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side, drawing up three pamphlets in 1644 in support of the king's cause. It is said that his house was searched and his papers destroyed by the
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reign. His mother, Joan Dalton, was the daughter and heiress of Eldred Dalton of Mores Place, Hadham. Francis grew up in the Manor of
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490:(Edinburgh, 1857) was embellished with new illustrations by CH Bennett and WA Rogers These are reproduced in the complete edition (1874) of Quarles included in the "Chertsey Worthies Library" by
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In 2022 some kitchen re-fitters found murals in a flat on
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was immensely popular with readers, but the critics of the 17th and 18th centuries had no mercy on
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and others. The forty-five prints in the last three books are borrowed from the designs by
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disrespectfully alluded to him as he "that makes God speak so big in's poetry."
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Grosart, LL.D., F.S.A., The Rev. Alexander B. (1880).
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Enchyridion, containing Institutions Divine and Moral
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