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Facts

Born 1562 • England
Died April 1633 (aged 71) • England
Subjects Of Study Reformation • England • bishop

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Francis Godwin, detail of an engraving by G. Vertue, derived from an earlier portrait, frontispiece to De Praesulibus Angliae, 1743
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Thomas Fuller, lithograph by C. Kell, 1874, after a portrait by an unknown artist, 1648
Thomas Fuller
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Painting of Samuel Johnson showing Johnson seated at a desk with a quill in hand and papers before him, wearing a brown coat and white wig.
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Thomas Babington Macaulay, detail of an oil painting by J. Partridge, 1840; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
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William Camden, oil painting by or after Marcus Gheeraerts the Younger; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
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A.N. Wilson
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Nicholas Sanders
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Roger Of Hoveden
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William Of Newburgh
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Henry Knighton
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Robert Of Gloucester
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Thomas Hearne
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Thomas Walsingham
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Ralph Of Coggeshall
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Edward Hall
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Hans Holbein the Younger: Portrait of Henry VIII of England
Henry VIII
king of England
John Foxe, detail of an oil painting by an unknown artist, 1587; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
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