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History of the Worthies of England (1662). [8] Fuller's best-known work. The Poems and translations in verse, including fifty-nine hitherto unpublished epigrams of Fuller and his much-wished form of prayer for the first time collected and edited with introduction and notes , by rev. Grosart, 257 pp., Liverpool, printed for private circulation ...
The 14th-century carving "Nine Good Heroes" (known as "Neun Gute Helden" in the original German) at City Hall in Cologne, Germany, is the earliest known representation of the Nine Worthies. From left to right are the three Christians: Charlemagne bearing an eagle upon his shield, King Arthur displaying three crowns, and Godfrey of Bouillon with ...
Mischeefes Mysterie by Francis Herring, translated by John Vicars, 1617. John Vicars (1582, London – 12 April 1652, Christ's Hospital, Greyfriars, London) was an English contemporary biographer, poet and polemicist of the English Civil War.
The territory today known as England became inhabited more than 800,000 years ago, as the discovery of stone tools and footprints at Happisburgh in Norfolk have indicated. [1] The earliest evidence for early modern humans in Northwestern Europe , a jawbone discovered in Devon at Kents Cavern in 1927, was re-dated in 2011 to between 41,000 and ...
John Howie (14 November 1735 – 5 January 1793) was a Scottish biographer. [1] [2] [3] His best known work was Biographia Scoticana, first published in 1775, which is often called The Scots Worthies.
The oldest town hall, which was built as a chapel for pilgrims, is Dover Town Hall, thought to have been completed in around 1203, [2] while the oldest purpose-built town hall is Bury St Edmunds Guildhall, which dates back to around 1220. [3] The tallest town hall is Manchester Town Hall with a clock tower which rises to 280 feet (85 m). [4]
William Walworth (bottom left), one of the "Nine Worthies of London", kills Wat Tyler, at London Bridge, 1381.Nine Worthies of London is a book by Richard Johnson, the English romance writer, written in 1592.
Nine Worthies, a group of nine figures considered paragons of chivalry The Worthys , a cluster of four villages in the City of Winchester district, Hampshire, England Topics referred to by the same term