Crowded Heath. _Erica conferta._
Dedicated to _St. Eadburge_.
[411] Some make a profit of quarreling; some pick their livings out of
contentions and debate; some thrive and grow fat by gluttony; many are
bravely maintained by bribery, theft, cheating, roguery, and villainy;
but put all these together, and joine to them all sorts of people
else, and they all in general are drinkers, and consequently the
brewer’s clients and customers.
~December 13.~
_St. Lucy_, A. D. 304. _St. Jodoc_, or _Josse_, A. D. 669. _St.
Kenelm_, King, A. D. 820. _St. Aubert_, Bp. of Cambray and Arras, A.
D. 669. _B. John Marinoni_, A. D. 1562. _St. Othilla_, A. D. 772.
~St. Lucy.~
This saint is in the church of England calendar and the almanacs. She
was a young lady of Syracuse, who preferring a religious single life to
marriage, gave away all her fortune to the poor. Having been accused to
Peschasius, a heathen judge, for professing christianity, she was soon
after barbarously murdered by his officers.[412]