Edmund Burges

Edmund Burges was a choir man and a minor canon from 1661 to 1681 (reinstated in 1670 after a suspension for drunkenness); he was also vicar of Willesborough, d. 1681. He is also recorded as being a minor canon at Rochester Cathedral in 1662 and vicar of All Saints, Hoo Allhallows (diocese of Rochester) from 1663 to 1665.

The binding of W2/X-5-11 recorded below suggests that it was originally in an institutional library in the 16th century, possibly in Canterbury.
The earliest recorded owner, William Watmer was an alderman of Canterbury in the early 17th century, and mayor in 1608 and 1620. His son Giles Whatmer died in 1675, which coincides with the record of purchase, when the book was probably bought by Edmund Burges and subsequently given to the Cathedral Library.

Shelfmark W2/X-5-11

Saint Thomas Aquinas. Diui Thome Aquinatis enarrationes, quas Cathenam vere auream dicunt, in quatuor Euangelia. 1532.

16c English blind-stamped binding on wooden boards.

Inscription on title page: Willimus Watmer me iure possidet.

Inscription on title-page verso, obscured by bookplate: [...] Septbri 1675 [...] pretium 6s.

Inscription on f.2: Liber Eccl[es]iæ Christi Cathedralis & metropoliticæ apud Cantuarienses ex dono Edm[un]di Burges Canonici minoris ibidem.

W/R-3-4(1)

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