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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A14591	Newes out of Cheshire of the new found well	G. W., fl. 1600.	1600 (1600)	STC 24904; ESTC S101818	14,872	30

antiquities doe affirme to haue been a Citie and it should seeme indeede to haue been a walled Towne there founded and built by Eadelfleda a Queene of Merceland and the place to this day is called Eades burie whereof the whole hundred being a seuenth part of the shire reteyneth still the name The Borrough or Towne being now vtterly decaied and gone there remaineth onely vpon the top of the vtmost height within that situation a proper built lodge called the Chamber and hath been for the most part maintained and inhabited by a famous race of Gentlemen the Dones of whome for certaine hundreds of yeares Knights and Squires of that surname hauing still by inheritance been masters of the game or chiefe Forresters there haue left good remembrances of their worthes and great reputation to all posteritie and is now possessed by a worshipfull Gentleman Iohn Done Esquire whom the rather I am bolde here by name to mention because of his charitable disposition and gentlemanlike furtherance of the benefit of this Well to the reliefe of all sorts of people that seeke for helpe by it About a mile and halfe from the chamber toward the Southwest side of the forrest is situate the Newfound VVel All the Westerly and Southerly side of the forrest is mountanous and full of vaste vneuen hilles scattringly beautified with many Okes yet most of them shrubby and of low growth and not fewe queaches thicks of Hull and Hauthornes the hils themselues for the most part distinguished by galles and gutters made by waters falling from springs and other places which in continuance of time haue worne and eaten deepe passages In the side of one of these hilles whose declining lyeth almost full vpon the North and North-east ariseth the spring head and fountaine it selfe now called the New found Well the same insensibly issuing from firme ground at the roote or foote of a shrubbie hull or hollintree yet so as the same hull standing at the South-west corner of the Well there is some twentie inches distance betweene them The Well or Cesterne being bordered with three or foure flagge stones as the compasse of it without breaking any earth about it would giue leaue is almost foure square conteyning South and North about 30. inches West and East about 26. inches Whether the Spring issue vpright from the bottome or from the one side or from all sides it is not perceiued I rather iudge it comes at the South side which is the backe of it and beares against the descent of the hill If it should bubble forth at the bottome as in many other Welles I haue seene this water being so cleare it might be easily perceiued especially the Spring being free and yeelding continuall issue in a good proportion I haue seene indeed many orderly Springes farre exceede it in strength and bignesse of gush yet haue I not known any to keepe a more certain and vniforme course nor deliuer his water in so close and vnperceiueable manner as this Well doth The force or streame which the Spring is well able to maintaine is about so much water as you may imagine would continually runne at ful through a pipe or tronke whose concaue or hollow were three or foure inches compasse The descent of the hill beneath the Well Northward is steepe and the waste water falling North from the fountaine hath both of it owne course and shortly meeting with some other rilles worne the ground to a great hollow dingle which carrieth them downe to a brooke at the foote of the hill by which they are conueyed to a great poole of Sir Iohn Egertons neere little Budworth which serueth Olton Milles so that albeit the Spring sendeth his water at the first Northerly yet within lesse then one quarter of a miles labour it windeth about the hill skirte and then holdeth his course full Southerly What the vaines of the Earth about it may be or from what manner of mixture the Spring should issue I dare not take vpon me to set downe hauing neither skill to iudge of such matters nor hauing had meanes as yet to procure search made to finde the nature of the mould whence it springes which I know would be greatly materiall to such as haue skill and knowledge how to iudge of the power and efficacie of the water thereby All that I can say in this respect is that the vpper part or face of the earth there seemes to be a stiffe clay insomuch that the resorters thither hauing made some one or two slender weake dammes to stay the water halfe a dozen yards or more beneath the fountaine there are by that meanes two small lakes or pooles wherein poore people when they are disposed do bathe and wash themselues Which pooles though they be verie vnfit for that purpose being verie vnhandsomely thicke muddy with the clay and soyle of the earth yet they shew the fitnesse and commodious means how cesternes or some handsome prouisions might be made either open or close for the people of all sortes to vse their best benefit and that so farre from the head of the Spring and so much beneath the bodie and seate of the fountaine it selfe that there were no perill by breaking or digging the ground to worke anie annoiance or hinderance to the vertue of the Spring or water thereof There be many that at their first taste of the water doe confidently affirme they feele as it were some relish or smacke of an allome-like composition and not a fewe I haue heard censure that there seemes to them a little resemblance of the tast of Licoris some compare it to some other things for my part because I am purposed to auerre nothing herein but what I am verilie perswaded to be true as I can allow of no mans taste to be authenticall in this point vnlesse I could also find it in mine own so truly I must confesse that it is a water different from manie other Spring waters in taste and the most pleasantest in drinking of anie that I haue euer tasted onely the relish is to me of no especiall thing that I can name and the operation such as in my iudgement and by experiment vpon mine owne and manie others bodies it neuer offendeth with cold or heauy weight in a mans stomack as the most sorts of waters vsually doe It is one thing most notorious and worthie to be so that no persons of anie sort whatsoeuer which take it in anie good quantitie but can and do report that they find difference in the operation of it from other waters and most cōmonly it is obserued that to such as are vnhealthfull and grieued with some infirmitie they are sure by the water to finde in themselues some alteration to such as are healthfull and verie sound of bodie it either worketh no motion at all or if anie it looseth the bellie and giueth most gentle and hurtlesse purgations That there may be some alluminous mixture within the ground by which the