The Digital Ark: Early Modern Collections of Curiosities in England and Scotland, 1580-1700

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Henry Byard ( - fl. 1641)

Possibly Henry Byard of Bretby, Derbyshire who graduated BA Magdalen College, Oxford in 1638 at the age of 19 and MA Magdalen Hall in 1641 (Alumni Oxonienses 1500-1714) and was ordained in Lincoln in 1640 (Clergy of the Church of England Person ID 141139). Thomas Fairfax's notes on a sermon by a Mr. Byard are contained in a British Library manuscript owned by Thoresby (Add MS 4929). See GEMMS sermon no. 011718 (https://gemms.itercommunity.org/view_record.php?table=sermon&id=11718). References in Documents:
Sale Catalogue of Musaeum Thoresbyanum (1764) 1 TWelveTwelve Vol. of Sermons, by Topham, Byard &c. many of them preached before General Fairfax during the Civil Wars and the Interregnum, and some of them copied by the General in his own Hand