The history and antiquities of Boston .. . vedto be not entirely divested of that power, although they hadbeen of flesh. The termination of this saints name seems toindicate a German origin ; but that is a matter too remote tomerit attention here. However, it is said that the remains of the**holy man were entombed in St. Edmunds Monastery, at Bury,concerning whom it was superstitiously told that the monks of thatplace, when they wanted rain, carried about a coffin in procession, con-taining the bones of St. Botolph. How soon this practice fell into dis-use is not mentioned ; but it probably di
The history and antiquities of Boston .. . vedto be not entirely divested of that power, although they hadbeen of flesh. The termination of this saints name seems toindicate a German origin ; but that is a matter too remote tomerit attention here. However, it is said that the remains of the**holy man were entombed in St. Edmunds Monastery, at Bury,concerning whom it was superstitiously told that the monks of thatplace, when they wanted rain, carried about a coffin in procession, con-taining the bones of St. Botolph. How soon this practice fell into dis-use is not mentioned ; but it probably did after a few failures of certainwell-known signs of rain, in the observance of which the first moverswere, or might have been, better skilled than their immediate suc-cessors. From the earliest accounts that can be found of the English Boston,it is supposed to have been founded by St. Botolph, whom Bede, whowas nearly cotemporary with him, denominates a pious Saxon, aboutA. D. For a long series of ages little is known about it. For. * Johnson, Wonder-working Providence, 38. f The name of Botolph, with variation ofspellings, is met with in many old writers,and, according to Camden, it is derived fromthe Saxon noun boat, and ulph, help, becauseBotolph was the tutelar saint of mariners.— See Thompsons Collections, p. 223. Rish-anger, who wrote about 1312, speaks, in hisChronicle, of Thomas filius Jordani de Bo-tolestone. — See Pub. Camd. Sac. xv., p. 72. Lambarde, who wrote about or before 1577,a little earlier than Camden, says it was thencalled Bostonstow, though commonly andcorruptly called Boston.—Alphabetical De-script., &c., p. 38, 4to, 1730. I He also founded a priory at Colchester, inEssex, the ruins of which are still [1810] tobe seen, though its principal demolitionoccurred in 1648, during the siege of Colches-ter by Sir Thomas Fairfax. —Braylcy and Brit- 102 HISTORY OF BOSTON. [1630. near a thousand years succeeding its foundation, few of the vicissitudes
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