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.

Since the Reformation.

W. Pemble, maintained in a great proportion by Jo. Barker of Mayfield in this Shire, Esquire, was bred in (or if you will, he bred) Magdalens-Hall in Oxford, that house owing its late Lustre to his Learned Lectures. An excellent Oratour, and a better Christian. He dy∣ed in the Flower of his Age.

Tho. Chune Esq living at Alfriston, set forth a Ma∣nual, Entituled, Collectiones Theologicarum Conclusionum, which positions are brief and clear; set forth 1635.

Tho. May, of a worshipful but decayed Family, was bred Fellow Commoner in Sidney-Colledge in Cambridge, and afterwards lived about the Court. Being an Ele∣gant Poet, he Translated Lucan into English; some affirm that he took some disgust at Court, because his Bays were not gilded enough, nor his Verses reward∣ed by King Charles I. according to his Expectation. He afterwards wrote on History of this State in the be∣ginning of the Civil Wars. He died suddenly in the night, 1652.

Jo. Selden, born at Salvington, within the Parish of East Terring, was Son to Jo. by his Wife Margaret, Daughter and Heir of Tho. Barker of Rushington, de∣scended from a Knightly Family in Kent. He was bred in Hart hall in Oxford, then in the Inner Temple in London; where he attained great skill in the Law, and all Antiquity. He traced all the dimensions of Arts and Languages, as appear by the many and various Works which he hath written, whereof Lay-Gentle∣men prefer his Titles of Honour, Lawyers his Mare Clausum, Antiquaries his Spicilegium ad Eadmerum, Clergy-men like best his Book de Diis Syris, and worst his History of Tithes; For which Book, having been called to an account before the High Commission, 'tis said that afterwards he was no Friend to Bishops, ne∣ver affecting the Men, nor cordially approving their Calling. But it is certain Mr. Selden did in a Letter to Arch-Bishop Laud, express his unfeigned contrition for setting forth of the said Book of Tithes. That which afterwards Entituled him to a general populari∣ty, was his pleading with Mr. Noy, for an Habeas Cor∣pus, for such Gentlemen who were imprisoned for re∣fusal of the Loan. He had very many Ancient and Modern Coyns, and dyed exceeding Wealthy. His large and excellent Library is now reposited (Bodly within a Bodly) in the matchless Library of Oxford.