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 June 10, 2024.
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Souldiers.
When the rest of the East-Angles cowardly fled away in the Field from the Danish Ar∣my, the Men of the County of Camb. did manfully resist; whence it was, that* 1.1whilst the English did rule, the praise of the People of Cambridgeshire did most eminently flou∣rish. At the coming of the Normans, they made so stout a Resistance, that the Conqueror who did fly into England, was glad to creep into Ely. Cambridgeshire∣men commonly passed for a Proverb, tho now like old Coyn, almost grown out of request. Indeed the Common-people have Robust bodies able to carry 8 Bushels of Barley on their Backs, whereas 4 are found a sufficient Load for Men of other Counties, and I doubt not but if there were occasion their Arms and Hands would appear to be as good as their Backs and Shoulders.