Thomas Aldersey
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Thomas Aldersey was an English merchant, haberdasher, member of Parliament and philanthropist. A contemporary description placed him among the "wisest and best merchants in London", and he was particu
Thomas Aldersey, by Robert Peake the Elder (1588)
Aldersey was buried at St Boniface's Church, Bunbury, where he had endowed a preacher and curate
Marian exiles
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The Marian exiles were English Protestants who fled to continental Europe during the 1553–1558 reign of the Catholic monarchs Queen Mary I and King Philip. They settled chiefly in Protestant countries
Catherine Willoughby, Duchess of Suffolk, fleeing Catholic England with her husband Richard Bertie, her daughter Susan and a wet nurse
English book of Common Prayer
The Puritan by Augustus Saint Gaudens Springfield, Massachusetts DSC02513