Newes
out
of
Cheshire
concerning
the
New
found
Well
.
IT
is
a
well
knowne
trueth
,
that
the
giuer
of
all
good
blessings
doth
diuersly
bestowe
the
same
vpon
mortall
creatures
here
on
earth
,
and
in
the
bestowing
thereof
,
hath
alwaies
obserued
a
distinction
or
difference
of
persons
,
times
,
and
seasons
,
as
reuealing
some
at
one
time
and
some
at
another
,
and
how
some
which
haue
been
hidden
and
vnknowne
to
all
ages
heretofore
past
,
haue
been
shewed
to
men
of
latter
daies
.
Among
all
other
benefits
extraordinarilie
throwne
downe
from
that
bountifull
hand
,
what
hath
oftener
been
felt
in
Mans
comfort
,
than
the
finding
of
remedies
against
diseases
,
and
medicines
against
the
fraile
infirmities
of
our
corruptible
bodies
?
The
proofe
hereof
is
the
well
knowne
inuention
of
so
many
new
deuised
easements
and
helps
for
all
manner
of
Maladies
,
and
we
see
that
as
new
and
new
distempers
doe
from
age
to
age
still
bring
forth
infirmities
,
not
seene
nor
heard
of
former
times
;
so
men
haue
been
inspired
euermore
with
giftes
and
graces
of
that
excellencie
,
whereby
they
haue
found
out
,
vsed
and
applied
profitable
remedies
,
neuer
formerly
inuented
nor
prescribed
.
And
of
all
things
in
the
world
found
to
be
medicinable
and
helpfull
to
Mans
health
,
no
one
thing
may
challenge
so
great
a
preeminence
(
as
an
instrumentall
cause
)
as
Water
,
wherein
euen
from
the
worlds
beginning
hath
euer
been
found
most
excellent
soueraigntie
of
preseruation
and
recouerie
of
mens
decaied
health
,
and
remedie
against
seuerall
diseases
.
And
as
the
vnspeakeable
Prouidence
created
Water
at
the
first
to
be
one
of
the
chiefe
meanes
to
nourish
and
feede
the
bodies
of
such
creatures
as
were
to
liue
by
food
and
sustenance
:
so
hath
he
miraculouslie
at
diuers
times
indued
speciall
waters
to
be
effectuall
against
mens
infirmities
:
a
thing
most
apparant
in
all
,
both
sacred
and
humane
stories
and
testimonies
.
Naamans
washing
him
seuen
times
in
Iordan
at
the
Prophets
commandement
,
to
be
healed
of
his
leprosie
,
implieth
the
fitnes
of
Water
in
the
curing
of
so
grieuous
a
disease
,
and
albeit
the
Almightie
power
,
who
indeede
performed
that
cure
miraculouslie
,
could
as
well
haue
done
it
by
the
vse
of
any
other
matter
,
yet
herein
was
shewed
the
fit
vse
and
application
of
Water
aboue
all
other
things
,
for
the
effecting
of
that
glorious
worke
:
and
may
not
the
like
be
affirmed
touching
that
lame
Cripple
in
the
Gospell
,
which
had
lyen
so
long
by
the
Poole
,
wanting
meanes
to
be
put
into
it
,
whereof
he
was
still
preuented
by
those
who
thrust
in
before
him
for
recouerie
of
infinite
infirmities
?
Besides
the
peculiar
graces
bestowed
on
some
speciall
Waters
vpon
extraordinarie
occasions
,
what
simple
iudgement
cannot
obserue
that
the
vse
of
pure
and
good
waters
hath
in
all
ages
,
at
all
times
,
in
all
places
,
and
with
all
persons
been
of
such
estimation
,
that
(
to
speake
nothing
,
that
nothing
medicinable
or
needfull
can
serue
mans
necessitie
without
some
necessarie
helpe
of
water
)
bathing
and
washing
hath
been
as
the
common
and
readiest
,
so
the
most
effectuall
and
soueraigne
preseruatiue
of
health
and
remedie
against
infirmities
;
and
hath
thoroughout
the
whole
world
been
practised
not
alone
by
vulgar
people
,
or
young
vnlearned
feeble
,
sicke
,
or
poore
persons
,
but
by
men
most
wise
,
learned
,
mightie
,
rich
;
yea
,
Kings
,
Emperors
,
and
greatest
Monarkes
of
the
earth
.
To
what
purpose
(
will
it
happilie
be
asked
)
is
this
far
fetcht
preamble
placed
in
the
front
of
so
slender
a
discourse
?
Truly
,
not
that
I
would
here
trouble
my selfe
to
proue
a
matter
that
perhaps
is
not
doubted
of
,
or
which
no
man
meanes
to
make
question
of
,
but
onely
to
this
ende
:
euen
that
hauing
prepared
the
mindes
of
such
to
whom
these
newes
shall
be
imparted
,
to
yeeld
to
this
reason
,
and
remember
it
as
a
truth
,
that
extraordinarie
remedies
are
often
euen
wonderfullie
reuealed
to
Mankinde
for
helpe
of
their
diseases
,
and
that
the
most
excellent
instrument
which
hath
most
oft
conuaied
that
soueraigne
good
to
men
,
hath
been
and
is
,
some
speciall
water
;
they
may
with
better
approbation
conceiue
the
report
of
our
Newes
of
the
New-found
Well
,
and
with
gentler
credulitie
imbrace
the
benefit
,
and
beleeue
the
trueth
.
The
famous
Countie
Palatine
of
Cheshire
can
boast
of
many
excellencies
,
wherein
a
countrie
either
for
profite
or
pleasure
may
be
tearmed
happie
.
Among
other
the
ornaments
thereof
,
I
cannot
but
greatly
commend
a
most
stately
,
large
,
and
as
I
may
so
tearme
it
,
a
princely
Forrest
(
though
there
be
others
also
within
the
shire
)
situate
euen
in
the
chiefest
and
best
knowne
parts
of
the
Countie
,
called
the
Forrest
of
Delamere
,
belonging
to
her
Maiestie
.
The
same
bordering
towards
the
West
and
Northwest
side
,
neere
to
Merzey
,
an
arme
of
the
Ocean
,
in
many
old
records
of
this
countie
,
is
called
the
Forrest
of
Mare
mondiam
,
but
is
best
knowne
,
and
hath
been
very
auncientlie
called
by
the
name
formerlie
mentioned
.
Giue
me
leaue
a
little
to
describe
vnto
you
the
same
Forrest
,
because
in
it
is
the
Well
whereof
I
intreate
.
