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Sir William MEYRICK 1595/6-1669
Biographical Note
Born in West Meon, Hampshire, son of Maurice Meyrick, registrar of the University of Oxford. Fellow of New College, Oxford, BCL 1621, DCL 1627. He was an advocate in Doctors' Commons from 1628, and became judge at the Prerogative Court of Canterbury in 1641. Ejected in 1644, he was reinstated in 1660, and knighted in 1661.
Books
130 books were seized from him by the London Committee for Sequestration in 1643.
Characteristic Markings
None of Meyrick's books have been identified.
Sources
- Handley, Stuart. "Meyrick, Sir William (1595/6–1669), civil lawyer and judge." Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
- Roy, I. The libraries of Edward, 2nd Viscount Conway, and others, Bulletin of the Institute of Historical Research 43 (1968), 35-46.