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  ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN DECEMBER Saints celebrated on the 10th of December WELCOME! SAINT SWITHIN WELLS, MARTYR Saint Swithin Wells  Swithin Wells  [Swithun], gentleman, was the sixth son of Thomas Wells, Esq., of Brambridge, near Winchester, and brother to that worthy confessor, Gilbert Wells, Esq.. renowned for his immoveable constancy amongst many, and great persecutions which he suffered under queen Elizabeth for the catholic religion.  Mr Swithin was virtuously educated from his infancy, and carefully instructed in all manner of learning fitting his age and condition. He was good natured, pleasant in conversation, courteous, generous, courageous, and every way a gentleman in his comportment. He took to wife a virtuous gentlewoman, who was condemned with him, but did not die with him, being reserved to suffer a longer and more lingering martyrdom in prison. As Mr Wells grew more mature in age, so he did in virtues. And although he was much delighted in ha...

  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...