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The New Testament of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, Cambridge: Printed by Thomas and John Buck 1630, title within decorative border and with printer's woodcut device, double-column roman text with few decorative woodcut initials, final blank present (4E6), bound with at front The Genealogies Recorded in the Sacred Scriptures..., by J[ohn] S[peed], [London], circa 1630, and The Book of Common Prayer, and Administration of the Sacraments: and other rites and ceremonies of the church of England, with the Psalter and Psalmes of David, Cambridge: Printed by Thomas and John Buck 1630, title detached and frayed, with old cloth strengthening repairs to gutter margin and lower margin (obscuring some letters of title), leaf E2 crudely reattached to paper guard with some text adhesive staining and text loss, bound with at rear The Whole Book of Psalmes: Collected into English meeter, by Thomas Sternhold, John Hopkins, and others..., Cambridge: Printed by Thomas and John Buck 1630, title within decorative border, volume interleaved with blank leaves between each part (few blanks removed at front of volume), some toning, light dust-soiling and few marks, lacking front free endpaper, front pastedown inscribed 'W. Gregory The Gift of Richard Hopton Esqr. at Canon Frome Septbr. 8th 1748. These books were Sr Wm Gregory's but bought by my mother when my Fathers Personal Estate was appraised at How Capel 1702 - 2 volumes' and 'Dr Gregorys Monument in Hambleton Church in Berkshire. He was Rector there', and with removed bookplate, all edges gilt, contemporary brown morocco with elaborate gilt decoration, joints split (old repair to upper joint), loss of leather at foot of spine, some wear, 4to Herbert 432; Darlow & Moule 331 and STC 2293. The New Testament part only of the Bible (NT comprising leaves 3O1-4E6). This and the black-letter issue of the same year are the first quarto editions of King James' version printed at Cambridge, being a reprint of the Cambridge folio of 1629. Sir William Gregory (1625-1696) was a British judge and politician. In 1677 he was elected a Serjeant-at-law and also sat as Member of Parliament for Weobly, Herefordshire. In the same year Gregory purchased the manor and estate of How Caple, Herefordshire, from Edward Caple, whose family had held it since 1289. After only a year in Parliament he was elected to serve as Speaker of the House of Commons in the Habeas Corpus Parliament. In 1689 he was appointed Chief Justice of the King's Bench, a position he held until his death. Richard Hopton (1685-1764), of Canon Frome, near Hereford married on 9th December 1705, Elizabeth, the daughter of Thomas Geers, M.P., of Bridge Sellers, Herefordshire. Elizabeth was the widow of a William Gregory (1676-1702) of How Caple. They had two children William (c.1700-1765) & Elizabeth Gregory. It would appear that at the time Richard Hopton gifted the Bible to William, the first volume (Old Testament) was included. (1)