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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Werburgh, D. to Wolpher Prince of Merica, was a Nun at Ely, whence returning to Wedon (for∣merly her Father's Palace) she turn'd that place into a Monastery. She had also Juridiction over the Monastery of Trekinghan in Linc. (where she was buried) the Gates of which place are fabulous∣ly reported to have open'd of themselves, when the Men of Hamburge (which was also within her Jurisdiction) came for, her Corps, to bury it ac∣cording to the direction given in her Will. 'Twas presumed that Werburgh (al. Wardburgh) would prove a Tatelary Patroness of the Town or place which possessed her body. Some have reported, that she hath driven awry all Geese from Weden, that they shall destroy no Grain thereabout. She died An. 675. her body was afterward translated to Chester, where H. Lupus built the Monastery of St. Werburghs, converted into a Cathedral by Henry 8.