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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. Vicar of Bray (term) - Wikipedia

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    The parish alluded to in most versions of the song is Bray, Berkshire, which at the time was almost wholly rural and agrarian.An early textual source for the legend of a long-standing, resilient and pliable incumbent of the parish of Bray was provided by Thomas Fuller (d. 1661) in his Worthies of England. [2]

  4. 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]

  5. Robert Burton - Wikipedia

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    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.

  6. The Holy State and the Profane State - Wikipedia

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    The Holy State and the Profane State (Prophane in the original, sometimes shortened to The Holy State) is a 1642 book by English churchman and historian Thomas Fuller.It describes the holy state as existing in the family and in public life, gives rules of conduct, model "characters" for the various professions and profane biographies.

  7. William Winstanley - Wikipedia

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    The frontispiece to England's Worthies, 1684. 2. England's Worthies. Select lives of most eminent persons [including Flavius Julius Constantine and Cromwell], 1660, 8vo, "principally stolen from Lloyd", although free from signs of a partisan spirit (Brydges); 2nd ed., with the omission of the lives of the parliamentarians and substitution of ...

  8. Carshalton - Wikipedia

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    In his book History of the Worthies of England, the 17th century historian Thomas Fuller refers to Carshalton for its walnuts and trout. Land was primarily put to arable use and the river Wandle gave rise to manufacturing using water power. A water mill to grind corn was mentioned in the Domesday Book. By the end of the 18th century it was ...

  9. Henry IV, Part 1 - Wikipedia

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    Although the character is called Falstaff in all surviving texts of the play, there is abundant external and internal evidence that he was originally called Oldcastle. The change of names 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 ...

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