John Theyer

Theyer made a court appearance in September with two local men, was fined, and added some church brasses to his collection in 1644;[2][3] the tomb inscription to Kingston was later reported lost.

[1] Theyer presented to Charles I, in Merton College garden, a copy of his Aerio Mastix, or a Vindication of the Apostolicall and generally received Government of the Church of Christ by Bishops, Oxford, 1643.

[1][5] It was a controversial work, a contribution to the debate on episcopacy arising from Smectymnuus;[6] the title references Aerius of Sebaste, who in the view of some of Theyer's contemporaries was the first Presbyterian.

1651) matriculated at University College, Oxford, on 7 May 1668, and was probably the lecturer of Totteridge, Hertfordshire, who published A Sermon on her Majesty's Happy Anniversary, London, 1707.

[11] Charles Theyer then offered them to Oxford University, and the Bodleian Library sent Edward Bernard to see them, but no purchase was made, and they passed into the hands of Robert Scott, a bookseller of London.

[13] This 1678 accession to the Library was handled by Henry Thynne;[14] it is considered the major addition to the collection of this period, excepting only the Codex Alexandrinus.

The 1697 Catalogus Manuscriptorum Angliæ by Bernard does not mention the location as the Royal Library, an anomaly for which Richard Bentley was responsible as librarian.

[15] Humphrey Wanley claimed that Cranmer's Commonplace Book was acquired by Henry Compton, and only later was added to the larger collection of the Old Royal Library.

[20] Theyer had a manuscript of Dives and Pauper, a work from around 1400, and attributed it to the Carmelite Henry Parker, as did John Bale, but modern scholarship disagrees.