Page:The Life of Sir Thomas Bodley written by himself.djvu/39



WAS born at Exeter in Devonshire, the 2d of March, in the Year 1544; descended, both by Father and Mother, of Worshipful Parentage. By my Father's side, from an ancient Family of Bodley, or Bodleigh, of Dunscombe by Crediton; and by my Mother from Robert Hone Esq; of Offerey Saint Mary, nine Miles from Exeter. My Father in the time of Queen Mary, being noted and known to be an Enemy to Popery, was so cruelly threatned, and so narrowly observed by those that maliced his Religion, that for the