A TOUR ROUND NORTH WALES. 



battle was fought, feems to have been 

 Battlefield, in the parilh of Albrighton, 

 about three miles diftant.* 



It is affirmed that Henry VII. brought 

 with the army, that landed in Wales, 

 a fpecies of malady unknown in any 

 other age or nation, called the fw eating 

 ficknefs, which after raging for upwards 

 of fixty years in the kingdom, and carry- 

 ing off many thoufands of his fubjecls, 

 at laft ended in this town, in the year 

 1551, where it had juft before raged fo 

 terribly, as to take off no lefs than nine 

 hundred and ninety perfons, in the 

 courfe of a very few days. It began 

 with a violent perfpiration, which ne- 

 ver left the patient till it deftroyed him 

 or he recovered. Such as were affecled 

 by it, ufually died or recovered within 

 the fpacc of twenty four hours, if taken 

 ill in the day, the patient was to be put to 



, * Gibfen's Camden, p. 547. 



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