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Laurence Nowell

This article is about the antiquarian. For his cousin the priest, see Laurence Nowell (priest).
Nowell's self-portrait with an empty purse, from the lower left corner of the pocket map he prepared for William Cecil

Laurence (or Lawrence) Nowell (1530 – c. 1570) was an English antiquarian, cartographer and pioneering scholar of the Old English language and literature.


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