Butler, Thomas (sixteenth century?); perhaps to be identified with Thomas Butler/Botelar (1487?-1571), Vicar of Holy Trinity, Much Wenlock 1524-62: see Clark, Collectors, 64, and W. F. Mumford, `Wenlock in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries', in Wenlock 1468-1968, ed. L. C. Lloyd (Much Wenlock, 1968), 15-24, at 19-20; Butler also owned London, British Library, IA.49240, IA.49245, and IA.49745; Clark, and Ian Ross, The Abbey of St Peter and St Paul and Parish Church of the Holy Cross Shrewsbury (Much Wenlock, 1993), 8, record that Thomas Butler was Abbot of Shrewsbury Abbey (1529-39), and was pensioned when he surrendered to Henry VIII in 1539; possibly the same Thomas Butler as Emden, BRUC, 113, admitted BTh[?] Cambridge 1510-11. ♦ Categorisation: Type: Person. Gender: Unknown. Period: 16th century.

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• L-204(1) Lydgate, John — The Life of Our Lady [English]. — [Westminster]: William Caxton, [1483]. Folio.

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