ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN DECEMBER Saints celebrated on the 10th of December WELCOME! SAINT SWITHIN WELLS, MARTYR English martyr, born at Brambridge, Hampshire, about 1536; hanged at Gray’s Inn Lane, London, opposite his own house, December 10, 1591. He was the youngest of the five or six sons of Thomas Wells of Brambridge, by Mary, daughter of John Mompesson. It is not known when or whom he married. HE WAS RECONCILED TO THE CHURCH For many years he conformed, and received the Protestant communion, and for six years (probably 1576-1582) kept a school for young gentlemen at Monkton Farleigh, Wiltshire. On May 25, 1582, the Privy Council ordered a search to be made for him, and in that year or 1583 he was reconciled to the Church. HE CAME TO LONDON In 1585 he came to London where he took a house in Gray’s Inn Lane. On July 4, 1586, he was discharged from Newgate on bail given by his nephew, Francis Parkins of "Weton", Berkshire. On August 9, 1586, he wa...