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.

Richard Plantagenet, Second Son to King Ed. 4. and Eliz. his Queen, was born at Shrewsbury, 1472. He was created Duke of York and affianced to Anne Daughter and Heir to Jo. Mowbray D. of Norfolk, but before the Nuptials were Solemnized his cruel Uncle the Duke of Glocester married him to a Grave in the Tower of London. The obscuri∣ty of his Burial gave the advantage to the report that he lived in Perkin Warbeck, one of the Idols

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which put Henry 7. to some Danger and more Trouble before he could finally suppress him.

Geo. Plantag. Youngest Son to E. 4. and Eliz. his Queen, was born at Shrewsbury, and lived but a ve∣ry short time, being like Plautus his Solstitial Flow∣er Qui repentinò ortus repentinò occidit.

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