Henry Bradshaw

was born in the antient Town of West-Chester, commonly called the City of Chester, and being much addicted to Religion and Learning, when a Youth, was received among the Benedictine Monks of S. Werbergs Monastery in the said City. Thence at riper years he was sent to Gloucester College, in the Suburb of Oxon, where after he had passed his course in Theology among the Novices of his Order, he returned to his Cell at S. Werberg, and in his elder years wrote, De antiquitate & magnificentia Urbis Cestriae.

Chronicon, &c. and translated from Latin into English, a Book which he thus entituled. The life of the glorious Virgin S. Werberg: Also many Miracles that God hath shewed for her. Lond. 1521. qu. He died in Fifteen hundred and thirteen (5. Henry 8) and was buried in his Monastery, 1513 leaving then behind him other matters to posterity, but the subject of which they Treat, I know not.