There
are
about
the
middest
of
the
Forrest
certaine
ruinous
walles
of
stone
,
some
inclosures
,
and
the
prints
of
an
auncient
situation
,
which
as
well
common
report
of
the
countrie
,
as
also
the
testimonies
of
the
best
writers
of
Englands
antiquities
doe
affirme
to
haue
been
a
Citie
(
and
it
should
seeme
indeede
to
haue
been
a
walled
Towne
)
there
founded
and
built
by
Eadelfleda
a
Queene
of
Merceland
:
and
the
place
to
this
day
is
called
Eades
burie
,
whereof
the
whole
hundred
(
being
a
seuenth
part
of
the
shire
)
reteyneth
still
the
name
.
The
Borrough
or
Towne
being
now
vtterly
decaied
and
gone
;
there
remaineth
onely
vpon
the
top
of
the
vtmost
height
within
that
situation
,
a
proper
built
lodge
,
called
the
Chamber
,
and
hath
been
for
the
most
part
maintained
and
inhabited
by
a
famous
race
of
Gentlemen
(
the
Dones
)
of
whome
for
certaine
hundreds
of
yeares
,
Knights
and
Squires
of
that
surname
(
hauing
still
by
inheritance
been
masters
of
the
game
or
chiefe
Forresters
there
)
haue
left
good
remembrances
of
their
worthes
and
great
reputation
to
all
posteritie
:
and
is
now
possessed
by
a
worshipfull
Gentleman
,
Iohn
Done
Esquire
:
whom
the
rather
I
am
bolde
here
by
name
to
mention
,
because
of
his
charitable
disposition
and
gentlemanlike
furtherance
of
the
benefit
of
this
Well
,
to
the
reliefe
of
all
sorts
of
people
that
seeke
for
helpe
by
it
.
About
a
mile
and
halfe
from
the
chamber
toward
the
Southwest
side
of
the
forrest
is
situate
the
Newfound
Wel
.
All
the
Westerly
and
Southerly
side
of
the
forrest
is
mountanous
,
and
full
of
vaste
vneuen
hilles
,
scattringly
beautified
with
many
Okes
(
yet
most
of
them
shrubby
and
of
low
growth
)
and
not
fewe
queaches
&
thicks
of
Hull
and
Hauthornes
,
the
hils
themselues
for
the
most
part
distinguished
by
galles
and
gutters
made
by
waters
falling
from
springs
and
other
places
,
which
in
continuance
of
time
haue
worne
and
eaten
deepe
passages
.
In
the
side
of
one
of
these
hilles
,
whose
declining
lyeth
almost
full
vpon
the
North
and
North-east
,
ariseth
the
spring
,
head
,
and
fountaine
it selfe
now
called
the
New
found
Well
:
the
same
insensibly
issuing
from
firme
ground
at
the
roote
or
foote
of
a
shrubbie
hull
or
hollintree
,
yet
so
as
the
same
hull
standing
at
the
South-west
corner
of
the
Well
there
is
some
twentie
inches
distance
betweene
them
.
The
Well
or
Cesterne
being
bordered
with
three
or
foure
flagge
stones
(
as
the
compasse
of
it
without
breaking
any
earth
about
it
would
giue
leaue
)
is
almost
foure
square
,
conteyning
South
and
North
about
30.
inches
,
West
and
East
about
26.
inches
.
Whether
the
Spring
issue
vpright
from
the
bottome
,
or
from
the
one
side
,
or
from
all
sides
,
it
is
not
perceiued
.
I
rather
iudge
it
comes
at
the
South
side
(
which
is
the
backe
of
it
,
and
beares
against
the
descent
of
the
hill
.
)
If
it
should
bubble
forth
at
the
bottome
(
as
in
many
other
Welles
I
haue
seene
)
this
water
being
so
cleare
it
might
be
easily
perceiued
,
especially
the
Spring
being
free
,
and
yeelding
continuall
issue
in
a
good
proportion
.
I
haue
seene
indeed
many
orderly
Springes
farre
exceede
it
in
strength
and
bignesse
of
gush
,
yet
haue
I
not
known
any
to
keepe
a
more
certain
and
vniforme
course
,
nor
deliuer
his
water
in
so
close
and
vnperceiueable
manner
,
as
this
Well
doth
.
The
force
or
streame
which
the
Spring
is
well
able
to
maintaine
,
is
about
so
much
water
as
you
may
imagine
would
continually
runne
at
ful
through
a
pipe
or
tronke
,
whose
concaue
or
hollow
were
three
or
foure
inches
compasse
.
The
descent
of
the
hill
beneath
the
Well
Northward
is
steepe
,
and
the
waste
water
falling
North
from
the
fountaine
hath
both
of
it
owne
course
,
and
shortly
meeting
with
some
other
rilles
,
worne
the
ground
to
a
great
hollow
dingle
,
which
carrieth
them
downe
to
a
brooke
at
the
foote
of
the
hill
,
by
which
they
are
conueyed
to
a
great
poole
of
Sir
Iohn
Egertons
neere
little
Budworth
,
which
serueth
Olton
Milles
:
so
that
,
albeit
the
Spring
sendeth
his
water
at
the
first
Northerly
,
yet
within
lesse
then
one
quarter
of
a
miles
labour
it
windeth
about
the
hill
skirte
,
and
then
holdeth
his
course
full
Southerly
.
What
the
vaines
of
the
Earth
about
it
may
be
,
or
from
what
manner
of
mixture
the
Spring
should
issue
,
I
dare
not
take
vpon
me
to
set
downe
,
hauing
neither
skill
to
iudge
of
such
matters
,
nor
hauing
had
meanes
as
yet
to
procure
search
made
to
finde
the
nature
of
the
mould
whence
it
springes
,
which
I
know
would
be
greatly
materiall
to
such
as
haue
skill
and
knowledge
how
to
iudge
of
the
power
and
efficacie
of
the
water
thereby
.
All
that
I
can
say
in
this
respect
,
is
that
the
vpper
part
or
face
of
the
earth
there
seemes
to
be
a
stiffe
clay
,
insomuch
that
the
resorters
thither
hauing
made
some
one
or
two
slender
weake
dammes
to
stay
the
water
,
halfe
a
dozen
yards
or
more
beneath
the
fountaine
,
there
are
by
that
meanes
two
small
lakes
or
pooles
,
wherein
poore
people
,
when
they
are
disposed
,
do
bathe
and
wash
themselues
.
