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.

Statesmen.

Sir Thomas Egerton Knight, extracted from an An∣cient Family in this County, so Eminent a Lawyer, that Queen Eliz. made him her Solicitor, then Master of the Rolls, then Keeper of the Great Seal An. 38 of of her Reign. A man of great Wisdom and Gravity, quick Wit, solid Judgment, ready Ʋtterance, and great integrity. An. 1. Jac. he was made Lord Chancellor (the same in effect with Lord Keeper) and of Lord Elismer, he was created Viscount Brackley 1616. Great was the Con∣tention for many years together betwixt this Lord of Equity and Sir Edw. Coke the Oracle of Justice at West∣minster-Hall. His civil Death (by Resignation) hap'ned a few days before his Natural Death, after which his Body was buried in Duddleston in this County. He left a fair Estate to his Son, who was afterwards Created Earl of Bridgewater. When he observed King James to be profuse to the Scots he advised him to preserve his Crown-lands, seeing he or h••s Successors might meet with Parliaments which

would not supply his occasions, but on such Condi∣tions as would not be very acceptable. It was an ordinary Speech with him Frost and Fraud end in Foul. He dyed 1616.