Edmund Peerpoynt d.1557

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Edmund PEERPOYNT or PIERPOINT d.1557

Biographical Note

BA Christ's College, Cambridge 1537, fellow there from 1538, MA 1540, BD 1548, Lady Margaret Preacher 1549, master of Jesus College 1551. He also held several ecclesiastical livings.

Books

Peerpoynt's probate inventory includes ca.125 books, valued at £13 1s 4d (from a total estate valued at just over £375). The books are mostly in Latin, with some Greek and Hebrew, with a predominance of theology alongside some philosophy, classics, and other topics. He bequeathed a number of specific books to Jesus College, mostly theological, though they cannot be traced there today. The full inventory is edited as Leedham-Green no.74 (see full citation below).

Sources

  • Leedham-Green, E. S., Books in Cambridge inventories, Cambridge, 1986, no.74/p.163-6.
  • Venn, J. and J. A., Alumni Cantabrigienses, Cambridge, 1922.