Background
Spelman was the son of Henry Spelman, antiquary. He edited from manuscripts in his father"s library.
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John Spelman
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He studied at Cambridge University and at Brasenose College, Oxford.
Career
He is known for his biography of Alfred the Great. Psalterium Davidis latino-saxonicum vetus (1640), and wrote a of Alfred the Great which was translated into Latin and published in 1678. Whereas his father was a leading expositor of the idea of an "ancient constitution", John Spelman was a theorist of the Royalist cause.
He was knighted by Charles I of England in 1641 and served the king actively at Oxford at the beginning of the First English Civil War.
The House of Commons ordered Sir John Spillman to be sent for as a delinquent on 10 December Spelman died in Brasenose College of the camp disease about 24 July 1643. Spelman married Anne Townshend, daughter of Sir John Townshend, of Raynham, Norfolk, and Anne Bacon, by whom he had a son, Roger Spelman.
Membership
2nd Parliament of King Charles I]
He entered Gray"s Inn on 16 February 1608 and later travelled in continental Europe In 1626 he was elected Member of Parliament for Worcester.
