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.

Saints.

Adelme, Son to Kenred, Nephew to Ina, King of the West Saxons, (after Forreign breeding) was Ab∣bot of Malmesbury 30 years. He was the first English∣man who ever wrote in Latine, the first that brought Poetry into England, and the first Bishop of Sherburn. He wrote a Book for the reducing the Britons to ob∣serve Easter, according to the Church of Rome. The Monks (those Babylonish Masons) have built such lying Wonders on his Memory, and have vomited out such lies (to his dishonour) that the loudness thereof has reached to Heaven; affirming that this Adelme, by his Prayers, stretched out a Beam of his Church (cut too short by the Carpenter) to the full proportion, and that he, at another time hung his Vestment on the Beams of the Sun, which miraculously supported the same. Coming to Rome to be Consecrated Bishop of

Sherburn, he reproved Pope Sergius his Fatherhood, for being a Father indeed to a Bastard, then newly born. And returning home, lived in great esteem, till the day of his death, which happened 709. His Corps was inshrined at Malmesbury, and had in great Vene∣ration.

Edith, natural Daughter of King Edgar, by the Lady Wolfhild, was a devout Abbess of Wilton. Be∣ing reproved by Bishop Ethelwold for her curious At∣tire, she told him, that God regarded the Heart more then the Garment, and that sins might be covered as well under Rags as Robes. 'Tis said, that after the slaugh∣ter of her Brother Edward, holy Dunstan had a design to make her Queen of England, so to defeat Ethelred the lawful Heir, had she not declined the proffer. She dyed 984, and is buried in the Church of Dioness at Wilton, of her own building. She was commonly cal∣led St▪ Edith the younger, to distinguish her from her Aunt, of whom before.