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THOMAS BLOUNT (1618-1679)

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Originally appearing in Volume V04, Page 87 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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THOMAS See also:BLOUNT (1618-1679)  , See also:English antiquarian, was the son of one Myles See also:Blount, of Orleton in See also:Herefordshire . He was See also:born at Bordesley, See also:Worcestershire . Few details of his See also:life are known . It appears that he was called to the See also:bar at the Inner See also:Temple, but, being a zealous See also:Roman See also:Catholic, his See also:religion interfered considerably with the practice of his profession . Retiring to his See also:estate at Orleton, he devoted himself to the study of the See also:law as an See also:amateur, and also read widely in other branches of knowledge . He died at Orleton on the 26th of See also:December 1679 . His See also:principal See also:works are Glossographia; or, a See also:dictionary interpreting the hard 'words of whatsoever See also:language, now used in our refined English See also:tongue (1656, reprinted in 1707), which went through several See also:editions and remains most amusing and instructive See also:reading; Nomolexicon: a law dictionary interpreting such difficult and obscure words and terms as are found either in our See also:common or See also:statute, See also:ancient or See also:modern See also:lawes (167o; third edition, with additions by W . See also:Nelson, 1717); and Fragmenta Antiquitatis: Ancient Tenures of See also:land, and jocular customs of some mannors (1679; enlarged by J . See also:Beckwith and republished, with additions by H . M . Beckwith, in 1815; again revised and enlarged by W . C .

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Hazlitt, 1874) . Blount's Boscobel (1651), giving an See also:account of See also:Charles II.'s preservation after See also:Worcester, with the addition of the See also:king's own account dictated to See also:Pepys, has been edited with a bibliography by C . G . See also:Thomas (1894) .

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