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William Laud 1573-1645 Archbishop of Canterbury

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Laud prospered under the patronage of the Duke of Buckingham and was appointed Archbishop of Canterbury in 1633. He supported the political and religious policies of Charles I and carried out Strafford’s policy of ‘Thorough’ in ecclesiastical affairs, working for uniformity of doctrine and practice. His attempt to impose uniformity on the church provoked armed resistance in Scotland. Parliament impeached and imprisoned him in 1640-1 and he was beheaded in 1645.

Artist: Sir Anthony Van Dyck

Size 16 x 10 cms

Price £10.00

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Martin Folkes 1690-1754

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The mathematician and antiquary Folkes was elected to the Royal Society at the age of 23, and later served as its President from 1741-53. He is known for cataloguing the historic gold and silver coins of England.

Artist: Thomas Hudson

Size 16 x 10 cms

Price £10.00

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Benjamin Hoadly 1676-1761

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Benjamin Hoadly (14 November 1676 – 17 April 1761) was an English clergyman, who was successively Bishop of Bangor, of Hereford, of Salisbury, and finally of Winchester. He is best known as the initiator of the Bangorian Controversy.

Artist: Nathaniel Hone

Size 14 x 10 cms

Price £10.00

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Jean Astruc 1684-1766

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Professor of medicine at Montpellier and Paris, who wrote the first great treatise on syphilis and venereal diseases, and also, with a small anonymously published book, played a fundamental part in the origins of critical textual analysis of works of scripture.

Artist: Louis Halbou.,

Size 15 x 9 cms

Price £10.00

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Peter the Wild Boy 1713-1785

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Peter was found in the Hertswold Forest by a party of hunters led by George I while on a visit to his Hanover homeland and brought to Great Britain in 1726 by order of his daughter Caroline of Ansbach Princess of Wales.

Artist: published by John Hinton,

Size 16 x 9 cms

Price £10.00

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Cosimo III de’ Medici Grand Duke of Tuscany 1642-1723

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Cosimo III de’ Medici was Grand Duke of Tuscany from 1670 until his death in 1723, the sixth and penultimate from the House of Medici. He reigned from 1670 to 1723, and was the elder son of Grand Duke Ferdinando II

Artist: Justus Sustermans

Size 30 x 20 cms

Price £28.00

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