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.

St. Frideswide, was born in Oxford, being Daugh∣ter to Didan the Duke thereof. 'Tis said that one Algarius a young Noble man was struck blind up∣on his attempting her Chastity. She was after∣wards Abbess of a Monastery erected by her Father in the same City, which since is become part of Christs Church, where her body lyeth buried. An. 1. Eliz. the Scholars of Oxford took up the body of the Wife of Pet. Martyr, who former∣ly had been disgracefully buried in a dung-hill, and interred it in the Tomb with the dust of this Saint, with this Inscription (as Saunders affirms) Here lyes Religion with Superstition: and there was more than 800 years betwixt their several deaths. St. Frideswide dying 739 and is remembred in the Romish Calender on 19 Oct.

St. Edwold, Younger brother to St Edmond King of the E. Angles, so cruelly Martyred by the Danes, and after his death, Edwold being his right Heir, declined the Crown and retired to Cornhouse-Monastery at Dorchester, where he was

interred and had in great veneration for his re∣puted Miracles after his death, which happen∣ed 871.

St. Edward the Confessor was born at Islip. He was afterwards King of England, whose Reign was attended with Peace and Prosperity. Fa∣mous for the first founding of Westminster Abbey, and for many other worthy Atchievements. He lived and dyed Single, never carnally conversing with St. Edith his Queen, which opened a Door for forreign Competitors, and occasioned the Conquest of this Nation. He died 1065. and ly∣eth buried in Westminster-Abbey.