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2 unusual facts about Edward Spelman


Edward Spelman

‘A Short Review of Mr. Hooke's Observations concerning the Roman Senate and the Character of Dionysius Halicarnassus,’ London, 1758, written in reply to some criticisms of Nathaniel Hooke; Spelman's tract was answered by William Bowyer in ‘An Apology for some of Mr. Hooke's Observations,’ London, 1783.

In 1742 he translated Xenophon's Anabasis, under the title ‘The Expedition of Cyrus into Persia, with Notes Critical and Historical,’ London.



see also

Estate of Hugh Naish Act 1737

See also the private Act 21 Geo.2 c.20 (1747), allowing them to proceed against his estate, apart from an agreement of 6 December 1733 between Hugh senior’s executors and creditor Edward Spelman.