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.

Flaccus Albinus, (alias Alcuinus) born (probably) in York, (where he was advanced) was bred under Ven. Bede, and became a man of prodigious Learn∣ing. He was Master to Charles I. Emperour, who owed unto him the best part of his Title, the Great, being made Great in Arts and Learning by his Instru∣ctions. He founded the University in Paris, so that the Learning of the French was a Taper lighted at Our Torch. His Name puts me in mind of their malitious and silly Anagram upon Calvin, viz. Calvinus Lucia∣nus, who was an Atheist, though there were many wor∣thy persons of the same Name. The same Anagram is found in Alcuinus. He was first made Abbot of St. Augustines in Canterbury, and afterwards of St. Martins in the City of Tours in France, and dying 780 he was buried in a Convent appendant to his Monaste∣ry. Many of the Modern Saints in the Church of Rome, must modestly confess, that on a due and true estimate, Our Alcuinus was worth many scores of them, so great his Learning, and Holy his Conversation.

Sewal, bred in Oxford, was Scholar to St. Edmund, who was wont to say to him, Sewald, Sewald, thou wilt have many Afflictions, and dye a Martyr. Nor did he miss much of his Mark therein, though he met with Peace and Plenty at first, when Arch-Bishop of York; But afterwards opposing the Pope, who intruded one Jordan an Italian to be Dean of York, he was for his

contempt, Excommunicated. Note, that at the same time, there were 300 Benefices possessed by Italians, who did not only teach in the Church, but mis-teach by their lascivious and debauched Conversations. Let us now return to Sewald, who never returned in the Popes favour, but dyed of grief, in the state of Excommuni∣cation, 1258. Yet was he reputed a Saint in Vulgar Estimation.