View source for Sylvius Elwes 1576-1638

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===[[name::Sylvius]] or [[name::Silvester]] [[name::ELWES]] [[date of birth::1576]]-[[date of death::1638]]===
[[File:ElwesSylvius1.jpg| thumb |Armorial stamp of Sylvius Elwes (British Armorial Bindings)]]
====Biographical Note====
Son of [[family::Geoffrey Elwes]], of [[location::Woodford, Essex]].  BA [[education::Trinity College, Cambridge]] 1597, MA 1600, [[occupation::chaplain]] 1601, a post he held for the rest of his life.

====Books==== 

Elwes [[bequest::gave]] 184 books to [[beneficiary::Trinity College, Cambridge|Trinity]] in [[date of bequest::1626;1630|1626-30]], chosen (according to the note in the donors’ book) on the grounds of usefulness or as likely to be difficult to find; we do not know what proportion of his entire collection this represented.  The contents were largely [[subject::theology|theological]], with a mixture of other subjects, including [[subject::history]].  The only mention of books in his will (which is largely concerned with monetary bequests) was a dispensation to [[associates::Thomas Comber]] ([[occupation::Master]] of [[organisations::Trinity College, Cambridge|Trinity]], d.[[date of death::1654]]) to keep those books of Elwes which he had; the residue of goods and chattels was [[bequest::left]] to his [[beneficiary::brother]] [[family::Jeremy Elwes|Jeremy]].  Books with Elwes’ armorial are found in various libraries outside [[organisations::Trinity College, Cambridge|Trinity]].  Examples: Trinity College D.15.25, K.17.6; Lincoln College, Oxford N.1.13; Chetham’s Library G.7.26; Durham Cathedral Library E.III.34; NAL Clements P9; Maggs 1156 (1993)/42.

====Characteristic markings==== 
Elwes used two armorial stamps. They are found on many of the books given to Trinity College, sometimes with part of the armorial hand-painted.

====Sources====
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*[https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/D877011 Will of Sylvester Elwes, The National Archives PROB 11/178/684].
*[https://armorial.library.utoronto.ca/stamp-owners/ELW001 British Armorial Bindings].
*Gaskell, R. ''Trinity College Library: the first 150 years'', 1980.
*Venn, J. & J. A. ''Alumni Cantabrigienses''. Cambridge, 1922.
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