Bible, English.

8vo (182 x 120mm), text in roman, double columns (72 lines to the full page), General and New Testament titles within border of Tribes, Apostles and Evangelists [McKerrow & Ferguson 233], Royal Arms on verso of General title, cut of Adam and Eve before Genesis, rubricated, this copy without Apocrypha, Psalms at the end, family tree of the strode family in an eighteenth-century hand on rear endpaper, contemporary or near contemporary olive green morocco, central gilt lozenge of various tools, within double borders composed of further handles, rolls and pointillé tools, spine divided into five compartments ornately tooled in gilt, heavy gauge silver decorative corner pieces (engraved "Recor..dare..George Strode" on both covers), central  fleur-de-lys (engraved "Matrem") and clasps, all edges gilt, marbled paste-downs, recased



sir george strode's family bible, in a fine contemporary english binding.

Sir George Strode (1583--1663), translator and commissioner of the ordnance for Charles I who organised the artillery train at the Battle of Edgehill, with the Strode family tree in an eighteenth-century hand on rear endpaper (beginning with Colonel Edward Strode of Downside, Shepton Mallet; also with the family tree of the related Bayly family down to 1770 on front endpapers).

DMH 546; STC 2342

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In 1615 George Strode married Rebecca Crisp (d. 1645) and had fourteeen children. At the outbreak of the civil war Strode served in the infantry and was knighted on 30 July 1641. For his role in organising the 1642 Kentish petition parliament ordered his arrest. Bail was posted by Sir Nicholas Crisp and Strode's friend, the royalist William Russell. He then joined the King at Oxford and was appointed a commissioner of the ordnance and conducted the artillery train at the battle of Edgehill on 23 October 1642, where he was badly wounded (as alluded to in  his epitaph). Thereafter he remained at Oxford, playing a vital role in the royalist war effort.  Late in the war Strode went abroad, and there "in these sad distracted times, when I was inforced to eat my bread in forein parts", he wrote, he solaced himself by translating a work by Cristofero da Fonseca, which appeared in English in 1652. One of his sons, Sir Nicholas Strode, knighted on 27 June 1660, was an examiner in chancery, and another, Colonel John Strode, was in 1661 in personal attendance on Charles II, who appointed him governor of Dover Castle.