  Matriculated [[education::Queen’s College, Oxford]] 1610, but did not graduate; admitted at [[organisations::Lincoln’s Inn]] 1613.  Inherited the viscountcy when his father died in [[date of Death::1631]].

====Books==== 
Saunderson’s interest in books is known only from the survival of a couple of books with his armorial stamp.  The extent of his collection is not known.  Examples: CUL Syn.6.63.32.

====Characteristic Markings==== 
The Cambridge University Library book has the armorial in gilt on the covers of an otherwise plain calf binding of the period, with a partially eradicated inscription “Castleton pret[?] 6s 1637/[???]”

====Sources==== 
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*[http://armorial.library.utoronto.ca/stamp-owners/SAN002 British Armorial Bindings]. 
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