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.
Henry eldest (surviving) Son of Jo. of Gaunt D. of Lancaster was born in the Castle of Bullinbrook. He was Couragious, Choleric and Ambitious, cun∣ning to catch, careful to keep, and industrious to improve all advantages. Being disobliged by R. 2. he complotted with a good part of the Nobility to depose him, whose Miscarriages, ill success and De∣bauchery exposed him to their Fury. After the Mur∣der of King Richard, Henry reigned with much opposition. He persecuted the Wickliffites (who had been patronized by his Father) thereby to be ingratiated with the Clergy. When Duke, he wore on his head an Antick hood. On his death-bed he complained of his Sufferings in Keeping, nothing bewayling his sin in getting the Crown. Fire and Faggot was kindled in his Reign in England to burn (Pardon the Prolepsis) poor Protestants, and
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happy had it been, had they been quenched at his death, which hapned 1413.
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