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.

Since the Reformation.

Mary Dale (or Ramsey) Daughter of William Dale, became second Wife to Sir Thomas Ramsey, Grocer, and Lord Mayor of London, 1577. She founded two Fellowships, and two Scholarships in Peter-House in Cambridge, on which she would have have setled 500

pounds per Annum, on condition that it should be called the Colledge of Peter and Mary. Dr. Soams then Master of the House, refused, affirming, that Peter, who so long lived single, was now too old to have a Feminine Part∣ner. She dyed 1596, and lyeth buried in Christs-Church, in London.

Thomas White, D. D. was bred in Oxford, and a Preacher in the Reign of Q. Eliz. He had one Cure of Souls, but several dignities. False was the Aspersi∣on of his being an Usurer. Besides Benefactions to Christs-Church, and a Lecture in St. Pauls, London, he left 3000 pounds for the building of Sion-Colledge. He built there also an Almshouse for twenty poor Folk, al∣lowing them yearly 6 pounds a piece, and another at Bristol, which is better endowed. He dyed 1623.

Mr. Jo. Simson, Minister of St. Olaves Hart-street, London, perfected the aforesaid Colledge of Sion, build∣ing the Gate-house, with a fair Case for the Library, and endowing it with 60 pounds per Annum.

Mr. Richard Grigson, expended a great sum of Mo∣ney in new casting of the Bells of Christs-Church, in Bristol. He paid 105 pounds for his reputed delinquen∣cy in our Civil Wars.