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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.
Mottingham is a district of south-east London, England, which straddles the border of the London Borough of Bromley, the London Borough of Lewisham and the Royal Borough of Greenwich. It is located south west of Eltham, 1.5 miles (2 kilometres). It was historically within the county of Kent.
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]
Memoirs Illustrative of the History and Antiquities of the County and City of York (1816) Joseph Hunter, South Yorkshire (a history of the Deanery of Doncaster) (1828–31) Edward Baines, History, Directory and Gazetteer of the County of York (1822–23) Thomas Allen, A New and Complete History of the County of York (1828–31)
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]
The history of the worthies of England, Volume 3 by Thomas Fuller; The Times; Dictionary of National Biography; The House of Commons, 1690–1715 by David Hayton, Eveline Cruickshanks, Stuart Handley 2002; A List of Wiltshire Sheriffs, John Edward Jackson (H. Bull, Devizes, 1856)
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.
[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]