History of the Reed family in Europe and America

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Master of the Hospital of St. Mary Magdalen, near Win-
chester. He was made LL.D. in 1528.
In 1437, Richard, Phillip, and Robert Eede held the
manor of Hallbury, in the 7th and 15th of Henry VI.
Henry Reade was Sheriff of London in 1477.
Simeon Reade was Mayor of Norwich in 1502.
Edmund Reed of Morgansleigh in the county of Devon-
shire, rector, was once interrupted and abused in the pulpit,
and at length deposed when he had been nearly forty years
minister in that place. The chief accusation against him
was his approval of the " Book of Sports." He lived to be
restored, but died soon after.
Charles Read, Esq., built and endowed a celebrated school
and hospital at Tuxford on the river Trent. There is at
the present time a Charles Reed, who is a distinguished
English author.
There was a Dr. Samuel Read of Stafford in England,
who, in 1645, furnished one Cook with funds to build a
gristmill in Cambridge, Mass., and took a mortgage of the
same. Whether this mill was on Charles River, or on a
small stream which is in West Cambridge, I have no know-
ledge ; but it was a great enterprise for those days, and
controlled the location of highways in that section. He was
probably a relative of the Puritan emigrants of the same
name, and lived in the vicinity of Boston in England.
There was a John Reade of St. John's College, who was
made Bachelor of Divinity, April 10, 1516 ; and died in 1587,
being the Prebendary of Westminster. He was buried in
St. John's College Chapel. There was a Thomas Reade,
who was Rector of Adcome in Somersetshire, who died
about the year 1570. Thomas Reade of Upham married
Alice Petre, about the time of Henry VIII. Sir John of
Sussex married Bridget, the daughter of Lord Thomas
Munson, about the year 1600. Sir John of Bodington had