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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 story is retold as fact in Thomas Fuller's 1662 Worthies of England. [31] [d] Ballads referring to the incident circulated in England, Scotland and France. [32] The earliest English and French versions appear to have been composed near the time. [33]
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]
[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]
He was born in York, according to the Worthies of Thomas Fuller. Fuller also says he gained the nickname “green-head” when a young preacher at Paul's Cross, attacking inequality. He preached against the Lord Mayor, too, in 1603, when he was a lecturer at St Augustine Watling Street in London. [1]
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 ]
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.
Thomas Fuller notes in Worthies of England that Feckenham was the last clergyman to be "locally surnamed". [1] His early education came from the parish priest, but he was sent at an early age to the cloister school at Evesham Abbey, and from there, at age eighteen, to Gloucester Hall, Oxford, as a Benedictine student.