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  2. Thomas Fuller - Wikipedia

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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.

  3. John Wadham - Wikipedia

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    Wadham, panorama viewed from south Arms of Wadham: Gules, a chevron between three roses argent. Sir John Wadham (c.1344–1412) was a Justice of the Common Pleas from 1389 to 1398, during the reign of King Richard II (1377–1399), selected by the King as an assertion of his right to rule by the advice of men appointed of his own choice, and one of the many Devonians of the period described by ...

  4. Phineas Pett - Wikipedia

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    Born at "Deptford Strond", he was the second son of Peter Pett of Deptford, his elder brother being named Joseph.. Thomas Fuller, in his Worthies of England states: "I am credibly informed that the mystery of Shipwrights for some descents hath been preserved successfully in families, of whom the Petts about Chatham are of singular regard."

  5. Burley House - Wikipedia

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    Burley House, Burley-on-the-Hill, Rutland, England is an 17th-century country house built for Daniel Finch, 2nd Earl of Nottingham.Although Finch sought advice on the house from such as Christopher Wren, he appears to have acted as his own architect.

  6. Philemon Holland - Wikipedia

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    Thomas Fuller, writing in the mid-17th century, included Holland among his Worthies of England, terming him "the translator general in his age, so that those books alone of his turning into English will make a country gentleman a competent library for historians." [3] [26] However, his colloquial language soon dated.

  7. Lesbury - Wikipedia

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    Lesbury's most notable parson was Patrick Mackilwyan, who has a place in Thomas Fuller's Worthies of England. He started off by insisting on having his tithes in kind, but settled down with his parishioners and won their regard by visiting the sick in their tents on the moor during the Plague of 1665, although he was then 97. He died there at ...

  8. Fuller (surname) - Wikipedia

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    John Fuller (college head) (died 1558), Master of Jesus College, Cambridge (1557–1558) Peter the Fuller, Patriarch of Antioch; Reginald C. Fuller (1908–2011), British priest and biblical scholar; Thomas Fuller (1608–1661), English cleric and historian, author of Worthies of England

  9. John Bradford - Wikipedia

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    [5] A century later, in his Worthies of England, Thomas Fuller wrote that he endured the flame "as a fresh gale of wind in a hot summer's day, confirming by his death the truth of that doctrine he had so diligently and powerfully preached during his life." [8] Bradford is commemorated at the Marian Martyrs' Monument in Smithfield, London. [9]