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.

Writers.

Gilb. of Holland, Preacher went to Clarvaulx in Burgundy where he was St. Bernard's Scholar. He was a Judicious, Learned and Eloquent man, and one who studied much the Holy Scriptures. Trithem. He continued St. Bernard's Sermons. He flourished An. 1200. and was buried in Gistreaux in France.

Rog. of Crowland, a Benedictine, then Ab. of Friskney, wrote the Life of Th. Becket. He flouri∣shed 1214.

Elias de Trekingham, a Monk of Peterb••oough, D. D. in Oxford a learned Man and a Lover of History, wrote a Chronicle from 626 till 1270.

Hugh Kirksted, a Bernardine Monk (with one Serlo (made a Chronicle of the Cisternians from their first coming into England▪ when Walter, d'Espeke first founded their Abbey at Rivaux York-sh. He flouri∣shed 1220.

Will. Lidlington, a Carmelite and Provincial of his Order in England refusing to subscribe to the decisions of the Synode at Narbone, was excom∣municated and banished from his Native Country. Then he lived at Paris and at last was preferred Prov. of the Carmelites in Palestine. Yet he died in England and was buried at Stamford. 1390.

Nich. Stanford, a Bernardine a smart, solid and judicious Writer in that Age flourished 1310.

Jo. Bloxham, had great Employment under E. 2. in Embassies; an acute Man, tho the Country Folk in this County, when they intend to Character a Dull Person, use to say of him That he was born at Bloxham, the Town of his Nativity. He flou∣rished 1331.

Jo. Hornby, a Carmelite D. D. in Cambridg, vin∣dicated the Seniority of his Order against the Do∣minicans and carried away the Conquest. He flou∣rished 1374.

Jo. Boston of Bury, named from Boston and a Monk in Bury, wrote a Catalogue of Ecclesiastical Writers a Manuscript, whereof Bishop Ʋsher boasted he had the best Copy. He flourished 1410.

Lawr. Holebeck, a Monk in Ramsey, wrote an Hebrew Dictionary very exact, according to those dayes, wherein what ever was not understood was generally accounted Hebrew. He died 1410.

Bertram Fitzalin, B. D. in Oxford, then Carm. in Linc. where he built and furnished a fair Libra∣ry, at his own and his friends cost; adding some Books of his own writing thereunto. He died 1424.