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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. List of Worthies of Devon - Wikipedia

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    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.

  4. 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.

  5. 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 ...

  6. John Mowbray, 3rd Duke of Norfolk - Wikipedia

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    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]

  7. Thomas Fuller (writer) - Wikipedia

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    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 ]

  8. Sir John Oldcastle - Wikipedia

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    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.

  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]