Of the Stone Albeston.
ALbeston is a stone of Archadie, in yron colour, hauing gotten his name of the fire, for that it being once set on fire, can neuer af∣ter be quenched or put out: Whereof in olde time was built that kind of worke Mechani∣call,
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ALbeston is a stone of Archadie, in yron colour, hauing gotten his name of the fire, for that it being once set on fire, can neuer af∣ter be quenched or put out: Whereof in olde time was built that kind of worke Mechani∣call,
whereas the Gentiles being once taken in sacriledge, dyed. Isidore sayth in his .xvj. booke, that in a certaine temple of Venus there was made and hoong vp such a Candlesticke, wherein was a light burning on that wise, that no tempest nor storme could put it out, & he beleueth that this Candlesticke had some∣what of Albeston beset within.