M' fact v> uMiuiJijj a wEjLL. dya 
greatly increase the population of the 
SAINT Winifred’s well 
393 
neighbourhood. 
'r^e v,~ spring, where a 
\ K ai 1 ' chapel, supported 
\'\ 1 AO AA 11V.CU. ^,uajjci, bupporifU 
,, '’n the windows are painted the chief events of 
'V ^bont V anciently written, Wenefrede’s 
V*'‘i<)Us 'j‘® Srows moss, which the ignorant and 
J . most stupidly imagine to be St. 
lartv '■■ reported to have been a 
"'ho lived in tlie seventh century, and, as the 
‘'C ‘>Ta”nt!^“f ravished and beheaded in this place by a 
^eni * spring having miraculously risen from her 
i Rri AAi.A»iAj^ *iiij.a«,,uiwuai^ uacii iiuin iier 
Sv?*out bath was much frequented by Popish 
.)C it f ‘i®r°tinn, as well as by those who came to 
om medicinal purposes. Mr. Pennant says. 
' '■ Cl ^ 
1,'ihj^Stojj, „ . — - Jf— t-””' — J. oa^a, 
'.‘>ih*''"tion ^k well in pilgrimage, and offering 
i, 0 )er a / mere, is not yet entirely laid aside: in the 
®'" 3 re still to be seen in the water, in deep 
'|,>rs ’_"P to *’ • •• ' • - - 
P()j. 'Oj Q|. ^ _ ~****^»« AWA AJV'Ui*} OWLAUiAig LIJCU 
i(^?'‘>ial\veii evolutions round the 
tlieir chins for hour*, sending up their 
'd Inv .supposed that the present enlightened 
' ' tljL ,n been " — ' 
iv'd'ln''’^dian Milner, a Catholic Bishop, 
Uij taken much pains to persuade the 
secure against a repetition of irnpos- 
..1 • Knt T^nr*frM* tV/IUti,^** « ‘n:. 1 
but Doctor Milner, a Catholic Bishop, 
7 ta 11 *?'^°' proselyte, of the name of Winefrid 
'V» ' 8 oa '^ured of various chronic diseases so late as 
Ik bv n rvvi’ror^l/. O:.. i 1 • 
'll,. ^ miracle. Sir Richard Phillips, having, 
7 /lagazine, ref ' ' ' 
"‘■eels of strong 
Cof °f cure, 
incredulity; but, in number 
'“>Uhlv if 
V l>t ''’"n ip'^‘’S"^,'ne, referred this pretended miracle 
i(!j''lifi’r'secl r, strong faith on ignorant minds, iiv 
clef„, 7 ^‘'^ts of cure, has been attacked by the 
'Oiiil 1 At a*a»., 4 v^vilaiiij' j uui> 111 luiinncr 
\ ' y ^itigazine, he replies in the following 
1 *'ilVg 
i'itff i'er whatever that Winefrid White was 
W Holywell, and by bathing in the 
V ‘’Pring at that place; but we are not 
'V'*'-sf^"ist ^ behove that her cure was clfected by 
water to the cause of her 
I'e 
iievp J"«ce lor tms purpose, un ttie con- 
that the poor woman ^^■as cured by causes 
s .a 
C* enough 
asT^'^ ^'‘mngb so to sport with ete-;kai. 
*''Vj ''U'e . nssert that a capricious suspension of tl 
'l|f^ — «.* I At.lV./ Ll.T ASkli'w/l A ». 
i'eljp '^nk ])lace for th is purpose. On the 
