John Earle

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Seventeenth-century English bishop John Earle is best known as the author of Microcosmographie, or a Peece of the World Discovered, which displayed his wit and humor. An Oxford alumnus, he had served as a tutor of Charles I and had been the bishop of Worcester and of Salisbury.

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Died on November 17, 1665
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