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situated on the bay formed by St. Beesʹ Head, founded by Dr. Law, Bishop of Chester, in 1816. St. Beesʹ was so called from a nunnery founded here in 650, and dedicated to the Irish saint named Bega. A “man of wax” is a “Beesʹ man.”
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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