Barclay, Alexander, 1475?-1552
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found: Brandt, S. The shyp of fooles, 1983:t.p. (Alexander Barclay)
found: LC data base, 5-24-84(hdg.: Barclay, Alexander, 1475-1552)
found: Oxford dictionary of national biography online, 21 April 2015(Barclay, Alexander (c. 1484-1552); poet and clergyman; birth date and place unknown; date of birth usually given as 1475 or 1476 on the ground that he gives his age as thirty-eight in the prologue to his Eclogues, parts of which were written as early as 1513 or 1514, but it is not known when the prologue was composed; ordained priest in 1508; seems more likely that he was born around 1484, since the priesthood was not conferred until age 24; in 1513 became a Benedictine monk in Ely Cathedral priory; left Ely to become a Franciscan between 1521 and 1528; died at Croyden, Surrey in June 1552)
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1984-05-30: new
2015-04-22: revised
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