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Thomas Fuller (baptised 19 June 1608 – 16 August 1661) was an English churchman and historian. He is now remembered for his writings, particularly his Worthies of England , published in 1662, after his death.
The history of the worthies of England, Volume 2 By Thomas Fuller; Various authors (1890). The English historical review. Longman. [full citation needed] Burke, John (1831). A general and heraldic dictionary of the peerages of England, Ireland, and Scotland, extinct, dormant, and in abeyance. England. Oxford University. Green, Judith A. (1990).
The 20th-century Shakespeare scholar W. W. Greg places it in the reign of Henry VI, basing his conclusion in part on Thomas Fuller's posthumously published History of the Worthies of England (1662). [151] If this is the case then the "Duke of Norfolk" referred to in the play would be Mowbray. [148]
This is a list of the present and extant Barons (Lords of Parliament, in Scottish terms) in the Peerages of England, Scotland, Great Britain, Ireland, and the United Kingdom. Note that it does not include those extant baronies which have become merged (either through marriage or elevation) with higher peerage dignities and are today only seen ...
The publishers (Hodder and Stoughton) claimed that the series was a modern Domesday Book and that the compilers had travelled half-a-million miles in order to complete their task. [1] The vast majority of the content is an alphabetical description of parish churches, and associated historical figures and other local worthies.
T. Fuller, Worthies of England (ii. 343) J. P. Collier, Bibl. and Crit. Account of the Rarest Books in the English Language (vol. i. 1865) Pierre Bayle, Dictionary, Historical and Critical (ed. London, 1734) The Athenaeum (December 26, 1903), where Mr. Bertram Dobell describes a MS. in his possession containing forty-three sonnets by Alabaster.
The earliest biography of Burton appeared in 1662, as part of Fuller's Worthies of England; this was followed by Anthony à Wood in his 1692 volume of Athenae Oxonienses. [124] Samuel Johnson was among the few 18th-century readers to recognise Burton's Anatomy. Into the 18th century, Burton experienced something of a lull in popularity.
First page of the statement of intent published as a preamble to all Rolls Series volumes, dated December 1857. The Chronicles and Memorials of Great Britain and Ireland during the Middle Ages (Latin: Rerum Britannicarum medii aevi scriptores), widely known as the Rolls Series, is a major collection of British and Irish historical materials and primary sources published as 99 works in 253 ...