Which
pooles
though
they
be
verie
vnfit
for
that
purpose
,
being
verie
vnhandsomely
,
thicke
&
muddy
with
the
clay
and
soyle
of
the
earth
,
yet
they
shew
the
fitnesse
and
commodious
means
how
cesternes
or
some
handsome
prouisions
might
be
made
,
either
open
or
close
,
for
the
people
of
all
sortes
to
vse
their
best
benefit
,
and
that
so
farre
from
the
head
of
the
Spring
,
and
so
much
beneath
the
bodie
and
seate
of
the
fountaine
it selfe
,
that
there
were
no
perill
by
breaking
or
digging
the
ground
,
to
worke
anie
annoiance
or
hinderance
to
the
vertue
of
the
Spring
or
water
thereof
.
There
be
many
that
at
their
first
taste
of
the
water
,
doe
confidently
affirme
they
feele
as
it
were
some
relish
or
smacke
of
an
allome-like
composition
;
and
not
a
fewe
I
haue
heard
censure
,
that
there
seemes
to
them
a
little
resemblance
of
the
tast
of
Licoris
;
some
compare
it
to
some
other
things
:
for
my
part
(
because
I
am
purposed
to
auerre
nothing
herein
,
but
what
I
am
verilie
perswaded
to
be
true
)
as
I
can
allow
of
no
mans
taste
to
be
authenticall
in
this
point
,
vnlesse
I
could
also
find
it
in
mine
own
,
so
truly
I
must
confesse
that
it
is
a
water
different
from
manie
other
Spring
waters
in
taste
,
and
the
most
pleasantest
in
drinking
of
anie
that
I
haue
euer
tasted
,
onely
the
relish
is
to
me
of
no
especiall
thing
that
I
can
name
,
and
the
operation
such
as
in
my
iudgement
,
and
by
experiment
vpon
mine
owne
and
manie
others
bodies
,
it
neuer
offendeth
with
cold
or
heauy
weight
in
a
mans
stomack
,
as
the
most
sorts
of
waters
vsually
doe
.
It
is
one
thing
most
notorious
and
worthie
to
be
so
,
that
no
persons
of
anie
sort
whatsoeuer
,
which
take
it
in
anie
good
quantitie
,
but
can
and
do
report
that
they
find
difference
in
the
operation
of
it
from
other
waters
,
and
most
commonly
it
is
obserued
that
to
such
as
are
vnhealthfull
,
and
grieued
with
some
infirmitie
,
they
are
sure
by
the
water
to
finde
in
themselues
some
alteration
:
to
such
as
are
healthfull
and
verie
sound
of
bodie
,
it
either
worketh
no
motion
at
all
,
or
if
anie
,
it
looseth
the
bellie
,
and
giueth
most
gentle
and
hurtlesse
purgations
.
That
there
may
be
some
alluminous
mixture
within
the
ground
,
by
which
the
Spring
hath
his
passage
,
one
reason
may
be
that
quick
piercing
nature
which
is
found
in
it
,
both
in
the
inward
receipt
of
it
,
and
the
outward
application
to
greene
wounds
and
cuts
,
vpon
which
with
wonderfull
speed
it
worketh
effectually
.
And
besides
,
though
I
neuer
made
triall
my selfe
,
the
generall
report
is
that
by
reason
of
a
secret
sharpe
tartnesse
that
is
in
it
,
the
water
will
turne
or
breake
milke
,
whereinto
it
is
put
immediately
.
An other
reason
of
the
same
efficacy
may
be
this
,
which
I
can
well
testifie
vpon
mine
owne
knowledge
,
that
it
skowreth
and
cleanseth
anie
thing
which
is
washed
in
it
,
more
then
anie
water
that
I
haue
knowne
,
insomuch
that
it
is
of
exceeding
vse
for
the
keeping
white
and
faire
the
face
and
handes
,
better
and
more
pleasing
to
many
then
the
vse
of
sopes
,
washing
balles
or
such
other
mixtures
,
neither
so
wholsome
nor
so
pleasant
as
this
naturall
pure
spring
water
.
This
may
be
sufficient
for
the
situation
and
description
of
the
Well
,
will
you
now
heare
the
manner
of
finding
it
.
In
the
ende
of
the
last
winter
quarter
,
and
beginning
of
this
spring
time
nowe
past
,
here
in
these
partes
(
as
I
thinke
elsewhere
)
there
raigned
an
extreame
contagion
of
sicknesse
,
not
infectious
,
yet
so
generall
,
as
few
escaped
without
some
or
other
touch
of
vnhealthfulnesse
.
Among
other
sorts
of
infirmities
,
many
were
tormented
with
hot
burning
Agues
and
Feuers
of
all
kindes
,
which
Agues
the
vulgar
people
here
(
especially
when
they
light
on
children
or
young
folkes
,
or
that
they
hold
them
but
intermissiuely
,
so
that
the
patient
lies
not
by
it
)
call
it
the
Fittes
.
One
Iohn
Greeneway
of
Vtkinton
an
honest
substantiall
countriman
of
good
credit
and
well
reputed
,
being
about
fiftie
yeeres
of
age
or
somewhat
more
,
was
about
the
end
of
March
last
past
troubled
with
the
Fittes
;
he
tried
such
ordinarie
remedies
as
the
countrie
experience
would
offer
,
but
found
no
abatement
of
his
disease
,
at
length
he
cals
to
mind
an
experiment
,
that
sixteene
or
seuenteene
yeeres
now
past
in
the
like
necessitie
had
relieued
him
:
and
this
it
was
.
Being
at
that
time
vexed
with
the
Fits
,
and
finding
no
ease
nor
remedie
for
it
,
he
thought
good
to
repaire
to
a
learned
Phisition
at
that
time
lying
at
the
Citie
of
Chester
,
which
is
about
sixe
or
seuen
miles
distant
from
Greenwaies
house
.
The
Phisition
tooke
good
regard
of
the
mans
infirmity
and
being
a
man
both
learned
and
conscionable
prescribed
to
him
,
that
he
should
get
him
home
,
keepe
him
warme
,
vse
good
diet
,
and
not
to
omit
to
walke
forth
in
the
mornings
,
to
finde
out
some
good
pure
spring
water
,
to
drinke
of
it
,
to
bathe
and
wash
himselfe
with
it
,
and
herein
he
doubted
not
he
should
recouer
his
health
shortly
.
I
haue
hereat
not
a
little
beene
troubled
in
mine
owne
opinion
to
resolue
in
any
probable
appearance
,
what
to
deliuer
touching
the
Phisitions
direction
,
as
whether
he
might
speake
this
of
an
excellencie
of
knowledge
,
or
hauing
before
that
time
either
read
in
some
vnknowne
memoriall
,
or
had
vnderstanding
of
peculiar
vertue
to
be
in
that
or
some
other
water
thereabout
,
or
that
he
spake
in
generalitie
,
meaning
that
anie
pure
Spring
water
were
good
for
that
mans
infirmitie
;
or
whether
the
great
guider
of
al
mans
inuention
for
general
benefits
did
not
herein
vse
the
Phisitions
prescription
,
as
a
meanes
of
that
future
benefit
he
meant
to
bestow
vpon
poore
destressed
creatures
:
which
last
surmize
,
I
verily
hold
most
answerable
to
my
owne
satisfaction
,
yet
so
,
as
I
leaue
it
with
the
rest
to
each
mans
particular
choice
and
approbation
.
