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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.
The weekly returns were based on death certificates, and therefore much more accurate than the bills of mortality based on burials. When the Registrar General began weekly returns in 1840 to the Metropolis defined in the 1831 census were added the parishes of Bow, Camberwell, Fulham, Hammersmith and the Greenwich Poor Law Union.
This is a list of the sheriffs and (after 1 April 1974) high sheriffs of Wiltshire. Until the 14th century, the shrievalty was held ex officio by the castellans of Old Sarum Castle . On 1 April 1974, under the provisions of the Local Government Act 1972 , the title of Sheriff of Wiltshire was retitled as High Sheriff of Wiltshire.
The history of the worthies of England, Volume 2 By Thomas Fuller; Various authors (1890). The English historical review. Longman. [full citation needed] Burke, John (1831). A general and heraldic dictionary of the peerages of England, Ireland, and Scotland, extinct, dormant, and in abeyance. England. Oxford University. Green, Judith A. (1990).
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.
Believed dead in England, he fled to the New Haven Colony, where he died in 1689 under an assumed name. [58] 39 Valentine Walton: Alive Escaped to Germany after being condemned as a regicide. Died in 1661. [59] 40 Simon Mayne: Alive Tried and sentenced to death, he died in the Tower of London in 1661 before his appeal could be heard. [60] 41 ...
Thomas Fuller. Thomas Fuller (1608–1661), an English churchman and historian. Fuller's work was anti-Jewish and relied heavily on that of William of Tyre. It was the first to incorporate accounts of the military orders, the Albigensian Crusade and the Northern Crusades into his narrative. [98] [99] [100] The Historie of the Holy Warre (1639).
Parliament took on Ryley, who had come to London, in 1644, who served as clerk of the records. [11] [12] 1651: The Long Parliament decided that the Master of the Rolls should take over the post, with a clerk to look into the records. [13] Ryley, who had been assistant to Selden, retained the post. [14] 1660–1669: William Prynne. [15]