SPELMAN, SIR HENRY (1564?-1641)

—Historian and antiquary, b. at Congham, Norfolk, studied at Camb., and entered Lincoln's Inn. He wrote valuable works on legal and ecclesiastical antiquities, including History of Sacrilege ( pub. 1698), Glo arium Archæologicum (1626 and 1664), a glo ary of obsolete law-terms, A History of the English Councils (1639), and Tenures by Knight-service (1641). His writings have furnished valuable material for subsequent historians. He sat in Parliament and on various commi ions, and in recompense of his labours was voted a grant of £300.