THE CHIGWELL ROW MEDICINAL SPRINGS. 63 
points of interest in the manuscript. For the annotations 
dealing with chemical and geological points, I am indebted to 
•our member, Mr. W. H. Dalton, F.G.S., F.C.S., to whom our 
best thanks are due. I hope that, at some later date, I may 
be able to publish a chemical analysis of the water of the 
well described hereafter. In present circumstances, all those 
competent to make such an analysis are so busy with other 
and more immediately-urgent work that I have not ventured 
to ask any one to undertake an analysis. 
I have also to thank Mr. Arthur Savill, of White Hall, 
Chigwell Row (in the grounds of which one of the wells in 
question is), both for information in regard to it and for 
kindly allowing me to visit and inspect it. 
With these brief introductory remarks, I proceed to repro¬ 
duce the text of the manuscript. I have omitted those portions 
(about one-half of the whole), which are of general interest only 
■and have little or no special bearing upon the Chigwell-Row 
Spring. I have omitted also the marginal keynotes, inasmuch 
-as they convey absolutely no information not to be found in 
the text itself, with the exception of one small item, which is 
known from other sources. The archaic punctuation and 
-capitalisation of the manuscript, I have modernised for the 
convenience of present-day readers, but otherwise I have left 
the writer’s diction quite unaltered. 
The manuscript reads, then, as follows :— 
A short Account of the MINERAL 
WATER found at Chigwell Row, 
in the County of ESSEX. 
This County, especially the hilly parts of it, has been 
remarkable for the variety of Medicinal Waters which have been 
taken notice of from time to time by several able physicians 
and historians 11 ; and, upon a strict examination, I find the 
water which vents itself at several openings at Chigwell Row, 
in the Parish of Chigwell, is as much deserving of notice as any 
in the County and, I doubt not, will be found as efficacious in 
many chronical diseases as any in the Kingdom. 
11 Here the writer adds a foot-note “Vide Cam. Brit. ” ; but I can find no edition of 
'Camden’s Britannia in which the mineral waters of Essex are noticed. The various other 
works on the subject to which the writer alludes are enumerated in Christy and Thresh’s 
•Mineral IT alers and Medicinal Springs of Essex, pp. 6-10 (1910). 
