continued for some hundreds of years, and bred a soldier in the Low Countries, where he attained to be Lieutenant Colonel." He was slain July 12, 1632, at the siege of Maestricht. His body was brought to England and buried in the Cathedral of his native city, where an inscription (quoted by Fuller), records both his valour and piety —
……………"for admidst all harmes.
He bore as much of piety as armes."
[See "Fuller's Worthies."]
Thomas Puttison,
LORD MAYOR OF LONDON IN 1584,
Was born at Foot's Cray. He was a member of the Drapers' Company, and was Sheriff of London in 1573.
[See "Fuller's Worthies," and "Stow's Survey of London."]
Ralph of Maidstone,
BISHOP OF HEREFORD, 1234,
Was so called, according to Fuller, from the place of his birth. Thomas Wike describes him as "Vir magnae literaturge et in Theologia nominatissimus." He purchased a house on Old Fish-street hill of the Monthalts of Norfolk, which became the inn or lodging of the Bishops of Hereford. He resigned his bishopric in 1239, and became a Franciscan, first at Oxford, then at Gloucester, where he died about the year 1244.
