Godwin Walsall d.1608

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Godwin WALSALL d.1608

Biographical Note

BA Corpus Christi College, Cambridge 1601/2, MA and fellow Pembroke 1605. He seems to have been the college's Hebrew Lecturer.

Books

Walsall's probate inventory includes over 100 books, valued at £9 5s 1d (from a total estate valued at £27 13s 1d). The books are mostly in Latin and Greek with some Hebrew and English. The books cover a variety of subjects including theology, lexicography, literature and music. The full inventory is edited as Leedham-Green no.185 (see full citation below).

Sources

  • Leedham-Green, E. S., Books in Cambridge inventories, Cambridge, 1986, no.185/p.557-559.
  • Venn, J. and J. A., Alumni Cantabrigienses, Cambridge, 1922.