References
- Tenison . Vol. 1 , 171
- Elizabethan England It is necessary to ask for Tenison's, as there are several other books called; one in the Camelot classics; another a selection of extracts from printed Calendars of State Papers, etc. For centuries the Tenisons have been lovers of antiquities. The Tenison Psalter in the British Museum and the Tenison MSS. at Lambeth are still available; but the first Free Public Library in London, founded in 1692 by the head of the Tenison family and endowed in perpetuity, was broken up by the Government in 1861 and sold for a fraction of its value. It was especially rich in English and foreign chronicles