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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Title: 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.
Author: G. S.
Publication: 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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Writers on the Law.

Sir Geo. Crook, Knight, Son to Sir Jo. and Eliz. Ʋmp∣ton his Wife, was born at Chilton An. 2. Eliz. bred first in Oxford, then a double Reader in the Inner Temple, and the Kings Serjeant, Justice of the Com. Pleas 22. Jac. then Chief Justice of England. 4. Car. His Ability is sufficiently attested by his Reports. His judgment was against Ship-money. The Coun∣try-man said That Ship-money may be gotten by Hook but not by Crook. His Piety is evidenced by his Cha∣rity, building a Chappel at Beachley in Buck. and a Hospital in the same Parish with a liberal Revenue. When old, he sued out a Writ of Ease, and after∣ward dyed at Waterstock in Oxford-shire. 82. Aet. An. Dom. 1641.

Edw. Bultstrode, Esquire; bred in the Study of the Municipal Laws, in the Inner Temple and Justice in North-wales hath written a Book of Reports of Judg∣ments given in the Kings Bench, in the Reigns of King Ja. and King Ch. and is lately deceased.