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.

Confessors.

Sim. Fish, Esq. a Lawyer, was forced to fly beyond the Seas for personating Proud Woolsey in a Trage∣dy. His Book called the Supplication of Beg∣gars approved by Hen. 8. was the occasion of his Return to England after 2 years absence. He esca∣ped the Hands of Men, (viz. Sir Th. More, and more Papists) and fell into the Hands of God, dying of the Plague. 1531.

Sir Ja. Hales, J. of the Com. Pleas, a Man of sig∣nal Integrity, when the rest of the Judges (frighted with the Frowns of the D. of North.) subscribed the disinheriting of the Lady Mary and Lady Eliz. he only refused, as against both Law and Consci∣ence. Yet An. 1. Q. Mary, by urging some Laws of E. 6. he fell into the Displeasure of B. Gardiner, was imprisoned and so threatned by his Keeper that he endeavoured to have killed himself, which being set at liberty he afterwards effected, Drown∣ing himself in a small Water near his House. He had led a Godly Life, and suffered much for his Conscience.