Edmund Chilmead

Edmund Chilmead (1610 – 19 February 1654) was an English writer and translator, who produced both scholarly works and hack-writing. He is also known as a musician.

Life
He was born in 1610 at Stow-on-the-Wold, Gloucestershire. He studied at Magdalen College, Oxford, where he graduated M.A. in 1631. He became a chaplain (canon) of Christ Church, Oxford, in 1632, from where he was ejected in 1648.

Chilmead died on 19 February 1653-4 in London, and was buried in the churchyard of St Botolph's Aldersgate.

Works
He produced the editio princeps of the Chronographia of Malalas. He translated:

and other works. He produced a catalogue of the Greek manuscripts in the Bodleian Library. He was a clerical defender of astrology, in his translation of Gaffarel.
 * Robert Hues's Tractatus de globis (A Learned Treatise of Globes, 1639)
 * the De Monarchia Hispanica of Tommaso Campanella (Discourse Touching the Spanish Monarchy, 1654)
 * Jacques Ferrand on 'erotic melancholy',
 * the Riti Ebraici of Leon of Modena (The history of the rites, customes, and manner of life, of the present Jews, throughout the world, 1650)
 * the Curiositez of Jacques Gaffarel, (Unheard-of Curiosities Concerning the Talismanical Sculpture of the Persians, 1650)

Anthony Wood described him as "a choice mathematician, a noted critic, and one that understood several tongues, especially the Greek, very well" (Wood, Ath. Oxon., 3.350–51)