Howsoeuer
it
were
,
Greeneway
being
well
acquainted
with
the
Springs
&
al
other
commodities
of
the
Forrest
,
had
soone
found
out
this
prettie
purling
fountaine
,
both
for
puritie
and
situation
(
as
he
thought
)
fittest
to
answere
the
Phisitions
direction
,
and
there
by
drinking
,
washing
and
accomplishing
what
he
was
commaunded
,
in
verie
shorte
time
hee
was
of
his
Ague
throughly
cured
.
Since
that
time
till
this
present
yeere
he
hath
liued
healthfull
and
sound
,
but
being
againe
surprized
with
the
same
griefe
,
necessitie
then
enforcing
the
remembrance
of
his
former
helpe
,
he
repaired
to
his
auncient
medicine
againe
,
where
a
short
triall
had
soone
taught
him
,
that
this
was
a
remedie
of
greater
regard
then
he
formerly
made
of
it
:
And
thereupon
tooke
better
notice
&
aduisement
of
it
then
before
he
had
done
.
It
happened
within
the
space
of
one
moneth
after
this
,
that
one
of
his
sonnes
,
and
afterwards
a
second
,
and
then
a
third
were
successiuely
taken
with
the
Fittes
,
and
each
of
them
seuerally
eased
and
holpen
by
the
vse
of
this
Well
,
according
to
their
fathers
direction
,
as
he
himselfe
had
done
before
them
.
The
neighbours
neere
vnto
him
hearing
and
finding
the
truth
of
this
successe
,
began
to
resort
to
the
Well
,
as
either
the
same
sicknes
or
anie
other
griefe
gaue
them
cause
,
and
when
the
experience
of
many
confirmed
the
vertue
thereof
to
extend
to
giue
helpe
and
ease
,
not
onely
to
Agues
and
other
inward
diseases
,
but
also
to
be
medecinable
to
al
manner
of
outward
grieuances
and
sores
,
it
drew
people
in
verie
great
numbers
to
repaire
thither
,
and
the
more
trials
were
put
in
execution
,
the
more
credit
and
account
it
hath
euer
since
gotten
.
If
I
thought
it
not
a
thing
both
ridiculous
and
in
some
sort
infamous
,
to
spread
in
peoples
eares
vaine
tales
and
incertainties
,
I
would
then
haue
stuffed
this
discourse
with
such
surmises
,
as
perhaps
would
go
more
currant
and
plausible
to
many
,
then
a
bare
recitall
of
the
truth
touching
the
finding
of
the
New
found
Well
.
And
vpon
this
conceit
I
haue
thought
fit
to
omit
the
laying
forth
of
sundrie
opinions
,
as
they
nowe
are
deliuered
among
common
persons
,
and
some
others
of
good
note
touching
the
same
.
I
spare
to
discourse
vnto
you
what
couiectures
are
daily
cast
abroad
,
that
the
same
Well
should
haue
beene
of
knowne
,
and
notable
vertue
in
the
daies
of
the
afore
named
Queene
Eadilflede
,
and
vsed
by
her
meanes
and
maintenance
to
the
generall
reliefe
of
people
in
those
daies
,
but
afterwards
in
the
outrages
and
oppressions
which
the
conquering
Danes
made
in
the
Countrey
,
it
was
closed
and
stopped
vp
to
preuent
the
benefite
which
that
common
rigorous
enemie
might
haue
receiued
by
it
:
but
because
I
finde
no
such
thing
recorded
in
any
remembrance
that
I
reade
or
heare
of
,
I
leaue
the
credit
thereof
to
such
proofe
as
they
can
make
,
who
would
perswade
the
world
that
it
is
so
.
I
haue
heard
likewise
some
persons
of
no
meane
account
report
,
that
there
are
within
this
Countie
some
credible
recordes
which
might
be
produced
,
wherein
mention
is
made
of
an
auncient
Well
,
within
the
precincts
of
Delamere
,
that
many
yeares
past
was
esteemed
of
great
vertue
and
efficacie
,
insomuch
as
the
same
being
dedicated
by
the
first
christians
which
had
vse
thereof
to
holy
Saint
Stephen
,
the
same
still
beareth
name
(
in
the
said
records
)
of
Saint
Stephens
Well
,
and
by
circumstances
therein
gathered
,
it
is
said
that
this
late
found
Well
may
be
likely
to
be
the
same
:
whereof
hauing
no
farther
proofe
,
then
as
yet
I
can
attaine
vnto
,
I
leaue
it
as
doubtfull
as
the
former
.
But
I
will
proceede
with
the
further
explication
of
the
late
effects
of
this
Water
,
which
since
the
great
repaire
and
concourse
which
people
of
all
sorts
haue
made
vnto
it
,
is
found
to
bee
profitable
,
not
onely
against
Agues
,
which
was
the
first
virtue
reuealed
in
it
,
but
also
against
all
manner
of
coldes
,
stoppings
,
grypings
,
gnawings
,
collicks
,
aches
,
ruptures
and
inward
infirmities
,
and
no
lesse
soueraigne
against
sores
and
outward
anguishes
,
wounds
,
swellings
,
vlcers
,
festers
,
impostumes
and
hurts
of
the
seuerall
ioynts
and
members
;
besides
that
,
it
hath
done
no
small
number
of
straunge
cures
,
against
sorenes
of
eyes
and
eares
,
blindnesse
,
deafenesse
,
lamenesse
,
stifnesse
of
sinnewes
,
numbnesse
,
weakenesse
and
feeblenesse
,
all
which
I
am
able
to
auerre
and
proue
,
by
vndeniable
demonstration
from
the
seuerall
effects
of
infinite
numbers
of
people
,
that
haue
giuen
witnesse
thereof
in
these
three
or
foure
moneths
now
last
past
.
