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.

—Jeffrey, born in Okeham, never arrived at a full ell in stature, tho his Father was a pro∣per man, and was presented to the Dutchess of Buckingham, as a very great Rarity, being then but a foot and a half in height, and a very well proportioned dwarf about 9 years of Age. The Dutchess raised him to a considerable degree of Eminency, when after many special marks of her Favour, she caused him to be presented in a cold baked pye to King Charles and Queen Mary at an Entertainment. Hence living at Court, he grew so high that he lookt not down upon his Father, until by a sound correction (at the Kings command) his Mind was reduced into somewhat nearer pro∣portion with his Body. He was a Captain in the Army in the late civil Wars, and afterwards went over to wait on the Queen in France. He shot one Mr. Crofts who had provoked and account∣ed him the object rather of his contempt than An∣ger: whereupon he was imprisoned. And so I take my leave of Jeffery the least Man of the least County in England.