NameRose Putenham 
DeadBEF 1581
BornSherfield?, Hampshire
Spouses
Born1522
DeadFeb 1605/1606, Newton Flotman, Norfolk
YrkeAuthor
Notes for Thomas (Spouse 1)
In the London Subsidy Returns of 1576, Thomas Blundevile is listed as being worth 20 pounds and living in location/rollnumber 79.
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AUTHOR: Blundeville, Thomas.TITLE: M. Blundevile His Exercises,Contayning eight Treatises, the Titles whereof are set downein the next Printed Page: which Treatises are very necessaryto be read and learned of all yong Gentlemen that have not beeneexercised in such Disciplines, and yet are desirous to haveknowledge as well in Cosmographie, Astronomie, and Geographie,as also in the Art of Navigation, in which Art it is impossibleto profit without the helpe of these, or such like Instructions.To the furtherance of which Art of Navigation, the sayd MasterBlundevile specially wrote the said Treatises, and of meeregood will doth dedicate the same to all young Gentlemen of thisRealme. The sixth Edition corrected and augmented.PUBLICATION:London: William Stansby, 1622. SIZE: Square 8vo.COLLATION:Lacks A1 blank,A2-8, B-Eee8.PAGINATION: [14], 799, [1]pp. DESCRIPTION:1/2 old calf, marbled boards, front hinge creased, rear hingepartially split. Banded spine, paper labels (faded) with titlejust detectable in manuscript. All edges red. Front hinge reenforcedalong interior with cloth tape. Bookplate on front pastedown.Light to moderate browning, dampstains along lower margins oftenweakening strength of paper. ILLUSTRATIONS: Printer's deviceon t.p., numerous text illustrations throughout. 4 of 5? Foldouts--Map of France, longitudinal globe, plate with volvule pieces,& nautical planisphere.EDITION: Sixth edition.NOTES: ThomasBlundeville (fl.1561) is largely unknown apart from his writingsand a monument which he erected to his father, grandfather andgreat-grandfather in the church at Newton Flotman. althoughit is supposed that he was educated at Cambridge. He was a writeron horsemanship and young men's education, among other things.The present work went through seven editions before 1636. Thereis an account of Drake's voyage, an account of Mercator's globeand one by Petrus Plancius,a work on the astrolabe, treatiseson navigation etc.CITATIONS: STC 3150. ESTC s115763. Sabin6024. Cox II,363 "Of the seven or eight editions the sixth of1622 is said to be the rarest extant..."SUBJECT CATEGORIES:Scientific. Mathematics. Sailing. Sea. Surveying. Travel. Map.Drake.PRICE: $1,000.00
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Some works of Thomas Blundeville
Blundeville, Thomas, fl. 1561. Arte of logick. Plainely taughtin the English tongue, according to the best approued authors.Very necessary for all students in any profession, how to defendany argument against all subtill sophisters, and cauelling schismatikes,and how to confute their false syllogismes, and captious arguments.By M. Blundevile.
Blundeville, Thomas, fl. 1561. Fower chiefyst offices belongyngto horsemanshippe that is to saye. The office of the breeder,of the rider, of the keper, and of the ferrer. In the firsteparte wherof is declared the order of breding of horses. Inthe seconde howe to breake them, and to make theym horses ofseruyce, conteyninge the whole art of ridynge lately set forth,and nowe newly corrected and amended of manye faultes escapedin the fyrste printynge, as well touchyng the bittes as otherwyse. Thirdely howe to dyet them, aswell when they reste aswhen they trauell by the way. Fourthly to what diseases theybe subiecte, together with the causes of such diseases, thesygnes howe to knowe them, and finally howe to cure the same.Whyche bookes are not onely paynfully collected out of a nomberof aucthours, but also orderly dysposed and applyed to the vseof thys oure cou[n]trey. By Tho. Blundeuill of Newton Flotmanin Norff.
Blundeville, Thomas, fl. 1561. Theoriques of the seuen planetsshewing all their diuerse motions, and all other accidents,called passions, thereunto belonging. Now more plainly set forthin our mother tongue by M. Blundeuile, than euer they haue beenheretofore in any other tongue whatsoeuer, and that with suchpleasant demonstratiue figures, as euery man that hath any skillin arithmeticke, may easily vnderstand the same. ... VVhereuntois added by the said Master Blundeuile, a breefe extract byhim made, of Maginus his Theoriques, for the better vnderstandingof the Prutenicall tables, to calculate thereby the diuersemotions of the seuen planets. There is also hereto added, Themaking, description, and vse, of two most ingenious and necessarieinstruments for sea-men ... First inuented by M. Doctor Gilbert... and now here plainely set downe in our mother tongue byMaster Blundeuile.