John leland itinerary
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John Leland (antiquary)
English Tudor poet and antiquary
John Leland or Leyland (13 September, c. 1503 – 18 April 1552) was an English poet and antiquary.[2][3][4]
Leland has been described as "the father of English local history and bibliography".[5] His Itinerary provided a unique source of observations and raw materials for many subsequent antiquaries, and introduced the county as the basic unit for studying the local history of England, an idea that has been influential ever since.
Early life and education
Most evidence for Leland's life and career comes from his own writings, especially his poetry. He was born in London on 13 September, most probably in about 1503, and had an older brother, also named John.[2][6] Having lost both his parents at an early age, he and his brother were raised by Thomas Myles. Leland was educated at St Paul's School, London, under its first headmaster, William Lily.[2] It was here that he already met some of his future benefactors, notably Willia
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John Leland: Theologian of the First Amendment
Almost as striking as the size of the cheese were the senders: the Baptists of Cheshire, Massachusetts. Although Jefferson never disclaimed the Christian faith, the President denied the most basic beliefs of traditional Christianity, from the doctrine of the Trinity to the deity of Christ to the resurrection. Instead, as Thomas S. Kidd has shown in his recent spiritual biography of Jefferson, the Virginian “crafted a rationalist, ethics-focused version of Christianity.” Yet two days after the arrival of the cheese, Jefferson invited the leader of the Cheshire Baptists to preach before a joint session of Congress. The preacher’s name was John Leland, the so-called “Mammoth Priest,” and the President attended Leland’s sermon himself. Leland’s sermon was based on Matthew 12:42, “And behold a greater than Solomon is here,” an allusion to both Jesus Christ and the President.
But what could Jefferson, an enlightenment liberal who largely denied the supernatural, possibly have in common with a New England evangelical like Leland? The
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John Leland (?1506-1552) librarian, poet, and antiquary, was probably of a Lancashire family, but born in London, where he was at St Paul’s School when William Lilly was headmaster. He went to Christ’s College, Cambridge and then after an episode as tutor to the Duke of Norfolk’s son, to Oxford (possibly All Souls), and then to Paris. In 1529 he was made a chaplain to Henry VIII, possibly at Wolsey’s suggestion. With Nicholas Udall, he composed verses for the Royal Entry of Anne Boleyn leading up to her coronation on 1 June 1533. He seems to have adopted Cromwell as patron, and in 1533, with the Dissolution of the Monasteries threatened, he received the King’s ‘moste gratius commission ... to peruse and diligently to serche al the libraries of monasteries and collegies of this yowre noble reaulme’ and to list all their significant books’.1 By 1536, when an Act of Parliament decreed that all religious houses with an income of less than £200 per annum were to be closed down, there was a serious threat that the books he had been catalo
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