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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]
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.
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.
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 ...
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.
Thomas Fuller, M.D. (24 June 1654 – 17 September 1734) was a British physician, preacher and intellectual. Fuller was born in Rosehill, Sussex , and educated at Queens' College, Cambridge . [ 1 ] He practised medicine at Sevenoaks . [ 1 ]
This is indicated by abundant external and internal evidence. The change of names, from "Oldcastle" to "Falstaff", is mentioned in seventeenth-century works by Richard James (Epistle to Sir Harry Bourchier, c. 1625) and Thomas Fuller (Worthies of England, 1662). It is also indicated in details in the early texts of Shakespeare's plays.