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Anglorum speculum, or The worthies of England, in church and state Alphabetically digested into the several shires and counties therein contained; wherein are illustrated the lives and characters of the most eminent persons since the conquest to this present age. Also an account of the commodities and trade of each respective county, and the most flourishing cities and towns therein.
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- Anglorum speculum, or The worthies of England, in church and state Alphabetically digested into the several shires and counties therein contained; wherein are illustrated the lives and characters of the most eminent persons since the conquest to this present age. Also an account of the commodities and trade of each respective county, and the most flourishing cities and towns therein.
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- 1684.
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Gallant more high in Maritine performances than Norfolk. Witness Yarmouth's proportion in the Navy used by Edward 3. against—of about 700 Ships and 14500 Men. 43 ships with 1950 belong∣ing to Yarmouth; well nigh double to what London did afford, Yarmouth was very Populous in that Age, and (tho but one Parish) a lamentable Plague in one year did sweep thence 7000 men.
Nich. of Lynne, bred in Oxford, accounted a Fran∣ciscan Frier, an Excellent Musician, Mathemation and Astrologer, is reported to have sailed to the Nor∣thern Islands in the World An. 30 E. 31, 330, and to have gone so far as the Pole Arctick, where he disco∣vered 4 In-draughts of the Ocean from the 4 Quar∣ters of the World. 'Tis said he wrote a Book of discoveries, called Inventio Fortunata. Chaucer makes an Honourable mention of him. He died 1360. and was buried in Lynne.
Pet. Read, Esq. worthily served his Prince and Country, as also Ch. 5. Emp. who gave him the Order of Barbary, for his valiant deeds there and at Tunis. He died 1569.