Field Speedwell. _Veronica agrestis._
Dedicated to _St. Barbatus_.
~February 20.~
_St. Tyrannio_, Bp. &c. A. D. 310. _Sts. Sadoth_, Bp. &c. A. D. 342.
_St. Eleutherius_, Bp. A. D. 532. _St. Mildred_, Abbess. _St.
Eucherius_, Bp. A. D. 743. _St. Ulrick._
_St. Mildred._
This saint was the first abbess of Minster, in the isle of Thanet,
founded by king Egbert about 670, in satisfaction for having murdered
his two nephews, Etheldred and Ethelbright; to which satisfaction he was
“miraculously terrified, by seeing a ray of bright light dart from the
heavens upon their grave.” In 1033, her remains were removed to St.
Augustine’s monastery at Canterbury, and venerated above all the relics
there, and worked miracles, as all saints’ relics did in those favoured
times. The churches of St. Mildred, Bread-street, and St. Mildred in the
Poultry, London, are dedicated to her.[5]
In St. Mildred’s church in the Poultry, Thomas Tusser, whose “Five
Hundred Points of Good Husbandrie” have been cited in former pages of
this work, was buried, and on his tomb this