Name Index

To

Biography of John Bodley, father of Sir Thomas Bodley

Trans. Devon. Assoc. vol. 35, (1903) pp.167-197.

by

F.B. Rose-Troup

Prepared by Michael Steer

John Bodley (c.1520Ð1591), religious radical and publisher, was born in St Stephen's parish, Exeter, the son of the merchant John Bodley (d. 1527), of Exeter, and Alice Gale (d. 1558), of Dartmouth. About 1543 he married Joan (d. 1586), daughter of prominent merchant Robert Hone of Ottery St Mary. Bodley and his kin were some of the leading merchants of Exeter and, were at the forefront of its burgeoning protestant movement, one of the few in the south-west where Protestantism found popular support in the first half of the sixteenth century. 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.