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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Sandys, George, 1578-1644.
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London :: Printed for John Wright ... Thomas Passinger ... and William Thackary ...,
1684.
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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." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A62166.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 6, 2024.

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Princes.

Hen. Eldest Son of King Jo. born at Winchester An. 1208. was a Pious but Poor King. He was at first postponed to King Lewis of Fr. and afterwards em∣broyled with the Barons Wars and imprisoned; yet at last he attained a comfortable old Age by the means of his Son Prince Edward. He would be governed by those he knew to be wiser than himself, the main cause of his Peaceable Death and Pompous Burial in the Abbey of Westminster of his own Foundation An. Dom. 1273.

Eleanor Daughter to E. 1. was born at Winch. An. 1306. and dyed in her Infancy, and lyeth buried in St. Pet. Westm.

Arth. Eldest Son to King Hen. 7. and Queen Eliz.

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was born at Winch. An. 1486. being Partus Octome∣stris yet vigorous; He is more known to Pesterity by the Widow he left the Lady Kath. Dowager, than by any of his own Personal Performances. He dyed An. 1502. and lies buried in the Cathedral of Wore.

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