Thomas Fidge

Thomas Fidge had been Mayor of Canterbury in 1671. He obtained the freedom of the city in 1647.

The Benefactors' Book (f. 102v) records four gifts:

Thomas Fidge, Civis et Aldermannus Civitatis Cantuar: dedit
    Senecæ Opera. fol.
    Plauti Opera. 4to.
    The Rhemists Testament. 4to.
    The Parliament of Christ, by Tho. Heskyns. fol.

Shelfmark W/A-3-4

New Testament of Iesus Christ faithfully translated into English, out of the authentical Latin, diligently conferred with the Greeke, and other editions.
Antwerp: 1600.

Presentation inscription on front pastedown: Feb. 6 1674/5 Ex Dono Thomae Fidge Aldermanni in civitate Cantuariae.

Shelfmark W/I-4-37

Plautus. Opera Dionys. Lambini ... emendatus: ab eodémque commentariis explicatus. Nunc denuò plurimis, mendis, repurgatus: ....
Geneva: 1605.

Inscription on title page: Christ's Ch. Canterbury.

Possibly the copy given by Thomas Fidge c. 1675 (Benefactors' Book)

Shelfmark W/K-7-30

Lucius Annaeus Seneca. L. Annaei Senecae Philosophi opera quae exstant omnia: a Iusto Lipsio emendata et scholiis illustrata. ... Aucta Liberti Fromondi scholiis ... .
Antwerp: 1652.

Inscription on half title: Sam:l Drake.

Possibly the copy given by Thomas Fidge c. 1675 (Benefactors' Book)

Shelfmark W/N-4-22

Thomas Heskyns. Parliament of Chryste auouching and declaring the enacted and receaued trueth of the presence of his bodie ... in the ... sacrament ...
Antwerp: 1566.

Inscription on verso of front free endpaper: Ex dono Thomæ Fidge Ciuitatis Cantuariensis Aldermanni.

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