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Title: Encomion heroicon: Englands worthies, or, The states champions in honor of his Excellency Sr. Thomas Fairfax knight the Parliaments generall. With the rest of those renowned gallants ingaged in the warre in the force of Kinge and Parliament. In a poem of 3 parts /by John Windover of London, apprentice.
Alternative Title: England's worthies.
State's champions.
Creator: Windover, John.
Fairfax, Thomas Fairfax, Baron, 1612-1671, dedicatee.
Sherring, Richard B., Esq., former owner.
Thoresby, Ralph, 1658-1725, former owner.
Contributor: Taylor, Francis, former owner.
Date Created and/or Issued: [ca. 1645]
Contributing Institution: UCLA, William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
Collection: Early Modern English Manuscripts from UCLA’s Clark Library
Rights Information: Public Domain
Material in the public domain. No restrictions on use.
Description: Scope/Content: Manuscript.
Scope/Content: Manuscript volume containing a fair copy of John Windover's England's worthies, dedicated to Sir Thomas Fairfax. The volume itself was once part of the collection of historian and antiquary Ralph Thoresby and appears to bear his autograph on the verso of the front free endpaper. It later was part of the library at the Bristol Baptist College, having been donated by wealthy local churchman Richard B. Sherring.
Condition: Bound in full vellum with gold tooling to covers and spine; traces of ribbon ties.
Type: text
Form/Genre: Poems
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Extent: [5], 56 leaves, bound ;21 cm.
Identifier: ark:/21198/n1r31z
MS.1963.008
Language: English
eng
Place: England--London
Provenance: With bookplate of Baptist College, Bristol on front paste-down endpaper; inscribed "Presented to the Baptists College Bristol by Richd. Sherring Esqr." on front free endpaper; "Mr Francis Taylor of Yorks gift to Ralph Thoresby" in Thoresby's hand on verso of front free endpaper; library shelfmark "Z.e.40" on endpapers and on spine.
Location: CLUW

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