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ordinary, and therefore unknown texture. Such are thofe m 
many places accounted fo foveraign for the Eyes^ and cure of in* 
veterate Vlcers^ after the ineffedual tryals of the beft Chirurgi- 
ons : Thefe for the moft part, and perhaps not undefervedly , are 
commonly ftiled Holy-vpells^ not only for the good they have for- 
merly done, but for that they feem to be the immediate gift of 
God^ and defigned for the poor, 
68. A very eminent one of thefe there is in the Parilli of Sand- 
ford^ not far from. Great Tew^ which within the memory of many 
thereabout, hath done great cures upon putrid and fetid old fores, 
a long time before given over for incurable. Thefe Vpatersh^vt 
with them, according totheobfervations of the ingenious Dodor 
Beal ^a kind of active friftion, but intermingling with their afpe- 
riries fuch a pleafant titillation, as invites the Patient to rub on 
the terfive water ^ and will all along recom pence the pain of fearch- 
ing the wound, with fuch fpeedy and indulgent degrees of fana- 
tion, as mitigates the torment with variety of pleafures. 
6 0 , And thus (as T am informed by perfonsof unqueftionable 
fidelity, that have often ufed them for their eyes^ arid in fome o- 
ther cafes) do the waters of St, Crofps in the Suburbs of Oxford^ 
whofe Well was heretofore, and in fome meafureyet remains, fo 
confiderable for fuch like purpofes, that the great refort of peo- 
ple to it has given occafion of change to the name of theParidi, 
which to this very day we call now nothing but Holy-well, 
70. But of much greater Fame was the Well of St. Edward, 
without St. Clements zt Oxford J now quite ftop'd up ; but as 'tis 
remembred by fome of the antienteft of the Parifl'i,was in the field 
about a furlong S. S. Weft of tlie Church ; this at leaft was be- 
lieved to be fo effectual in curing divers diftempers, and there- 
upon held to be of fo great fanSlityj that here they made vows^ and 
brought their alms and oferings ; a cuftom, though common e- 
nough in thofe days, yet always forbidden by our Anglican Coun- 
cils'"^ under the mme wdycofi^uni^ [^[filveorthunga'] more right- 
Jy tranflated Well-worJiAf than Will-worfiip-, as is plainly nmde 
appear by the Reverend and Learned Dr. Hammond^ ^ out of an 
old Saxon Penitential^ and a 5*^X072 Homily of Bifiop Lupus ; where 
the word p'l is rather fliewed to fignifie/ow/m, thzn voluntatem. 
A gain ft thefe ywj«>ery?i/io/25 fo ordinary in thofe days, there are fe- 
' Phi/of TravfaB- Num. 57. ^ Canonibm fub zdgaro- Can. 6o- " Annotat. on E^ifi. Colojf. c . 2. -v. 2 3 . 
G vera! 
