Swithin Butterfield 1547-1611
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Swithin / Swithune BUTTERFIELD 1547-1611
Biographical Note
Of St Boltoph, Cambridge. Gentleman and author of The Principles of the True Christian Religion (1590). Read widely and made extensive notes, which he compiled and had bound in six volumes.
Books
Bequeathed ca. 60 books to Pembroke College there, including his own manuscripts compilations, and £10 to buy books.
Sources
- Green, Ian. "Butterfield, Swithune (bap. 1547, d. 1611), author." Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
- Jayne, S. Library catalogues of the English renaissance. Godalming, 1983, 143.