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BROUGHTON, Hugh. A Revelation of the Holy Apocalyps, [Middelburg, R. Schilders], 1610, 4°, enlarged edition, A-Z4 2A-2U4 2X2 + unsigned errata leaf, woodcut title border, engraved map, 2 engraved plates, with manuscript notes in contemporary hands to front blanks, rear pastedown and in many margins. [STC 3884. Topic 2: "Biblical interpretation and exposition in a broader sense"] With 4 short pamphlets bound in as follows: Hugh BROUGHTON. A Petition to the King for authority and allowance to expound the Apocalyps in Hebrew and Greek, [Amsterdam, G. Thorp], 1611, 4° in 2 [STC 3876. Topic 3: "Relations with Jews, especially attempts to convert them". Without the Greek version]; Most humble Supplication to the King, for present performance of long purposed allowance, to open the law in the letters and tonge of Adam: for Jewes and all the sonnes of Adam, [Middelburg? R. Schilders?] 1609, 4° in 2 [STC 3872. Topic 3]; A Petition to the King to hasten allowanc
BROUGHTON, Hugh. A Revelation of the Holy Apocalyps, [Middelburg, R. Schilders], 1610, 4°, enlarged edition, A-Z4 2A-2U4 2X2 + unsigned errata leaf, woodcut title border, engraved map, 2 engraved plates, with manuscript notes in contemporary hands to front blanks, rear pastedown and in many margins. [STC 3884. Topic 2: "Biblical interpretation and exposition in a broader sense"] With 4 short pamphlets bound in as follows: Hugh BROUGHTON. A Petition to the King for authority and allowance to expound the Apocalyps in Hebrew and Greek, [Amsterdam, G. Thorp], 1611, 4° in 2 [STC 3876. Topic 3: "Relations with Jews, especially attempts to convert them". Without the Greek version]; Most humble Supplication to the King, for present performance of long purposed allowance, to open the law in the letters and tonge of Adam: for Jewes and all the sonnes of Adam, [Middelburg? R. Schilders?] 1609, 4° in 2 [STC 3872. Topic 3]; A Petition to the King to hasten allowance for Ebrew Institution of Ebrewes, [Amsterdam? 1610?], 4° in 2 [STC 3877. Topic 3] [and:] W. PRIMROSE. A Funerall Poeme upon the Death of the learned Divine Mr Hugh Broughton, who deceased in anno 1612 August the 4. Interred the 7, drop-head title [W. Jaggard? 1612], 4° in 2 [STC 20393]. Together 5 works in one volume, contemporary calf with central lozenge in gilt and blind (rebacked, upper cover detached), bookplate of Robert, Marquis of Crewe.

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BROUGHTON, Hugh. A Revelation of the Holy Apocalyps, [Middelburg, R. Schilders], 1610, 4°, enlarged edition, A-Z4 2A-2U4 2X2 + unsigned errata leaf, woodcut title border, engraved map, 2 engraved plates, with manuscript notes in contemporary hands to front blanks, rear pastedown and in many margins. [STC 3884. Topic 2: "Biblical interpretation and exposition in a broader sense"] With 4 short pamphlets bound in as follows: Hugh BROUGHTON. A Petition to the King for authority and allowance to expound the Apocalyps in Hebrew and Greek, [Amsterdam, G. Thorp], 1611, 4° in 2 [STC 3876. Topic 3: "Relations with Jews, especially attempts to convert them". Without the Greek version]; Most humble Supplication to the King, for present performance of long purposed allowance, to open the law in the letters and tonge of Adam: for Jewes and all the sonnes of Adam, [Middelburg? R. Schilders?] 1609, 4° in 2 [STC 3872. Topic 3]; A Petition to the King to hasten allowance for Ebrew Institution of Ebrewes, [Amsterdam? 1610?], 4° in 2 [STC 3877. Topic 3] [and:] W. PRIMROSE. A Funerall Poeme upon the Death of the learned Divine Mr Hugh Broughton, who deceased in anno 1612 August the 4. Interred the 7, drop-head title [W. Jaggard? 1612], 4° in 2 [STC 20393]. Together 5 works in one volume, contemporary calf with central lozenge in gilt and blind (rebacked, upper cover detached), bookplate of Robert, Marquis of Crewe.

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Hugh Broughton (1549-1612), divine and rabbinical scholar, entered Magdalen College, Cambridge, in 1569, and there laid the foundation of his Hebrew learning by attending the lectures of the French scholar Antoine Rodolphe Chevallier. His first published work was a Concent of Scripture (1588) in which he attempted to settle the scripture chronology, and the genealogical tables prefixed to old bibles are probably his work, although assigned to Speed. In 1597, while residing at Middelburg, he published a project for "translating the Bible from the original", but to his immense chagrin was not among the fifty-four learned men appointed for the revision in 1604. He involved himself in controversy concerning Christ's descent into Hell, maintaining that Hades was a place not of torment but of departed souls. From 1604-11, he was preacher to the English congregation at Middelburg. Although satirised by Ben Jonson in Volpone (1605) and The Alchemist (1610), he continued "to write and publish assiduosuly" until his death in 1612.

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