Ecclesfield.
[Footnote 6: "_In sanctorum numerum retulit vulgus._--Camden's _Brit._ in
Yorkshire. Amongst other profits received by the abbey of Leicester, in
1348, from oblations at the church of St. Martin in that town, occurs, _pes
Thomae Lancastriae respondebat, 6l. 10s._"--_History of Leicestershire_, vol.
i. p. 591.]
_Francis Moore_ (Vol. iii., p. 263.).--That such a personage really did
exist there can be little doubt. Bromley (in _Engraved Portraits, &c._)
gives 1657 as the date of his birth, and says that there was a portrait of
him by Drapentier _ad vivum_. Lysons mentions him as one of the {340}
remarkable men who, at different periods, resided at Lambeth, and says that
his house was in Calcott's Alley, High Street, then called Back Lane, where
he seems to have enlightened his generation in the threefold capacity of
astrologer, physician, and schoolmaster.