St. Albans, an old historic city of Hertfordshire, on an eminence by the Ver, a small stream, which separates it from the site of the ancient Verulamium; has a splendid ancient abbey church, rebuilt in 1077; industries include brewing, straw-plaiting, silk-throwing, &c.; scene of two famous battles (1455 and 1461) during the Wars of the Roses.
Population (circa 1900) given as 13,000.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Saint * St. Aloysius