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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.
Thomas Fuller in his Worthies later wrote of Alleyn's reputation of "so acting to the life that he made any part to become him". [6] Although Alleyn had obtained a good amount of his fortune due to his marriage, he also made much of it from his acting career and owned a large estate in Sussex. [citation needed]
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."
Outside the Bar and judiciary of England and Wales, members have included the clergy (including five Archbishops of Canterbury), [2] the industrialist John Wynne, the astronomer John Lee, media figures, such as Huw Thomas, [3] and members of the Bar and judiciary of other nations, such as Yang Ti-liang (former Chief Justice of the Supreme Court ...
While at Berry Pomeroy, John Prince worked on his magnum opus: a biography of his home county's many notable figures, which he probably finished in 1697.The book ran to 600 pages, with woodcuts to illustrate the 191 biographies.
Thomas White (c.1550–1624) was an English clergyman, founder of Sion College, London, and of White's professorship of moral philosophy at the University of Oxford. Thomas Fuller in Worthies of England acquits him of being a pluralist or usurer; he made a number of other bequests, and was noted in his lifetime for charitable gifts.
Among the poems in England's Helicon (1600), signed S.E.D., and included in Dr A.B. Grosart's collection of Dyer's works (Miscellanies of the Fuller Worthies Library, vol. iv, 1876) is the charming pastoral "My Phillis hath the morninge sunne," but this comes from the Phillis of Thomas Lodge.
Elizabeth of Rhuddlan (1282–1316), daughter of Edward I of England and Eleanor of Castile, interred at Waltham Abbey with her infant daughter and other members of the de Bohun family; Thomas Fuller (1608–1661), churchman and historian; John Foxe (1516/17–1587), author of Foxe's Book of Martyrs, lived in a street now called Foxes Parade ...