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Edward Palmer||| Edward Palmer (fl. 1572), antiquary, was the son of a gentleman of Compton Scorfen, Ilmington, Warwickshire, and belonged to the old family of Palmer in that neighbourhood (cf. Dugdale, Warwickshire, ed. 1730, page 633). He was educated at Magdalen Hall, Oxford, and appears in the list of its students in 1572 (University Register, Oxf. Hist. Society, volume ii. part ii. page 38). He took no degree, but, living on his patrimony, devoted himself to heraldry, history, and antiquities. He became known to learned men of his day, especially to Camden, who calls him (Britannia, 'Gloucestershire') a curious and diligent antiquary. He does not appear to have published anything, but Wood (Athenæ Oxon. ed. Bliss, ii. 28; cf. Gentlemen's Magazine., 1815, part ii. page 233) states that he made 'excellent collections of English antiquities, which, after his death, coming into the hands of such persons who understood them not, were therefore … embezzled, and in a manner lost. He had also a curious collection of coins and subterrane antiquities, which in like sort are also embezzled'. A note by him on the valuation of coins current is in Cotton manuscript Otho, E. X., folio 301, b. ii.[DNB 1][1]

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