Wavy Fleabane. _Inula undulata._
Dedicated to _St. Wilfred_.
~October 13.~
_St. Edward_, King and Confessor, A. D. 1066. _Sts. Faustus_,
_Januarius_, and _Martialis_, A. D. 304. _Seven Friar Minors_,
Martyrs, A. D. 1221. _St. Colman_, A. D., 1012. _St. Gerald_, Count of
Aurillac, or Orilhac, A. D. 909.
~Translation King Edward Confessor.~
This, in the church of England calendar and almanacs, denotes the day to
be a festival to the memory of the removal of his bones or relics, as
they are called by the Roman church, from whence the festival is
derived.
_Corpulency._
On the 13th of October, 1754, died at Stebbing in Essex, Mr. Jacob
Powell. He weighed nearly forty stone, or five hundred and sixty pounds.
His body was above five yards in circumference, and his limbs were in
proportion. He had sixteen men to carry him to his grave.[350]
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