Editing Thomas Bodley (section)

==Origins==
Thomas Bodley was born on 2 March 1545, in the second-to-last year of the reign of King [[Henry VIII of England|Henry VIII]], in the [[city of Exeter]] in Devon. He was one of the seven sons<ref>Vivian, p.96</ref> of John Bodley (d. 15 Oct. 1591)<ref>Vivian, p.96</ref> of Exeter, a [[Protestant]] merchant who chose foreign exile rather than staying in England under the [[Catholic Church|Roman Catholic]] government of Queen [[Mary I of England|Mary]] ({{reign | 1553 | 1558}}).  He was thereby involved<ref>{{Cite web |title=Sir Thomas Bodley and his library |url=http://www.tyndale.org/tsj21/offord.html |access-date=2023-05-14 |website=www.tyndale.org |issn=1357-4167 |language=English |url-status=live |archive-date=June 22, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160622140850/http://www.tyndale.org/tsj21/offord.html |date=4 February {{ndash}} 1 June 2002}}</ref> in the publication of [[Rowland Hill (MP)|Sir Rowland Hill's]] [[Geneva Bible]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=Besant |first=Sir Walter |title=London in the Time of the Tudors |publisher=Adam and Charles Black |year=1904}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JXjrtAFaf9oC&q=%22rowland+hill%22&pg=PP51 |title=A New Family Bible, and Improved Version ... With Notes, Critical and Explanatory ... By the Rev. B. Boothroyd |date=1824 |publisher=The author |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |title=Subscription |url=https://newspaperarchive.com/boston-daily-globe-apr-12-1886-p-2/ |journal=Boston Boston Daily Globe |url-access=subscription |date=April 12, 1886 |page=2 |access-date=2023-05-14 |url-status=live |archive-date=February 21, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230221213909/https://newspaperarchive.com/boston-daily-globe-apr-12-1886-p-2/ |lang=en |publisher=[[Heritage Microfilm, Inc.#NewspaperArchive|NewspaperArchive]]}}</ref>

John's father, also John Bodley, was a younger son of the gentry family of Bodley of Dunscombe,<ref>Vivian, p.96</ref> near [[Crediton]]<ref>[[Todd Gray (Devon Historian)|Gray, Todd]] & Rowe, Margery (Eds.), Travels in Georgian Devon: The Illustrated Journals of The Reverend [[John Swete]], 1789-1800, 4 vols., Tiverton, 1999, Vol.3, pp.125-6
</ref> in Devon. Thomas's mother was Joan Hone, a daughter and co-heiress of Robert Hone of [[Ottery St Mary]], Devon.<ref>
[[John Lambrick Vivian|Vivian, Lt.Col. J.L.]], (Ed.) ''The Visitations of the County of Devon: Comprising the  [[Heraldic visitation|Heralds' Visitations]] of 1531, 1564 & 1620'', Exeter, 1895, p.96, pedigree of Bodley
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Thomas's younger brother was Sir [[Josias Bodley]], knighted in Ireland by the [[Earl of Devon]].<ref>Vivian, p.96.</ref>