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AGARDE, ARTHUR (1540--1615)

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Originally appearing in Volume V01, Page 366 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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AGARDE, See also:ARTHUR (1540--1615) , See also:English See also:antiquary,, was See also:born at Foston, See also:Derbyshire, in 1540. He was trained as a lawyer, but entered the See also:exchequer as a clerk. - On the authority of See also:Anthony a See also:Wood it has been stated that he was appointed by See also:Sir See also:Nicholas See also:Throckmorton tobe See also:deputy-See also:chamberlain in, 1570, and that he held this See also:office for See also:forty-five years. His patent of See also:appointment, however, preserved in the Rolls Office, proves that he succeeded one See also:Thomas Reve in the See also:post on the 11th of See also:July 1603. With his See also:friends, Sir See also:Robert See also:Cotton and See also:Camden, he was one of the See also:original members of the Society of Antiquaries. ; He spent much labour in cataloguing the records and See also:state papers, and made a See also:special study of the Domesday See also:Book, preparing an explanation of its more obscure terms. Thomas See also:Hearne, in his Collection of Curious Discourses written by Eminent Antiquaries (See also:Oxford, 1720), includes six by Agarde on such subjects as the origin of See also:parliament, the antiquity of shires, the authority. and privileges of heralds, &c. Agarde died on the 22nd of See also:August 1615 and was buried in the See also:cloister of See also:Westminster See also:Abbey, on his See also:tomb being inscribed "Recordorum regiorum hic prope depositorum diligens scrutator." He bequeathed to the exchequer all his papers See also:relating to that See also:court, and to his friend Sir Robert Cotton his other See also:manuscripts, amounting to twenty volumes, most of which are now in the See also:British Museum.

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