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John Vowell alias Hooker

by

Charles Worthy

Trans. Devon. Assoc. vol. 14, (1882), pp. 631-656.

Prepared by Michael Steer

John Hooker, Hoker or Vowell (c. 1527-1601) was a writer, solicitor, antiquary, civic administrator and advocate of republican government. He wrote an eye-witness account of the siege of Exeter during the 1549 Prayer Book Rebellion. From 1555 to his death he was chamberlain of Exeter, spending several years in Ireland as legal adviser to Sir Peter Carew. He was also a member of both Irish and English parliaments and wrote a treatise on parliamentary procedure. He was one of the editors of the second edition of Holinshed's Chronicles (1587). His last, unpublished and probably uncompleted work was the first topographical description of Devon. 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 University of Michigan Library, and is available from the Internet Archive.