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.

Physicians.

Robert Recorde, well descended, was bred in Oxford, where he proceeded Dr. of Physick. He wrote five famous Treatises, viz. of Arithmetic, Astrology, Ge∣ometry, Physick and Metals; and was well skilled in Anatomy, Cosmography and Musick. He wrote also of Auricular Confession, and De Negotio Eucharistiae, with which subjects no Roman Catholick is to meddle. He flourished under King Edward 6. about 1550.

Thomas Phacer, was bred (I believe) first in Oxford, then in London, a general Scholar, and well versed in the Common Law, wherein he wrote a Book, De Na∣turâ Brevium. He afterwards proceeded Dr. of Phy∣sick He Translated out of the French many useful Books, 1. Of the Pestilence. 2. Of the Grief of Chil∣dren. 3. Of the Nature of Simples. 4. The Regiment of Natural Life. He likewise Translated Virgil's E∣neads. He dyed and was buried in London, 1550.

Albane Hill, Dr. of Physick, wrote much on Ga∣len, and was famous at home and abroad, flourishing (as I conjecture) about 1550.