Thomas Palmer d.1640

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Thomas PALMER d.1640

Biographical Note

BA Emmanuel College, Cambridge 1617, MA Magdalen College, Oxford 1620. Ordained 1623 by Theophilus Field, Bishop of Llandaff; Vicar of Bedminster, Somerset and of St Mary Redcliffe, Bristol from 1623 until his death.

Books

Palmer’s probate inventory includes “books”, in the study, valued at £60 (from a total estate valued at £190). The study also included a desk and boxes (valued at 13s 4d), and “a little table board, one chair, one curtain and curtain rods and a case of shelves” (12s). Plate valued at £30 was also held in the study.

Sources

  • George, E. (ed), Bristol probate inventories 1542-1650, 2002, 117.
  • Venn, J. and J. A., Alumni Cantabrigienses, Cambridge, 1922.