Author:Thomas Blount

Thomas Blount
(1618–1679)

Works

• The Art of making Devises, treating of Hieroglyphicks, Symboles, Emblemes, Ænigmas, Sentences, Parables, Reverses of Medalls, Armes, Blazons, Cimiers, Cyphres, and Rebus, translated from the French of Henry Estienne, Lord of Tossez (1646)
• The Academie of Eloquence, containing a compleat English Rhetorique exemplified, with Common places and Formes digested into an easie and methodical way to speak and write fluently, according to the mode of the present times, together with Letters, both Amorous and Moral, upon emergent occasions (1654)
• Glossographia, or a Dictionary interpreting all such hard words, of whatsoever language, now used in our refined English tongue, with etymologies, definitions, and historical observations on the same; also the Terms of Divinity, Law, Physick, Mathematicks, and other Arts and Sciences explicated; very useful for all such as desire to understand what they read (1656)
• The Lamps of the Law and Lights of the Gospel, or the Titles of some late Spiritual, Polemical, and Metaphysical New Books (1658)
• Boscobel, or the History of his Sacred Majesties most miraculous preservation after the battle of Worcester, 3 Sept. 1651 (1660) Project Gutenberg
• The Catholic Almanac for 1661–2–3
• The Pedigree of the Blounts, printed in Peacham's Complete Gentleman (1661)
• Animadversions upon Booker's Telescopium Uranicum, or Ephemeris, 1665, which is very erroneous (1665)
• The several Statutes concerning Bankrupts, methodically digested, together with the Resolutions of our learned Judges on them (1670)
• A Law Dictionary interpreting such difficult and obscure Words and Terms as are found either in our Common or Statute, Ancient or Modern Lawes. With References to the several Statutes, Records, Registers, Law-Books, Charters, Ancient Deeds, and Manuscripts, wherein the Words are used; and Etymologies, where they properly occur (1670) IA
• Journey to Jerusalem in 1669 (1672)
• Animadversions upon Sir Richard Baker's Chronicle and its continuation, wherein many errors are discovered and some truths advanced (1672)
• A World of Errors discovered in the Interpreter of hard Words written against Sir Edward Philips book entitled A New World of English Words (1673)
• Fragmenta Antiquitatis, Ancient Tenures of Land, and Jocular Customs of some Manors (1679)

Works about Blount

• "Blount, Thomas (1618-1679)," in Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, London: Smith, Elder, & Co. (1885–1900) in 63 vols.
• "Blount, Thomas," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)