I
call
them
infinite
numbers
,
because
indeede
the
resort
thither
immediatlie
after
the
first
rumour
of
the
Well
,
grew
vncountable
,
and
the
people
as
well
of
Cheshire
,
as
all
the
bordering
shires
thereabouts
,
trauelling
thither
daily
in
greater
and
greater
multitudes
(
euen
till
they
amounted
by
estimation
to
more
than
two
thousand
in
a
daie
)
Master
Done
euen
then
at
the
first
,
although
it
were
great
disturbance
to
her
Highnesse
Deere
in
the
Forrest
,
&
occasion
of
much
other
inconuenience
to
the
countrie
,
yet
in
regard
of
the
notable
comfort
that
sicke
and
diseased
,
and
pleasure
that
healthfull
and
sound
persons
receiued
by
it
;
hath
been
contented
to
allow
free
accesse
,
and
permitted
all
manner
of
meete
prouision
to
be
brought
vnto
it
,
with
most
carefull
and
Worshipfull
foresight
and
heede
,
as
well
that
no
money
nor
see
should
be
exacted
for
the
vse
of
the
water
which
God
had
freelie
bestowed
on
poore
and
rich
,
as
also
that
there
should
be
order
and
gouernment
warilie
taken
ouer
all
such
as
resorted
thither
,
so
that
no
manner
of
misdemeanor
,
or
disorder
should
growe
in
that
place
,
whereunto
such
great
assemblies
are
apt
and
prone
enough
,
if
good
heede
and
preuention
be
not
vsed
.
To
which
purpose
it
happened
well
that
the
Well
it selfe
falleth
within
the
limits
of
a
walke
in
the
Forrest
,
which
hath
long
time
been
kept
and
watched
by
one
Iohn
Frodsham
the
keeper
of
that
walke
,
who
as
he
was
a
very
fit
and
meete
person
,
both
for
his
good
discretion
and
estimation
to
take
the
gouernment
and
ordering
of
people
of
the
inferiour
sort
,
and
for
the
entertainment
of
the
better
sort
as
they
resorted
thither
,
so
hath
he
taken
great
paines
and
care
in
discharging
the
trust
in
him
reposed
,
for
satisfaction
of
all
manner
of
resorters
thither
,
and
daily
endeuoureth
himselfe
by
all
waies
and
meanes
possible
,
that
his
Masters
good
and
forward
inclination
to
doe
all
both
poore
and
rich
equall
furtherance
in
their
desires
,
may
honestly
and
respectiuely
be
accomplished
.
Now
by
that
which
hath
been
before
set
downe
,
it
appeareth
what
diuersitie
of
cure
this
Well
water
hath
made
vpon
sundrie
persons
,
as
shall
be
more
largely
proued
to
such
as
make
doubt
of
the
trueth
of
these
reports
.
For
as
it
consequently
followeth
that
(
these
things
being
graunted
)
then
is
this
Water
found
beneficiall
and
medicinable
against
more
seuerall
sorts
of
diseases
and
infirmities
,
then
any
one
remedie
that
hath
been
commonly
knowne
heard
of
,
or
experimented
(
which
report
is
indeede
wonderfull
,
and
scarcely
to
be
beleeued
to
such
as
haue
not
been
eye-witnesses
thereof
)
so
were
it
a
great
boldnesse
and
an
enterprise
of
a
very
brainsicke
disposition
in
me
,
that
should
affirme
the
same
,
vnlesse
I
were
warranted
by
the
experience
of
so
many
,
so
credible
,
so
wise
,
so
graue
,
so
sufficient
persons
,
both
in
Cheshire
,
Lancashire
,
Darbishire
,
Staffordshire
,
Shropshire
,
Flintshire
,
Denbighshire
and
others
,
from
whence
men
,
women
and
children
hauing
resorted
hither
in
such
abundance
,
there
is
not
any
but
haue
giuen
ample
testimonie
that
they
found
some
extraordinarie
pleasure
by
drinking
,
or
other
vse
of
the
water
(
especially
those
who
vpon
any
cause
of
griefe
haue
receiued
it
)
as
more
at
large
I
might
very
well
make
manifest
,
if
I
thought
it
conuenient
or
much
necessarie
for
me
to
publish
that
approbation
and
testimonie
vnder
their
seuerall
names
,
which
many
of
the
best
ranke
of
the
inhabitants
of
these
adioyning
countries
,
haue
and
doe
freely
and
trulie
giue
of
it
.
And
least
it
should
be
expected
that
I
should
insist
vpon
some
particular
instances
,
or
otherwise
suspected
I
dealt
not
plainelie
,
but
sought
to
beguile
persons
remote
and
farre
dwellers
,
with
words
whereof
I
had
no
proofe
,
I
thinke
it
not
impertinent
to
set
downe
the
particulars
of
some
of
the
cures
made
vpon
diuers
diseases
,
in
diuers
persons
,
of
diuers
habitations
:
which
though
they
be
skant
an
hundreth
part
of
those
which
might
be
registred
to
haue
receiued
benefit
by
the
Well
,
yet
it
shall
be
sufficient
to
any
reasonable
minde
,
to
take
viewe
and
note
by
these
of
what
power
and
force
the
water
is
found
to
be
:
wherein
I
cannot
in
any
sort
be
conuinced
of
lying
or
misreporting
,
because
they
are
testimonies
taken
from
the
confession
of
all
the
parties
themselues
,
and
witnessed
by
the
beholders
,
being
many
scores
,
yea
hundreds
of
people
of
all
these
Countries
,
who
haue
seene
the
proceedings
as
here
is
deliuered
.
First
,
for
the
curing
of
Agues
there
is
none
within
any
reasonable
distance
from
the
place
,
but
know
what
numbers
haue
been
,
and
are
dailie
cured
of
that
infirmitie
,
especiallie
of
such
as
dwell
neere
the
Well
,
or
haue
staied
a
competent
space
to
take
benefite
by
the
water
in
the
best
kinde
:
which
is
to
receiue
it
fresh
from
the
Fountaine
it selfe
:
let
it
suffice
to
name
these
fewe
for
example
.
The
aforenamed
Iohn
Greenwaie
,
William
,
Thomas
and
Ralphe
his
sonnes
,
all
honest
young
men
and
credible
persons
.
One
William
Iohnson
a
seruant
to
Ralphe
Smethers
,
extreamelie
vexed
with
an
Ague
,
was
vpon
May
day
last
,
speedily
and
perfectly
restored
to
his
health
by
drinking
that
Well
water
.
One
Master
Haworth
of
Congerton
,
an
honest
Gentleman
,
deliuered
from
the
fits
within
once
or
twice
washing
and
drinking
.
One
Ioan
Gorst
a
substantiail
honest
mans
daughter
,
likewise
perfectly
cured
of
an
Ague
,
which
had
handled
her
in
such
extremitie
,
that
through
weakenes
she
could
not
be
brought
on
horsebacke
,
butas
she
was
staied
and
held
vpon
the
horse
,
she
recouered
health
by
three
or
foure
times
drinking
and
washing
.
For
sorenes
and
blindnes
of
eyes
,
consider
these
fewe
reports
.
