View source for Swithin Butterfield 1547-1611

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===[[name::Swithin]] / [[name::Swithune]] [[name::BUTTERFIELD]] [[date of birth::1547]]-[[date of death::1611]]===

====Biographical Note====
Of [[location::St Boltoph, Cambridge]]. Gentleman and author of [[book title::''The Principles of the True Christian religion'']] ([[date of publication::1590]]). Read widely and made extensive notes, which he compiled and had bound in six volumes.

====Books====
[[bequest::Bequeathed]] ca. 60 books to [[beneficiary::Pembroke College, Cambridge|Pembroke College]] there, including his own manuscripts compilations, and [[monetary value::£10]] to buy books.

====Sources====
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*Green, Ian. [https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/4227 "Butterfield, Swithune (bap. 1547, d. 1611), author."] ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography''. 
*Jayne, S. ''Library catalogues of the English renaissance''.  Godalming, 1983, 143.
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