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.

Since the Reformation.

—Hales Esquire, sounded and endowed a fair Grammar School in Coventry, the Priory of which he had purchased from King Henry 8.

Jo. Lord Harrington, born at Combe-Abbey, was no less Pious then Noble. He began the Fashion of a diary, wherein he registred his daily failings. Being a wise Accomptant, he used that method of Christian Arithmetick, in numbering his dayes with such exact∣ness, that it seems he had but one day to account for▪ and repent of, before his death. He was a most boun∣tiful Benefactor to Sidney-Colledge. He dyed in his prime, and unmarried, being the last Male of that Honourable Family, as one complains by way of Ana∣gram; Johannes Dominus Harringtonius, insignis erat (Ah!) Ʋnus Honor Domi. He left his two Sisters his Heirs, Lucy, Married to Edward Earl of Bedford, and Anne, who by Sir Robert Chichester, had a Daugh∣ter Anne, married to Thomas Earl of Elgin, and Mo∣ther to Robert Lord Bruce, who is at this day Heir apparent to no small part of the Lands, but actually possessed of a large share of the Vertues of his great Uncle.