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satisfactory as to the initials carved on the well front ; perhaps 

 some documentary evidence may be eventually found. The most 

 likely name so far is that of Brookhouse ; three of the names 

 begin with B. Unfortunately none of the dates so far agree with 

 that on the well, so that the matter is uncertain at present ; but 

 doubtless the names belong to men who had a desire to preserve 

 an old landmark, and so we should like them to be known and 

 honoured as all such deserve to be. 



" And there was, too, within a Httle dell, 

 A limpid fountain named the " Holy Well," 

 Where pilgrims came to drink the sacred wave 

 That heal'd their wounds, and snatched them from the grave. 

 Those times, those customs, now have passed away ; 

 Those pilgrim feet no more a-near them stray ; 

 But still the waters bubble as of yore. 

 And yield a grateful offering to the poor. 

 Oh ! when on earth we've lived our transient day, 

 And clay has mingled with its native clay, 

 Some small memorial may we leave behind, 

 That we have sought to benefit mankind." 



" The Trent," J. J. Briggs. 



[My friend, Mr. Bailey, has asked me to add some notes of 

 mine to his interesting paper and careful drawings. I have not 

 much to say. That the chapel at Derby of St. Thomas Becket 

 was over or close to the well that bore his name, seems to me a 

 happy and most probable suggestion. I liave made much search, 

 both personally and through agents, at the Public Record Office, 

 to learn anything with regard to this chapel, but all in vain. The 

 fruitlessness of such a search is not, however, the slightest proof of 

 the non-existence of the chapel. Unless it was endowed with lands, 

 no record of it is likely to be found. None can be found of St. 

 Anne's, Buxton. The fact is that these little well chapels, of 

 which many remains still exist in Wales, Shropshire, and Corn- 

 wall, had but intermittent masses sung in them, namely, when 

 visited by pilgrims with a priest in their train, or when a more 

 wealthy patient was therein cured. 



On another point I am quite in accord with Mr. Kerry and 



