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.

Confessors.

John Marbeck, a skilful Organist in Windsor-Quire, who not perfectly understanding the Latin Tongue, did out of the Latin with the help of the English Bible make an English Concordance, commended high∣ly by Bishop Gardiner, yea by King Hen. VIII. saying, He was better employed than those Priests who accused him. Marbick was a very Zealous Protestant, of so sweet a Nature, all good Men did love, and few bad Men did hate him. Yet he was Condemned An. 1544. on the Stat. of the six Articles to be Burnt at Windsor, but was pardoned, some say for the Love Gardiner bore to him, some, that his Accusers, out

of Remorse of Conscience procured his Pardon, o∣thers that they intended to reserve him for a disco∣very of others. 'Twas a pardonable mistake of Mr. Fox in affirming this Marbeck was burnt, which he afterwards amended. Some Cavil, and tell us, That, Many who were burnt in Fox's time, in the Reign of Queen Mary, drank Sack in the days of Queen Elizabeth; but Humanum est errare, Protestants disclaim infallibility, and will reclaim their Errors when known.

Robert Bennet Lawyer, in Windsor, a zealous Pro∣fessor of the true Religion, when Mr. Testwood was Condemned, was sick of the Plague in the Prison of the Bishop of London, and by that means preserved, receiving a Pardon after his recovery.