Hugh
Rowe
of
Darnall
,
a
man
of
good
wealth
and
very
honest
credit
,
hauing
been
quite
depriued
of
the
sight
of
one
eye
for
three
yeares
space
,
by
washing
oft
in
this
water
,
hath
welneere
recouered
sight
in
the
same
againe
,
a
cure
that
among
the
rest
hath
much
confirmed
both
mine
and
many
others
beleefe
of
the
effectuall
operation
of
this
water
,
being
well
acquainted
with
the
losse
of
his
sayd
eye
,
and
knowing
well
the
mans
worth
of
credit
in
that
behalfe
.
Thomas
Leonard
,
borne
at
Salisburie
,
and
latelie
blind
for
the
space
of
two
yeares
,
hath
with
washing
in
this
water
about
twelue
dayes
receiued
sight
againe
.
Ralphe
Hichenson
a
poore
labourer
fallen
of
late
yeares
very
blinde
,
as
hath
been
well
knowne
to
many
of
the
Worshipfull
Gentlemen
in
the
countrey
,
who
thereupon
haue
caused
reliefe
and
prouision
for
him
according
to
the
statute
,
hath
by
the
vse
of
this
water
recouered
sight
againe
,
which
serueth
him
well
to
goe
without
leading
,
which
before
he
could
not
doe
.
One
Robert
Bradley
,
who
came
out
of
Darbishire
the
24.
of
Iuly
,
being
borne
at
Chappell
in
the
Frith
,
was
led
hither
blind
,
hath
here
recouered
sight
,
and
the
fourth
of
August
is
gone
home
without
leading
.
One
of
Edge
in
Cheshire
hauing
had
a
pearle
fifteene
or
sixteene
yeeres
in
one
eye
,
by
this
water
got
remedie
for
it
.
Cures
of
aches
and
griefes
in
the
ioints
and
body
haue
beene
such
as
follow
.
One
Anne
the
wife
of
William
Wield
of
Rushton
hauing
such
paine
in
her
backe
and
hippes
,
that
she
was
altogether
vnable
to
go
,
is
by
vsing
this
water
become
perfectly
sound
,
and
goeth
well
.
One
Anthony
Bigges
a
souldier
late
in
the
Regiment
of
Sir
Samuell
Bagnall
came
forth
of
Ireland
verie
lame
,
sicke
,
and
feeble
,
not
able
to
mooue
farther
then
he
was
supported
by
crouches
,
on
the
24.
of
Iuly
began
to
vse
this
water
,
&
the
29.
of
the
same
had
recouered
strength
,
and
went
lustily
homeward
toward
Somersetshire
with
onely
a
walking
staffe
in
his
hand
.
Roger
Nickson
a
substantiall
man
,
now
Maior
of
Ouer
confesseth
himselfe
to
be
cured
of
a
sore
paine
he
had
in
one
of
his
legs
.
One
Ralph
Lightfoot
of
the
same
corporation
saith
he
had
a
certain
griping
in
his
body
which
would
take
him
three
or
foure
times
a
day
,
and
almost
plucke
him
to
the
ground
,
and
in
short
time
now
hath
beene
fully
cured
thereof
.
George
Blacamore
of
the
same
society
saith
,
that
by
twice
washing
he
was
cured
of
an
issue
of
water
which
came
from
his
knee
by
a
cut
with
an
axe
,
which
before
would
haue
drenched
through
nine-fold
of
cloth
in
lesse
then
a
quarter
of
an
houre
.
One
Iames
Kelsall
cured
of
a
legge
which
had
beene
sore
for
many
yeeres
before
,
and
would
be
holpen
by
no
meanes
till
now
.
One
Edward
Billington
of
Middlewich
parish
,
hauing
a
straunge
disease
in
his
body
,
that
he
was
not
able
almost
to
mooue
himselfe
,
is
now
able
to
go
to
the
Well
with
ease
,
being
almost
foure
miles
distant
.
One
Mistres
Drakeford
of
Congerford
was
here
cured
of
some
infirmities
in
her
bodie
,
as
by
her
husband
was
credibly
reported
.
One
Hugh
Fairechild
of
Prescot
Parish
in
Lancashire
,
affirmeth
himselfe
to
be
hereby
cured
of
a
Rupture
.
One
Randol
Phitheon
of
Warmincham
Yeoman
,
was
long
time
benummed
by
a
poyson
,
that
he
could
almost
hold
nothing
in
his
hand
,
auoucheth
that
he
hath
receiued
great
comfort
by
this
water
.
Robert
Hall
of
the
parish
of
Whitegate
Wheelewright
had
of
late
a
disease
fell
into
one
hand
,
which
brake
and
issued
at
fifteene
or
sixteene
holes
,
and
is
with
this
water
made
fish
whole
,
witnessed
by
the
sight
and
knowledge
of
the
Vicar
of
Ouer
,
a
very
honest
gentleman
.
One
Master
William
Iohnes
a
gentleman
of
worth
and
good
reputation
,
dwelling
neere
Wrixham
in
Denbighshire
came
very
sicke
and
lame
to
this
Well
,
where
recouering
health
and
soundnes
,
he
left
testimonie
there
vnder
his
hand-writing
of
the
great
benefit
he
receiued
to
this
effect
.
Viz.
That
where
he
was
exceeding
lame
of
his
knees
and
feete
,
and
grieuously
pained
in
his
head
,
necke
,
shoulders
,
and
sides
,
that
from
Easter
weeke
till
the
26.
of
Iune
,
he
was
not
able
to
go
without
the
helpe
both
of
the
crouch
,
and
one
to
hold
him
by
the
other
arme
,
vsing
this
water
at
his
house
one
fortnight
,
he
found
himselfe
able
to
trauell
to
the
Well
,
where
he
continued
in
all
twelue
daies
,
and
found
such
good
thereby
,
that
he
was
able
to
go
onely
with
the
helpe
of
a
little
sticke
in
one
hand
,
and
to
get
vpon
his
horse
without
helpe
,
and
in
token
of
the
benefit
he
receiued
there
,
he
hath
left
his
crouch
in
the
hollin
there
behind
,
this
second
of
August
1600.
The
same
crouch
with
diuers
others
being
there
indeed
reserued
as
oft
as
anie
haue
cause
to
leaue
them
.
One
Peter
Nightgale
was
by
this
water
likewise
cured
of
a
Rupture
in
his
bodie
.
One
Ioane
Bromhall
of
the
Middlewich
lame
of
one
arme
and
one
hand
,
as
is
known
and
affirmed
by
men
of
good
worship
,
by
this
water
hath
gotten
helpe
,
and
hath
perfect
vse
of
her
arme
and
hand
againe
.
