Donne, John, 1572-1631 (poet and Church of England clergyman)
Dates
- Existence: 1572 - 1631
Biography
John Donne (1572-1631), poet and divine, was educated privately and at Hart Hall, Oxford, and was admitted to Lincoln's Inn in 1592. He was ordained priest and deacon in 1615, and that year became royal chaplain. In 1616 he was appointed Rector of Keyston, Huntingdonshire, and of Sevenoaks, Kent, and became divinity reader at Lincoln's Inn. Donne was Dean of St Paul's, London, 1621-1631. He died on 31 March 1631. William Strode (1602-1645), poet and dramatist, was educated at Westminster School and Christ Church, Oxford. He became canon of Christ Church, Oxford, and Vicar of Blackbourton, Oxfordshire, in 1638, and was Vicar of Badby, Northamptonshire, 1639-1642. Strode wrote poems and a tragi-comedy, 'The floating island', which was acted before Charles I at Oxford in 1636. He died at Christ Church on 11 March 1645.
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John Donne and others: Sermons, etc.
The volume contains 26 items, in different hands and on different sizes of paper, many anonymous. There are eight sermons by John Donne, and others by Thomas Moore and Josias Shute. There is also a Latin letter from Thomas Egerton to his father John, 1st Earl of Bridgewater, and some geographical material. The volume has the Bridgewater crest and the bookplate of the Bridgewater Library.
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