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16th-century English lawyers

  • Stephen GardinerStephen Gardiner entered the world in Bury St Edmunds on the 27th of July 1483, though historians still debate the exact year.
  • Francis BaconFrancis Bacon was born on the 22nd of January 1561 at York House near Strand in London. He entered Trinity College at the University of Cambridge on the 5th…
  • Thomas CromwellThomas Cromwell is thought to have been born by or around 1485 in Putney, then a village in Surrey providing a ferry service across the Thames upstream from…
  • Thomas LucyThomas Lucy arrived in the world on the 24th of April 1532. He was the eldest son and heir of William Lucy who died in 1551.
  • Thomas NorthThomas North entered the world between 9 and 10 o'clock at night on Friday, the 28th of May 1535. He arrived in the parish of St Alban, Wood Street, within…