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.
About this Item
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.
Rights/Permissions
This text has been selected for inclusion in the EEBO-TCP: Navigations collection, funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities. To the extent possible under law, the Text Creation Partnership has waived all copyright and related or neighboring rights to this keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above, according to the terms of the CC0 1.0 Public Domain Dedication ( http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). This waiver does not extend to any page images or other supplementary files associated with this work, which may be protected by copyright or other license restrictions. Please go to http://www.textcreationpartnership.org/ for more information.
Link to this Item
http://name.umdl.umich.edu/A62166.0001.001
Cite this Item
"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." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A62166.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 2, 2024.
Pages
Saints.
Margaret Alice Rich, born at Abbington* 1.1 in this County, and were successively Prioress of Catesby in Northamptonshir•…•… They were Sisters to St. Edmund. The former dy∣ing An. 1257. the latter. 1270. Both were Ho∣noured for Saints, and many Miracle•…•… were reported done at their Shrine. * 1.2 St. Edmund Son to Edw. Rich and Mabel his Wife, born at Abbington and bred in Oxford. Edmunds-Hall, in that University which probably, was not built by, but Named i•…•… Memory of him. He was Canon of Salisbury and afterwards Arch-bishop of Canterbury, but after 10 years, deserted this Function, being offended at the Ambition and Extortion of the Popes Legate i•…•…England; he therefore, going into France sighed ou•…•… the Remainder of his Life at Pontiniack, (some say at Soiffons) where he dyed An. 1240. Pope Innocen•••• IV Canonized him 6 years after his Death, that
descriptionPage 41
as some affirm) he might not be tormented with his •…•…host. Lewis King of France, a year after, tran∣••••ated his Corps, and three years after that, be∣••••owed a most Sumptuous Shrine of Gold, Silver and •…•…hrystal upon it. And the 16 of Nov. is the Festival •…•…ppointed for his Memorial.