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.

Proverbs.

1. A Middlesex Clown. Clown, i. e. Colonus one that Plougheth the Ground, of which Middlesex hath many of great Estates; and there are some of the Yeomantry in this County, as compleatly civil as any in England. 2. He that is a low Ebbe at Newgate, may soon be a float at Tiburn. This is too Satyri∣cal. Some will have Tiburn, so called from Tie and Burn, the poor Lollards having been the first who were tied up and burnt in that place. 3. When Tottenham-Wood is all on fire, Then Totten∣ham-street is nought but mire. That is, when that Wood of many 100 Acres on the top of a Hill hath a Mist like Smoak over it, generally foul weather followeth. 4. Tottenham is turned French. About the beginning of H. 8. French Mechanicks swarm'd in England to the great prejudice of English Artisans, which caused the Insurrection in London on ill-May∣day

1517. The City and Country Villages were filled with French Fashions and Infections. The Proverb is applied to such who contemning the Custom of their Country, make themselves more ridiculous by affecting forreign Humours and Habits.