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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G. S.
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London :: printed for Thomas Passinger at the three Bibles on London-Bridge, William Thackary at the Angel in Duck-lane, and John Wright at the Crown on Ludgate-Hill,
1684.
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Prelates.
Herbert Losing, born in Oxford, Son of an Abbot, gave 1900l. to King William Rufus for the Bishoprick of Thetford, having also purchased his Fathers preferment. Hence the Verse Filius est Praesul, Pater Abbas, Simon uterque, both be∣ing guilty of Simony. Herbert afterwards went to Rome (no such clean washing as in the water of Tyber) and returned thence as free from fault as when first born. Thus cleansed from the Le∣prosie of Simony, he removed his Bishoprick from Thetford to Norwich, laid the first Stone and in effect finished the fair Cathedral therein, and built 5 beautifull Parish Churches. He died 1119. See Suff.
Owen Oglethorp, Pres. of Magdalen Colledg.* 1.1 Dean of Windsor, and Bishop of Carlile (in the Reign of Queen Mary) crowned Queen Elizabeth which the rest of his Order refused to do, and by her deprived for his ensuing Stubbornness distilled in him by other Popish Bishops, who abused his good Nature. He died of an Apoplexy 1559.