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Folkstone in Saxon, folcestane, Id est, Populi Lapis, or else, flostane, whiche signi∣fieth a rocke, or a flawe of stone.
AMongest the places lying on this shoare [ 640] (worthy of note) nexte after Douer, fol∣loweth Folkstone,* 1.1 where Eanfled, or ra∣ther Eanswide, the daughter of Ead∣balde, the sonne of Ethelbert, and in or∣der of succession, the sixte King of Kent, long since erected a religious Pryorie of women, not in the place where S. Peters Churche at Folkstone nowe standeth, but Southe, from thence, where the Sea ma∣ny yeares agoe hath swalowed and eaten it. And yet, least you shoulde thinke S. Peters Parishe churche to be voyde of reuerence, I must let you knowe of Noua Legenda Angliae, that before the Sea had deuoured all, S. Eanswides reliques were translated thither: The author of that worke reporteth many wonders of this woman, as that she lengthened a beame of that building thrée foote, when the Carpenters (missing in their mea∣sure) had made it so muche too shorte: That she haled and drew water, ouer the hilles against nature: That she forbad certain rauenous birdes the countrey, which before did muche harme there abouts: That she resto∣red the blynde, caste out the Diuel, and healed innume∣rable folkes of their infirmities. And therefore af∣ter her deathe, she was by the policie of the Popishe priestes, and follie of the common people, honoured for a Sainct.
* 1.2And no maruail at all, for it was vsuall in Papistrie, not onely to magnifie their Benefactours of all sortes, but to edifie also (so many of them at the leaste) as were