Name Index

To

An Exeter worthy and his biographer

Trans. Devon. Assoc. vol. 29, (1897) pp. 350-377.

by

Frances B. Troup

Prepared by Michael Steer

Ignatius Jourdain, began his business life with kinsmen in Exeter. In 1576 he was sent by his employer to Guernsey, where he was converted (born again) to Puritanism. In 1599 he was appointed a Bailiff of Exeter. He was a member of the Chamber in 1608, Receiver of the City in 1610, Sheriff of Exeter in 1611, Mayor in 1617. He served as Deputy Mayor in 1624 for three months during the plague, when all the magistrates had fled. He was a Member of Parliament for Exeter 1625-1628. Google with the Archive Organization has sponsored the digitisation of books from several libraries. The Internet Archive makes available, in its Community Texts Collection (originally known as Open Source Books), books that have been digitised by Google from a number of libraries. These are books on which copyright has expired, and are available free for educational and research use. This rare book was produced from a copy held by the New York Public Library, and is available from the Internet Archive.