I remember there is such a great bell at St. Germain's
Abbey at Paris, which they ring to the aforesayd purpose when it
thunders and lightens. Old Bartlemew and other old people of
Malmesbury had by tradition severall stories of miracles donn by St.
Adelm some whereof I wrott down heretofore; now with Mr. Anth. Wood at
Oxford. [St. Adelm, or more correctly Aldhelm, is mentioned in page
42, ante. His life was written by William of Malmesbury, and published
by the Rev. Henry Wharton, in his "Anglia Sacra." (fol. 1691.)- J. B.]
Methinkes it is pitie that Ela, daughter of [William] Longespe Earl of
Salisbury, should be here omitted. [See ante, p.70 ]
PRELATES.- Since the Reformation. - Alexander Hyde, LL.Dr., sonn of Sir
Laurence Hyde, and brother to Sir Robert Hyde, Lord Cheif Justice of
the King's Bench, was born, I believe, at Hele, in this county. He was
made Bishop of Salisbury 1665.
STATESMEN. - William Earle of Pembroke [the second of that name]. In
the east windowe of the south aisle of the church at Wilton is this
following inscription in gothick black letter:-"...
church was... by the vertuose..... wife to the right.... Sir Henry
Sidney, Knight of the Garter and Lord President of the Marches of
Wales, &c. In April 1580, the eight day of that moneth, was born
William Lord Herbert of Cardif, the first-born child to the noble
Henry Earle of Pembroke, by his most dear wife Mary the Countesse,
daughter to the forenamed Sir Henry and Lady Mary, whose lives
Almighty God long prosper in much happiness.
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