Of OXFO\T)^Hl%E. * 



to thefe times, as above in Banbury; only that, and' whatever 

 elfe is worthy notice of them, may be found in fome other modern 

 Hiftories. 



123. Yet before we come to the times fince the Conquefl, let us 

 firft remember that the Town of Iflip, Sax. Gighcrlepe, or Gibcrlepe; 

 muft needs be of good repute in thofe days, for Camden fays ex- 

 prefly, and fo do feveral other Authors, that King Edward the 

 Confejfor was born there, which they prove from his original 

 Charter of Restoration of the Abby of Weslminsler, wherein he 

 gives to this his new Church the Town of Iflip, with the additi- 

 onal Claufe of [the place where he was born l ~\ which though, 'tis 

 true, I could not find in Mr. Dugdale h , yet here remaining fome 

 foot-fteps of the ancient Palace, and a Chappel now put to pro- 

 fane ufe, called the Kings Chapel, and the Town ftill belonging to 

 the Church of Weflminfter, there is no great doubt to be made of 

 the thing, tradition it felf being not like to be erroneous in a mat- 

 ter of this nature, though there were no fuch Charter to prove 

 the thing alleged, which yet we have reafon to believe there is, 

 or was, though not produced by Mr. Dugdale. 



124. In the Chapel above-mentioned, not many years fince, 

 there flood (as was conftantly deliver'd down to pofterity) the 

 very Font, wherein that Religious Prince, St. Edward the Confef- 

 for, received the Sacrament ofBaptifm : which, together with the 

 Chapel, in thefe latter days being put to fome indecent at leaft, if 

 not profane ufe, was carefully and pioufly refcued from it, by 

 fome of the Right Worfhipful Family of the Browns of Nether 

 Kiddington, where it now remains in the garden of that worthy 

 Gentleman Sir Henry Brown Baronet, fet handfomly on a pedefial 

 as exaftly reprefented Tab. 1 6. Fig. 6. and adorned with a Poem 

 rather pious than learned, which yet I think I had put down, 

 but that it is imperfeft. 



125. Which holy King Edward was the firft to whom Was 

 granted the gift of Sanation, only with the touch of his hand, of 

 the Difeafe called the Struma, or Scrofula, and in Englifti upon 

 this account, the Kings Evil; which as a mark of Gods moft efpe- 

 cial favor to this Kingdom, has been tranfmitted with it, as an he- 

 reditary gift to all his Succeffors : Every facred hand in all Ages ever 

 fince, that has held the Scepter of this moft happy and now flo- 



* Camd. Briton. inCom.Oxon. fc Vid- Monaff icon Angl.voil. p. 59. 



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