Thomas Palfreyman

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Thomas Palfreyman (died 1589?) was an English author and musician.

Life

He was a gentleman of the chapel royal in Edward VI's reign, together with Thomas Tallis, Richard Farrant, William Hunnis, and others. He continued in office till 1589, apparently the year of his death. John Parkhurst, the bishop of Norwich, addressed an epigram to Palfreyman and Robert Couch jointly, and complimented them on their proficiency in music and theology. Palfreyman seems to have lived in the London parish of St Peter, Cornhill.

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Works

The following works, all religious, are assigned to him:

‘An Exhortation to Knowledge and Love of God,’ London, 1560.
‘Tho. Palfreyman his Paraphrase on the Romans; also certain little tracts of Mart. Cellarius,’ London, no date; as well as tracts by Martin Cellarius this contained a letter of Huldrych Zwingli.^[1]
‘Divine Meditations,’ London, by Henry Bynneman for William Norton, 1572; dedicated to Isabel Harington, a gentlewoman of the Queen's privy chamber.
‘The Treatise of Heauenly Philosophie: conteyning therein not onely the most pithie sentences of God's sacred Scriptures, but also the sayings of certaine Auncient and Holie Fathers, London, by William Norton, 1578;’ a quarto of nine hundred pages, dedicated to Thomas Radclyffe, 3rd Earl of Sussex.

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References

"Palfreyman, Thomas" . Dictionary of National Biography . London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.

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Notes

↑ Kraye, Jill. "Palfreyman, Thomas". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/21156.(Subscription or UK public library membership required.)

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[1] Kraye, Jill. "Palfreyman, Thomas". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/21156.(Subscription or UK public library membership required.)