Iohn
Olton
of
Wettenhall
the
younger
,
an
honest
credible
man
,
hauing
a
Rupture
many
yeeres
,
and
not
able
to
go
without
the
helpe
of
a
steele
girdle
which
he
wore
continually
,
hath
heereby
gotten
remedie
,
and
goeth
now
lustily
without
his
girdle
.
I
may
not
omit
among
these
some
that
haue
beene
eased
of
the
gout
and
such
like
aches
:
As
one
George
Iohnson
of
Northwich
,
long
time
diseased
in
that
sort
,
so
that
he
was
not
able
to
goe
,
is
by
this
water
holpen
and
well
amended
.
Christopher
Bennet
of
Wiruin
much
eased
and
holpen
of
a
gout
,
and
sorenesse
besides
,
called
a
Wildfire
in
one
of
his
legges
.
One
Master
Iames
Hocknell
sonne
to
Iohn
Hocknell
Esquire
,
being
not
able
to
goe
,
but
was
brought
to
the
Well
on
horsebacke
three
or
foure
times
,
and
became
perfectly
amended
.
One
Elizabeth
Bradshaw
of
Northwich
had
sore
legs
twentie
two
yeeres
,
and
hath
here
by
this
water
gotten
helpe
.
The
straungest
cure
to
my
iudgement
that
proceedes
from
this
water
,
among
all
the
rest
,
is
the
helpe
that
it
giues
to
some
of
the
hardnesse
of
hearing
,
wherof
there
are
no
few
testimonies
giuen
by
many
,
one
that
is
knowen
to
be
benefited
therein
is
Randal
Wield
a
young
youth
of
Vtkinton
.
This
I
know
vpon
my
owne
knowledge
that
a
Gentleman
here
in
the
countrey
,
one
Master
D.
C.
being
so
deafe
that
he
cannot
heare
the
report
of
a
gunne
discharged
verie
neere
him
,
hauing
of
this
water
infused
into
his
eares
,
it
presently
drew
forth
much
corruption
beyond
all
expectation
,
what
further
benefit
will
insue
towards
the
amendement
of
this
deafnes
restes
in
Gods
hands
,
but
there
is
good
hope
.
I
haue
purposely
spared
to
remember
a
Worshipfull
Knight
of
Lancashire
,
who
hath
oft
visited
to
his
owne
great
ease
and
comfort
this
Well
,
and
as
well
himselfe
as
other
Gentlemen
of
good
account
,
and
some
learned
of
his
companie
haue
giuen
very
great
approbation
to
the
truth
of
the
Welles
efficacy
.
One
notable
vertue
it
hath
not
to
be
forgotten
,
which
is
soueraignty
in
curing
and
helping
the
Stone
,
which
was
notorious
in
that
one
cure
it
did
vpon
Iames
Okenthorpe
of
Eaton
,
who
was
tormented
both
with
the
Stone
and
Strangulion
,
and
hereby
receiued
remedie
.
No
man
can
better
confirme
the
credit
of
this
,
that
the
water
helpeth
the
Stone
and
other
hurtfull
obstructions
,
then
one
Master
Iohn
Wyttur
of
Torporleigh
a
very
substantiall
Freeholder
,
who
of
late
was
of
the
stone
together
with
a
colde
and
certaine
gryping
torments
in
his
bodie
brought
euen
to
deaths
doore
,
and
through
helpe
(
as
he
thinketh
next
vnder
God
,
of
this
water
)
is
verie
well
restored
to
his
former
health
.
I
heard
an
other
very
sensible
wise
Gentleman
professe
and
openly
auerre
,
that
hee
verily
beleeued
,
if
he
had
not
had
ease
by
the
water
of
this
Well
,
the
disease
of
the
Stone
had
surely
killed
him
,
the
Gentleman
is
toward
Sir
H.
Harrington
,
and
will
confidently
auouch
it
.
It
hath
had
no
fewe
reports
of
doing
good
to
some
such
as
haue
beene
there
to
seeke
for
remedie
against
falling
sicknesse
,
Apoplexies
,
Epilepsies
,
Letargies
,
Giddinesses
and
other
straunge
Symptomes
:
but
eyther
I
suppose
these
proofes
are
sufficient
,
or
infinite
cannot
serue
.
I
hold
it
therefore
a
needlesse
and
vnprofitable
labour
to
trauell
further
in
these
recitals
of
cures
:
Neither
doe
I
labour
hereby
to
spread
an
opinion
beyond
trueth
of
the
vertue
of
this
Well
,
which
to
do
were
no
way
to
me
worth
my
labour
.
That
I
should
endeuour
to
deceiue
and
beguile
mens
eares
with
a
straunge
report
,
would
more
displease
me
to
thinke
my selfe
so
gulde
in
mine
owne
folly
,
then
pleasure
me
to
thinke
there
were
a
pleasure
in
illusions
,
to
labour
to
draw
men
the
faster
to
frequent
the
place
and
come
to
see
the
Well
,
I
protest
before
God
I
know
not
how
that
may
any
way
benefit
me
one
farthing
.
Only
my
desire
is
to
satisfy
my
friends
and
others
of
the
truth
of
that
,
whereof
now
there
grow
many
doubts
and
disputations
among
men
.
They
which
dwell
farre
remote
rest
doubtfull
,
whether
the
large
and
ample
fame
thereof
spread
,
deserue
credit
or
not
.
Some
that
dwell
neere
the
place
argue
and
debate
whether
or
how
it
is
possible
such
straunge
and
admirable
effects
should
be
produced
from
a
cause
so
simple
,
poore
,
easie
and
common
as
the
water
of
a
little
Spring
.
Of
the
first
sort
those
that
be
generous
,
gentle
and
well
disposed
,
I
suppose
these
confirmations
will
worke
very
farre
for
their
satisfaction
:
because
I
know
not
how
any
thing
may
be
proued
,
if
it
be
not
a
good
proofe
which
is
drawne
from
the
approbation
of
worshipfull
,
wise
,
learned
,
rich
,
poore
and
altogether
,
and
that
not
of
one
,
but
of
many
Shires
:
and
I
will
neuer
beleeue
prouerbe
more
whilest
I
liue
,
if
the
prouerbe
be
not
in
this
cause
somewhat
auaileable
which
saith
,
It
must
needs
be
true
which
euery
man
saith
.
For
those
that
doubt
of
each
thing
they
see
,
because
they
presently
apprehend
not
the
reason
of
it
,
I
holde
them
not
worthie
of
satisfaction
,
because
their
peruerse
opinions
are
incapable
of
instructions
of
the
true
acceptation
of
any
benefits
eyther
diuine
or
naturall
.
