Edward Ayscu, Ayscough or Askew (1550–1616/17), was an English historian.D. R. Woolf
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'', Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 2008, accessed 10 Aug 2011 Ayscu was educated at

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, where he graduated B.A. in 1586-1587. He afterward resided at Cotham, in Lincolnshire, from which place he dates the preface to his only work, ', London, 1607, 4to. Ayscu has sometimes been confused with his cousin Sir Edward Ayscu (1596–1654?) of South Kelsey.For example, the ''DNB'' claimed the elder Ayscu to have been living in 1633.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Ayscu, Edward 17th-century English historians 17th-century English writers 17th-century English male writers Alumni of Christ's College, Cambridge 1550 births 1617 deaths Year of death uncertain