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.

Noted Sheriffs.

Henry 7. An. 3. Jo. Savage, Mil. was made Kt. of the Garter, and Privy Councellour to King Henry 7. And he, or his Son, removed into Cheshire, and Mar∣ried the Heir General of the ancient Family of the Bostocks, and was Ancestor to the present Earl of Rivers.

Henry 8. An. 8. VV. Compton, Mil. was highly favoured by the King, in whose Court no Layman, (Charles Brandon excepted) was equal to him. His Son Peter Married into the Right Honourable Family of Shrewsbury, and his Grandson Sir Henry Compton, was one of the three H. C. (Henry Cary, Henry Comp∣ton, and Henry Cheney) who were made Barons by Queen Elizabeth, and Ancestor to James Earl of Nor∣thampton.

Q, Eliz. An. 19. Jo. Russel, Ar. afterwards Knight∣ed, had a great quarrel with Sir Henry Berkley, so that great blood-shed was like to have ensued, at the Sessions of Worcester; but Dr. Whitgift, Bishop of Worcester, wisely prevented the same, requiring both parties, with their Friends, to come well guarded to his Palace, where disarming them, he put a Conclusion to that Affray, having used perswasions and threatnings to good effect.

36. Jo. Packington, Mil. being a 〈◊〉〈◊〉, but no assi∣duous Courtier, drew the Curtain between himself, and the light of the Queens favour, and then death overwhelmed the remnant, and utterly deprived him of recovery. And they say of him, that had he brought less to the Court then he did, he might have carried away more then he brought, for he had a time of it, but was no good husband of opportunity.

King ••ames. An. 12. Richard Walsh, Ar. after∣wards Knighted, followed the Powder-Traytors (fer∣reted out of Warwick-shire by Sir Richard Verney,) out of the bounds of this County, till they took covert in the house of Stephen Littleton, at Hallbach in Staf∣ford-shire, and not standing on the Punctilio of exceed∣ing his Commission, in a case wherein the Peace of the Kingdom was so highly concerned, prosecuted his Ad∣vantage, and beset the house round about, till both the Rights were killed in the place, Catesby and Piercy slain with one Bullet, Rookwood and Winter wounded, and all the rest apprehended.