These
are
like
to
the
neighbours
of
some
excellent
and
skilfull
Phisition
,
who
in
enuie
and
hatred
do
vsually
disable
his
skill
,
and
cannot
endure
to
see
other
men
flocke
to
him
for
helpe
and
remedies
:
yet
if
griefe
,
paine
,
or
sicknes
sease
vpon
themselues
,
they
then
are
glad
to
sue
for
his
helpe
,
then
for
necessitie
sake
they
honour
the
Phisition
:
not
the
wise
man
which
gaue
this
precept
,
but
necessitie
it selfe
teacheth
them
to
do
him
his
due
reuerence
.
Endlesse
were
the
labour
a
man
might
haue
that
would
go
about
to
answere
the
obiections
which
the
curiositie
of
some
braines
will
still
brue
,
and
fling
in
his
face
that
shall
commend
any
truth
whatsoeuer
,
neither
will
I
enlarge
this
discourse
with
so
tedious
a
purpose
as
to
conuince
that
by
way
of
argument
,
which
no
equall
mind
will
much
doubt
of
.
The
Scepticke
inquirers
which
professe
doubtfulnes
in
all
things
though
neuer
so
manifest
,
and
aske
why
fire
is
fire
,
or
why
heat
is
heat
,
why
white
is
not
called
blacke
,
and
why
blacke
is
not
called
blew
:
what
answere
deserue
their
friuolous
demaunds
,
but
silence
the
reward
of
foolish
questions
?
They
that
aske
why
the
water
of
that
Well
should
be
so
holsome
aboue
an
other
water
,
eyther
on
this
side
or
beyond
the
same
place
,
eyther
on
one
this
side
the
hill
,
or
one
the
tother
,
are
they
not
like
to
those
which
contenned
the
Prophets
prescription
touching
Naaman
,
and
asked
if
Abanah
and
Pharpar
,
riuers
of
Damascus
,
were
not
as
fine
waters
as
that
of
Iordan
?
Why
was
not
this
precious
water
(
say
some
)
found
out
before
this
time
?
or
how
comes
it
to
passe
,
that
in
an
element
so
bare
,
void
of
mixture
,
and
so
meerely
nothing
almost
differing
from
other
water
,
there
should
be
operation
so
diuers
,
as
to
be
medicinable
against
such
diuersitie
of
diseases
,
wherof
no
doubt
the
causes
proceed
some
contrary
one
to
another
?
Questions
sottish
&
contemptible
.
Haue
not
all
notable
benefits
had
their
seuerall
beginnings
?
and
cannot
men
tell
you
of
the
inuention
and
first
finding
of
tenne
thousand
publike
admirations
,
whereof
some
haue
lien
hid
and
vnreuealed
euen
till
our
daies
?
and
is
it
any
new
thing
that
waters
should
effect
so
strange
,
and
so
diuers
operations
?
What
meane
Scholler
hath
not
read
of
the
Well
in
Gnarsborrough
forrest
,
which
conuerteth
leaues
,
flesh
and
such
like
into
hard
stone
?
of
the
Well
in
Glocestershire
,
which
turneth
oke
rootes
as
they
grow
into
hard
stone
,
of
an
other
neere
Stonie
Stratford
,
conuerting
stickes
and
the
like
,
into
the
like
hardnes
of
stone
?
Are
not
these
straunge
operations
?
and
can
a
man
prefently
giue
a
reason
hereof
.
Knowes
any
man
the
reason
why
that
lake
in
Snowdon
which
carrieth
the
mooueable
Iland
,
should
bring
forth
Eeles
,
Perches
and
Trouts
with
onely
one
eye
a
peece
in
their
heads
,
which
no
other
water
beside
doth
?
or
why
that
Well
in
Wales
,
six
mile
from
the
sea
,
or
another
in
Darbishire
40.
miles
distant
from
the
sea
,
should
rise
and
fall
iust
with
the
ebbing
and
flowing
of
the
sea
?
We
are
to
wonder
at
,
not
examine
all
the
secret
workings
of
nature
,
and
giuing
praise
to
the
great
Guider
of
nature
,
and
ouer-ruler
of
naturall
causes
,
to
receiue
the
good
benefits
we
find
with
thankfull
humilitie
.
I
could
heartily
wish
that
some
learned
and
experienced
man
of
ability
and
iudgement
(
rather
a
skilfull
Phisition
then
any
)
would
take
paines
,
iudicially
to
approue
and
publish
to
the
world
the
vertues
and
vse
of
this
good
water
,
as
hath
heretofore
been
done
by
our
best
bathes
in
other
parts
of
the
Realme
.
Perhaps
some
famous
Doctor
Turner
,
or
learned
Master
Iones
could
well
satisfie
the
curiosity
of
the
narrowest
inquirers
why
this
should
be
,
and
that
should
be
;
they
could
iudge
of
the
nature
of
the
water
,
of
the
colour
,
of
the
vaines
of
the
earth
,
of
the
situation
of
the
climate
,
of
all
the
collaterall
causes
which
make
it
beneficiall
.
If
our
Well
worke
the
like
or
as
strange
effects
as
Bath
,
Buxtons
,
Saint
Vincents
or
Hally
well
,
what
aduantage
haue
they
of
it
,
sauing
that
good
fortune
hath
found
them
out
such
men
(
as
those
before
named
)
to
publish
their
vertues
.
The
first
of
which
named
Welles
(
I
meane
the
Bath
)
I
must
needs
with
great
reuerence
giue
due
admiration
vnto
,
in
respect
of
the
great
fame
and
antiquitie
,
it
is
knowne
to
be
of
.
And
because
it
exceeds
all
the
rest
as
in
heat
,
so
in
the
sensiblenes
or
manifest
apparance
of
phisicall
or
medicinable
curing
,
I
hold
it
great
reason
it
should
retaine
the
preheminence
ouer
all
the
rest
.
And
where
our
Wel
wanting
that
sensible
heat
may
perhaps
in
that
respect
be
disallowed
the
name
of
a
medicinable
water
:
I
answer
nothing
but
that
which
Master
Iones
writeth
of
Buxtons
Well
,
that
being
not
so
hot
,
as
the
water
of
Bathe
,
it
healeth
more
temperately
and
effectually
.
Thus
farre
(
Bro.
B.
)
as
my
haste
and
slender
abilitie
would
permit
,
I
haue
laboured
to
impart
vnto
you
the
newes
of
the
New
found
Well
.
If
you
please
you
may
commit
it
to
further
view
,
if
it
be
not
well
reported
,
or
the
newes
not
well
accepted
,
or
my
meaning
not
well
construed
,
I
can
say
no
more
but
this
,
I
would
all
were
well
.
FINIS
.