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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Statesmen.

Sir Th. Bromley, born at Bromley, of a right an∣cient Family, was Solicitor Gen. to Queen Elizabeth before he was 40 and afterwards Lord Chancellour of England 1579. before he was 50 years old; of great Learning and Integrity. He died 1587. Learning in Law may seem to run in the Veins of that name, which since hath had a Baron of the Exchequer of his Alliance.

Sir Clem. Edmunds, born at Shrawardine and bred in Oxford, generally skilled in all Arts and Scien∣ces, (Witness his Translation of, and Illustrations on Caesar's Commentaries) was Clerk of the Coun∣cil to King James, Knighted by him, and at last preferred Secretary of State, tho he acted not therein, being prevented by death happening 16.. He lyes buried at Preston in Northam. were he purchased a fair estate which his Grand∣child doth possess at this day.