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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The Battle on October 3. 1642.
The Fight at Edge-Hill was very terrible, no fewer then Five Thousand Men slain upon the place; the Prologue to a greater Slaughter, if the dark night had not put an end to that dispute. The Victory went on the Kings side, who though he lost his General, yet he kept the Field, and possessed himself of the dead Bo∣dies, and not so only, but he made his way open unto London, and in his way forced Banbury Castle, in the very sight as it were of the Earl of Essex, who with his flying Army made all the hast he could towards the
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City, (that he might be there before the King) to secure the Parliament. The King afterwards entred triumphant∣ly into Oxford, with no fewer then 120 Colours taken in the Fight. Yet here many of the Loyal Gentry of Lincoln-shire, fell with the Earl of Linsey their Coun∣try-man, and had not some miscarriage happened here, the Royalists had totally in all probability routed their Enemies.