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mixing with other water, with a deep rufty colour* And third*- 
ly, lince the Printing the 48 §. of Chap, 8. I havefeen a Lapis 
Ramloe taken out from under the Tongue of one Johnfon a 
Shoo-maker (by the skilful Mr. Pointer Chirurgion) here in 
Oxford. 
142. Which is all I have at prefent to offer the Reader^ but 
that he would take notice, i. That in Chap, 2. §. ^9* where I 
mention a Well fo eminent heretofore for cunng difiempers^ in the 
Parifti of St. Crofes^ that it has given it the morelafting name of 
Holy-well ; that 1 intend not that Well of late eredion (though 
perhaps the water of that is as good) and now moft ufed, but an 
other ancienter Holy-vpellhth\n& the Churchy in Mr. Nevil's Court 
before his houfe. And that fecondly^ notwithftanding the au- 
thority of the Learned "Dr, Hammond (with whom a man need 
not much be afhamed to err) fome will have, that he calls the 
Well of St. Edward \n the Parifh of St. Clements, rather the Well of 
St. Edmund^ for which I find the very fame authority alleged, that 
Dr. Hammondhnngs ^. And laftly to beg of him, that though 
in general he find me unequal to my defign^ and many particulars 
of this Effay perhaps ill placed, and worfe expreifed, that yet 
in confideration that this is rny firft attempt (wherein many Incon- 
veniencies could not be fore-feen, which may hereafter be avoid- 
ed) he would candidly accept of the ftnceritj of my intention, 
with all imaginableendeavor of amendment for the future, in lieu 
and excufe of my prefent Inabilities^ 
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