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Dr. Powel * fecms juftly to afcribe the 

 firft invention of this well to the monks of 

 Bafingwerk, an abbey about a mile diftant, 

 as it is not mentioned by any writer before 

 the foundation of that monaftry; even 

 Giraldus Cambrenfis, (a man ever ready to 

 relate any wonderful ftory) though he 

 lodged there a night, in his journey through 

 Wales, in 1 1 87, does not once fpeak of it. 



Of this invention Dr. Fuller -f* fomewhat 

 curioufly remarks, that " if the tip of his 

 ** tongue who fir ft told, and the top of his 

 " fingers who firft wrote this damnable 

 " lye, had been cut off", and they had both 

 " been fent to attend their cure at the 

 " mrine of St. Beuno, certainly they would 

 " have been more wary, afterwards, how 

 " they reported or recorded fuch impro- 

 " bable untruths.'* 



t Powel 's Notes on Itin. Cambrias Syl. Ger. 

 Caaibrenfe, Lib. II. Cap. X. p. 38. 



* Fuller's Worthies of Wales, p. 38. 



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