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: Sandys, George, 1578-1644.
Publication: London :: Printed for John Wright ... Thomas Passinger ... and William Thackary ...,; 1684.
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Memorable Persons.

Rosamund, Daughter of Walter Lord Clifford, was a Mistress-piece of Beauty, (and therefore Con∣cubine to H. 2.) and Mother to William Longespee Earl of Salisbury. King Henry is said to have Built a Labyrinth at Woodstock, to hide this his Mistress from Jealous Juno, (Queen Eleanor) who (yet) getting access to her, caused her death. She was Buried at Godstow-Nunnery near Oxford, with this Epitaph,

Hîc jacet in Tumbâ Rosa Mundi non Rosa munda, Non redolet sed olet, quae redolere solet.

Hugh Bishop of Lincoln caused her Bones to be scattered, which afterwards were gathered by the Nuns, and put into a perfumed Bag, where they continued till the Reign of H. 8.

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