Thomas Palfreyman (died 1589?) was an English author and musician.

Life

He was a gentleman of the chapel royal in Edward VI's reign, together with

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, and others. He continued in office till 1589, apparently the year of his death.

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, addressed an epigram to Palfreyman and Robert Couch jointly, and complimented them on their proficiency in music and theology. Palfreyman seems to have lived in the London parish of St Peter, Cornhill.

Works

The following works, all religious, are assigned to him: * ‘An Exhortation to Knowledge and Love of God,’ London, 1560. * ‘Tho. Palfreyman his Paraphrase on the Romans; also certain little tracts of Mart. Cellarius,’ London, no date; as well as tracts by

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this contained a letter of

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. * ‘Divine Meditations,’ London, by Henry Bynneman for William Norton, 1572; dedicated to Isabel Harington, a gentlewoman of the Queen's privy chamber. * ‘The Treatise of Heauenly Philosophie: conteyning therein not onely the most pithie sentences of God's sacred Scriptures, but also the sayings of certaine Auncient and Holie Fathers, London, by William Norton, 1578;’ a quarto of nine hundred pages, dedicated to

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. In 1567 Palfreyman revised and re-edited ‘A Treatise of Morall Philosophy, containynge the sayinges of the wyse,’ which

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had first published in 1547. Palfreyman's version of 1567 is described as ‘nowe once again augmented and the third tyme enlarged.’ It was published by

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on 1 July 1567, and was dedicated to

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. It was a popular book, and new editions appeared in 1575, 1584, 1587, 1591, 1596, 1610, 1620, and 1630.

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;Attribution {{DEFAULTSORT:Palfreyman, Thomas Year of birth missing 1589 deaths 16th-century English musicians 16th-century English writers 16th-century English male writers English religious writers Gentlemen of the Chapel Royal