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History of the Worthies of England (1662). [8] Fuller's best-known work. The Poems and translations in verse, including fifty-nine hitherto unpublished epigrams of Fuller and his much-wished form of prayer for the first time collected and edited with introduction and notes , by rev. Grosart, 257 pp., Liverpool, printed for private circulation ...
The Nine Worthies were also a popular subject for masques in Renaissance Europe. In William Shakespeare's play Love's Labour's Lost the comic characters attempt to stage such a masque, but it descends into chaos. The list of Worthies actually named in the play include two not on the original list, Hercules and Pompey the Great. Alexander, Judah ...
An early 17th-century painted frieze of the "Nine Worthies" was rediscovered in the 20th century. North Mymms House was a location for the 1983 film The Wicked Lady , starring Faye Dunaway as a bored aristocratic lady who takes up highway robbery, while the exterior appeared in Agatha Christie's Marple ' s The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side ...
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The term "Nine Worthies" was later used to refer to nine of the privy councillors of William III: the Whigs Devonshire, Dorset, Monmouth, and Edward Russell; and the Tories Caermarthen, Pembroke, Nottingham, Marlborough, and Lowther.
William Lambarde's Perambulation of Kent (completed 1570; published 1576) is generally acknowledged as the first example of the genre in England. It was followed by Richard Carew's Survey of Cornwall (1602), and William Burton's Description of Leicester Shire (1622), as well as a number of other projects (such as those of Sir William Pole, Thomas Westcote, and Tristram Risdon in Devon, and ...
Thomas Rees (1815), South Wales, Beauties of England and Wales, vol. 18, London: J. Harris; The British Atlas; comprising a series of maps of all the English and Welsh counties; and also plans of cities and principal towns; intended to illustrate and accompany 'The Beauties of England and Wales'. London: Vernor, Hood and Sharpe. 1810. OCLC ...
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