John Lydgate of Bury was a monk and poet, born in Lidgate, near Haverhill, Suffolk, England. Lydgate’s poetic output is prodigious, amounting, at a conservative count, to about 145,000 lines.:
Size 17 x 21 cms
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Richard Baker 1568-1645
Sir Richard Baker was a politician, historian and religious writer. He was the English author of the Chronicle of the Kings of England and other works
Size 16.5 x 23 cms
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Laurence Sterne 1713-1768
Laurence Sterne was an Irish novelist and an Anglican clergyman. He wrote the novels The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman and A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy, and also published many sermons, wrote memoirs, and was involved in local politics.
Artist: Reynolds
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Size 15 x 20 cms
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George Buchanan 1506-1582
George Buchanan was a Scottish historian and humanist scholar. According to historian Keith Brown, Buchanan was “the most profound intellectual sixteenth century Scotland produced.” His ideology of resistance to royal usurpation gained widespread acceptance during the Scottish Reformation
Artist: Harding
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Size 13.5 x 19 cms
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William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield 1705-1793
William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield, PC, SL was a British barrister, politician and judge noted for his reform of English law. Born to Scottish nobility, he was educated in Perth, Scotland, before moving to London at the age of 13 to take up a place at Westminster School.
Artist: W.Reid
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Size 11 x 17 cms
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Rev James Webb, 1707-1782 theologian
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Size 8 x 12 cms
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William Robertson FRSE FSA 1721-1793
Scottish historian, minister in the Church of Scotland, and Principal of the University of Edinburgh. “The thirty years during which [he] presided over the University perhaps represent the highest point in its history.”
Artist: Joshua Reynolds
Date:1837
Size 9 x 13 cms
Price £14.00
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John Bunyan 1628-1688
English writer and Puritan preacher best remembered as the author of the Christian allegory The Pilgrim’s Progress. In addition to The Pilgrim’s Progress, Bunyan wrote nearly sixty titles, many of them expanded sermons. Bunyan came from the village of Elstow, near Bedford
Size 13 x 19 cms
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William Cowper 1731-1800
William Cowper was an English poet and hymnodist. One of the most popular poets of his time, Cowper changed the direction of 18th century nature poetry by writing of everyday life and scenes of the English countryside. In many ways, he was one of the forerunners of Romantic poetry.
Artist: Hall
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Size 16 x 18 cms
Price £28.00
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Saint Edmund Campion, 1540-1581
English Catholic Jesuit priest and martyr. While conducting an underground ministry in officially Anglican England, Campion was arrested by priest hunters. Convicted of high treason, he was hanged, drawn and quartered at Tyburn.
Size 16 x 23 cms
Price £28.00
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