| Description | From a drawing by J.S. Prout AD. St Werburgh was born about 650 and was the daughter of Wulfhere, King of Mercia. She died at Trentham February 3.699 where she was buried. The people of Hanbury carried off the body and interred it in the Chancel below the floor of their Church. Nine years after her death 708Ad it was removed from the grave to a shrine with great pomp In 875AD to save (cantinues on page 61) |