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Nicholas Battely (1648-1704) was an English clergyman and antiquary, editor of
William Somner William Somner (1598–1669) was an English antiquarian scholar, the author of the first dictionary of the Anglo-Saxon language. Life He was baptised in the church of St. Margaret, Canterbury, on 5 November 1598, but according to a statement of ...
’s ''Cantuaria Sacra'' and brother of John Battely.


Life

Nicholas Battely was born in
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, the son of Nicholas Battely, an apothecary. He attended the Bury Grammar School and was admitted a pensioner of
Trinity College, Cambridge Trinity College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. Founded in 1546 by King Henry VIII, Trinity is one of the largest Cambridge colleges, with the largest financial endowment of any college at either Cambridge or Oxford. ...
, on 30 March 1665. He was made a fellow of
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in 1670 and ordained priest at Ely Cathedral on 18 September 1675. He was Rector of Nowton in Suffolk 1680-85 and Rector of Creeting St. Olave in the same county in 1681. In 1685, he became Rector of Ivychurch in Kent and Vicar of Bekesbourne. He married Anne Pocklington, of Brington in
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. He was the father of Oliver Battely. Nicholas Battely died on 19 May 1704, shortly after the publication of his edition of Somner. He is buried in Bekesbourne church.


Works

In 1703 Battely published a folio volume of the ''Antiquities of Canterbury''. The work was illustrated. Battely also left in manuscript a history of Eastbridge Hospital;, after having been partially printed in
John Strype John Strype (1 November 1643 – 11 December 1737) was an English clergyman, historian and biographer from London. He became a merchant when settling in Petticoat Lane. In his twenties, he became perpetual curate of Theydon Bois, Essex and lat ...
's ''Life of Whitgift'', it was published in John Nichols's ''Bibliotheca Topographica Britannica'', vol. i. (1780). Some notes by Battely on
William Dugdale Sir William Dugdale (12 September 1605 – 10 February 1686) was an English antiquary and herald. As a scholar he was influential in the development of medieval history as an academic subject. Life Dugdale was born at Shustoke, near Coles ...
's ''Monasticon'' were used by
John Lewis John Robert Lewis (February 21, 1940 – July 17, 2020) was an American politician and civil rights activist who served in the United States House of Representatives for from 1987 until his death in 2020. He participated in the 1960 Nashville ...
in his ''History of Faversham'', 1727.


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;Attribution 1648 births 1704 deaths 17th-century English Anglican priests Writers from Bury St Edmunds Fellows of Peterhouse, Cambridge Clergy from Bury St Edmunds {{UK-Christian-clergy-stub