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Sir John HEYDON 1588-1653
Biographical Note
Lieutenant general of the ordnance.
Books
More than 63 books, valued at £5 12s 4d, were seized from him by the London Committee for Sequestration in 1643, and sold. An inventory survives in the Committee's records in The National Archives.
Sources
- Priced list of delinquents' books sold, The National Archives SP 20/7.
- Porter, Stephen. "Heydon, Sir John (bap. 1588, d. 1653), royalist army officer and mathematician." 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.