Great Tew Circle

The Great Tew Circle was a group of clerics and literary figures who gathered in the 1630s at the manor house of Great Tew, Oxfordshire in southern England, and in London.^[1]

Lord Clarendon referred to the Circle as "A college situate in a purer air", referring to its pursuit of truth away from the partisan passions of the town. The house was the property of the noble Cary family, and the circle was brought together by Lucius Cary, who became 2nd Viscount Falkland on the death of his father in 1633. The most prominent of those taking part was Edward Hyde, the future 1st Earl of Clarendon, who after 1660 would become known as a leading statesman, and then a historian.^[2]

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^ Ted-Larry Pebworth, ed. (2000). Literary circles and cultural communities in Renaissance England. University of Missouri Press. p. 174. ISBN 978-0-8262-1317-4. Retrieved 24 March 2012.

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[2] Ted-Larry Pebworth, ed. (2000). Literary circles and cultural communities in Renaissance England. University of Missouri Press. p. 174. ISBN 978-0-8262-1317-4. Retrieved 24 March 2012.

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