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.

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Title: 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.
Author: Sandys, George, 1578-1644.
Publication: London :: Printed for John Wright ... Thomas Passinger ... and William Thackary ...,; 1684.
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Saints.

St. Botolph (probably of English Nativity) lived at and gave Name to Botolphs Town (corruptly Boston) in this County.

Gilb. de Sempringham, of Noble Extraction, de∣formed in Body, but of Subtil Wit and great Cou∣rage, obtained Licence of the Pope to found those Hermophradite Convents of Monks, and Nuns under one roof, with no impregnable partitions. 'Tis said, he saw 13 Convents, 700 Monks, 1100 Nuns of his Order, of which the Convent Sempringham was the Prince residence. He died 1189.

Hugh born in Lincoln was stoln and crucified, when 9 years of Age, by the Jews in derision of Christ 1255.