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William PETYT 1636/7-1707
Biographical Note
Lawyer, antiquary, Keeper of the Tower Records.
Books
Gave books to the Middle Temple in 1698; left manuscripts to be kept in trust as a collection (now in the Inner Temple). A list of his manuscripts, ca.1700, is in British Library Lansdowne ms 989, fos.99-101. Listed in Edward Bernard's Catalogi manuscriptorum, 1697, as owning numerous manuscripts.
Sources
- Davies, J. C. Catalogue of manuscripts in the … Inner Temple, 1972.
- Greenberg, Janelle. "Petyt [Petit], William (1640/41–1707), lawyer and political propagandist." Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
- Maggs (catalogues of the booksellers Maggs bros) 1293 (2000)/45.