Richard James
- Born
- 1582 · Newport.
- Died
- 1638 · Westminster.
- Nationality
- Kingdom of England
- Occupation
- librarian · poet · philologist
- Languages
- English
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- 1.James, Richard. 29.
- 2.Department of Religious Studies.
- 3.James, Richard. Unpublished manuscript letter. The National Archives. State Papers Domestic. SP16/152. 1629–1630.
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- John Aikin. The Lives of John Selden, Esq., and Archbishop Usher; With Notices of the Principal English Men of Letters with Whom They Were Connected. 1812. pp 374–5.
- Ralph Cleminson. “Richard James: Priest, Poet, Political Prisoner, Librarian and Lexicographer”, Vis et Sapientia: Studia in Honorem Anisavae Miltenova: Нови Извори, Интерпретации и Подходи в Медиевистиката (Съст. и ред. Аделина Ангушева [и др.]), София: Боян Пенев, 2016, , pp. 698–740.
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