Goddred Gylby (
fl.
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1561), was an English
translator
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. A son of
Anthony Gilby
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, he translated
Cicero
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's ''
Epistle to Quintus'', London, 1561, and
John Calvin
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's ''Admonition against Judicial Astrology'' (no date).
['']Dictionary of National Biography
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'', Gilby, Anthony (d 1585), puritan divine, by E. T. Bradley. Published 1889.
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