John Budden (1566–1620) was an English jurist,

Regius Professor of Civil Law at Oxford The Regius Chair of Civil Law, founded in the 1540s, is one of the oldest professorships at the University of Oxford. Foundation The Regius Chair of Civil Law at Oxford was founded by King Henry VIII, who established five such Regius Professors ...

, and Principal of Broadgates Hall.

Life

He was the son of John Budden of Canford,

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—his birthplace. He entered

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, Oxford, in Michaelmas 1582, was admitted a scholar of

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, on 30 May 1583, and proceeded B.A. on 29 October 1586, M.A. on 27 June 1589, and B.C.L. and D.C.L. on 8 July 1602. At the request of

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, he migrated to

Gloucester Hall Gloucester College, Oxford, was a Benedictine institution of the University of Oxford in Oxford, England, from the late 13th century until the Dissolution of the monasteries in the 16th century. It was never a typical college of the Universit ...

about 1587, and devoted himself to civil law. Before 1602 he became philosophy reader at

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, held the office of Principal of

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from 1609 to 1618, and was Regius professor of civil law, and principal of Broadgates Hall. He died at Broadgates Hall on 11 June 1620, and was buried in the neighbouring church of St. Aldate's.

Works

He was the author of Latin lives of Bishop

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, Oxon. 1602, and of Archbishop John Morton, London, 1607. The former was published by William Bates, and was republished in the volume entitled ''Vitæ selectorum aliquot virorum'', London, 1681. Budden also translated into Latin

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's ''Statutes of the Public Library'' and Sir Thomas Smith's ''Commonwealth of England'' (1610, other editions in 1625 and 1630), and into English (from the French of Pierre Ayrault) ''A Discourse for Parents' Honour and Authority over their Children'', London, 1614, dedicated to

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References

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