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Sir Thomas Bodley
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City of Geneva: Where, (as far as I remember) the English Church consisted of some hundred Persons. I was at that time of 12 Years of Age; but through my Father's Cost and Care, sufficiently instructed to become an Auditor of Chevalerius in Hebrew, of Beroaldus in Greek, of Calvin and Beza in Divinity, and of some other Professors in that University; (which was newly then erected) besides my domestical Teachers, in the House of Philibertus Saracenus a famous Physician in that City, with whom I was boarded: where Robertus Constantinus that made the Greek Lexicon, read Homer unto me. Thus I remained there two Years and