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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.
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 Fuller – The History of the Worthies of England [14] John Heydon. The Harmony of the World [15] The English Physician's Guide [16] Adam Olearius – The Voyages & Travels of the Ambassadors (translated by John Davies, of Kidwelly) [17]
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]
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.
[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]
The earliest biography of Burton appeared in 1662, as part of Fuller's Worthies of England; this was followed by Anthony à Wood in his 1692 volume of Athenae Oxonienses. [124] Samuel Johnson was among the few 18th-century readers to recognise Burton's Anatomy. Into the 18th century, Burton experienced something of a lull in popularity.
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]