Anglorum speculum, or The worthies of England, in church and state Alphabetically digested into the several shires and counties therein contained; wherein are illustrated the lives and characters of the most eminent persons since the conquest to this present age. Also an account of the commodities and trade of each respective county, and the most flourishing cities and towns therein.

Exeter.

Exeter is of a Circular Form, Situated on the Top of a Hill, and since Nature is the Scavenger there∣of, is a very cleanly City. As for Manufactures, Cloathing is plyed in this City with great Industry and Judgment, the return of Serges alone in this Ci∣ty amounting weekly (tho Trading be now Sick) to 3000 Pounds. This City was highly Commen∣dable for its Loyalty when besieged by Perkin Wer∣beck in the Reign of H. 7. and by the Western Re∣bels in the Reign of E. 6. and in our time by the Parl. Forces in the Reign of King Ch. I. Their Valour was invincible in the two first, and their Loyalty unstained in the last; rewarded by their Enemies with the best made and best kept Articles. Of Buildings, the Ca∣thedral is a most Beautiful Structure. Here also is that Castle which (when R. 3. ask'd its Name) was called Rugement to the great astonishment of that Usurper, who had heard he should never prosper

after he had met Rugemont or rather Richmond (in K. 7.) In this City 13 Churches were exposed to sale by the Publick Cryer, and bought by well affected Persons who preserved them from Destruction. For Wonders, take this one, when Exeter was besieged by the Parl. Forces, so that only the South side to∣wards the Sea was open unto it, an incredible Num∣ber of Larks were found in that open quarter, which were sold for two pence the dozen, and tho it may be alledged that they were ••ighted thither by the shooting, or that (being Winter) they shelrted themselves in the Southern parts, or lastly that they were invited thither by some sort of Seeds that had been there lately sown, yet the Cause of Causes was Divine Providence providing a feast for many poor People.