James Compton 1622-1681
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James COMPTON, 3rd Earl of Northampton 1622-81
Biographical Note
Landowner, administrator, playwright.
Books
Ca.250 books were seized from his home by the London Committee for Sequestration in 1643, and sold for £57 3s 6d. His manuscript plays and translations, long held at Castle Ashby, are now in the British Library.
Sources
- Kelliher, W. H. "Compton, James, third earl of Northampton (1622–1681), playwright and translator." Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
- Roy, I. The libraries of Edward, 2nd Viscount Conway, and others, Bulletin of the Institute of Historical Research 43 (1968), 35-46.
- Williams, W. P. The Castle Ashby manuscripts, The Library 6th ser 2 (1980), 391-412.