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A46281	A discourse of natural bathes, and mineral waters wherein, the original of fountains in general is declared, the nature and difference of minerals with examples of particular bathes, the generation of minerals in the earth, from whence both the actual heat of bathes, and their virtues proceed, by what means mineral waters are to be discover'd, and lastly, of the nature and uses of bathes, but especially of our bathes at Bathe, in Someerset-shire / by Edw. Jorden, Doctor in Physick.	Jorden, Edward, 1569-1632.; Guidott, Thomas, fl. 1698. Appendix concerning Bathe.	1669 (1669)	Wing J1074; ESTC R19762	134,265	263

who as 't is said in his Acts made the Hot Waters in Bath by the Art of Magick But this is rather to be ascrib'd to Nature since there are Baths in other places hotter than these But I have read that when the Prophet Elias desired it mignt rain then three Springs of Hot Water arose in that City useful for the Cure of Diseases of men He had a son named Leir who built Leycester Thus far the Author of the Manuscript whose rougher Latine Phrase I have smoothed what I could by a Paraphrastical Version From what hath been delivered may be collected that Bladut or Bladud as he is commonly called was the eighth King of the Britains from Brute and that his line was thus Brute Locrinus Mahan Manlinus Ebranc Bentgrevesheld Ludhudebras Bladut Now Brute being said to have come hither 1100 years before Christ allowing to the seven preceding Kings of which some Reigned more some less thirty years a piece for their Reign one with another it follows that Bladud lived near 900 years before Christ was born He is sometimes called Blaeydin Cloyth that is Blaeydin the Magician As to the Prophet Elias the time when he desired rain falls out to be according to computation in the year of the world 3040. nine hundred and some odd years before Christ so that this Prophet and King Bladud were Contemporaries and the antiquity reaches no higher on the account of the later opinion then the first And this is the highest pitch of Antiquity I find assigned to the Bathes as for the Periods asserted by others they come much short of both the former some ascribing their inventions to Julius Caesar fifty years or thereabouts before Christ which the learned Antiquarian Mr. 〈◊〉 thinks not so probable because Solinus who lived in the time of Titus Vespasian 130 years after or 83 years after Christ was the first of the Romans that made mention of them To which may be added that perhaps Julius Caesar came not so far up in the Land For whatever some flattering Poets and Historians may faconiously deliver certain it is that Julius Caesar made not so great a Conquest here as some do imagine Whence Tacitus writes that he discovered only not delivered unto the Romans Britain His words in the Life of Julius Agricola are these Primus omnium D. Julius cum exercitu Britanniam ingressus quanquam prospera pugna terruerit incolas ac littore potitus sit potest videri ostendisse posteris non tradidisse Horace also calls the Britan before Augustus untouch't And Mr. Cambden faith that it is so far off from being true which Patereulus reports bis penetrata Britannia à Caesare that Caesar passed twice through Britain that he scarce made entry into it For many years after this entrance of Caesar this Island was left to the free Government of their own Kings and used their own Laws The Saxon Names of Bathancester Hat Bathan and Akmanchester are of later date the Saxons not arriving here till the time of Theodosius the younger about the year of Christ according to the most probable Computation of Venerable Bede 428. Nay the later name of Akmanchester was not given till some few years after the year of Christ 577 when from a mean Condition to which this City was then reduc'd by War it again recovered strength and great dignity and from the great concourse of diseased people that came for Cure was called Akmanchester that is The City of Sickly Folks Neither can their Antiquity be much advanced by the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or Hot waters in Ptolomy Aquae Solis or Waters of the Sun of Antonine or Badiza of Stephanus more recent then the former but that which seems to come the nearest to the forementioned Opinion of Bladud and Elias is the British names of Y● Ennaint Caer Badon and above all Caer Paladdur that is the City of Pallas or Minerva's Water especially since Solinus affirms Minerva to have been the Patroness of these Bathes of which no doubt he writes in these words In Britain there are Hot Springs very curiously adorned and kept for mens use the Patroness of which is the Goddess Minerva There being also a tradition that there was formerly a Temple dedicated to Minerva where now the Church of St. Peter and Paul commonly called the Abbey Church stands I have read also in an Author that wrote of these Bathes almost 100 years ago and the first that wrote any thing considerable concerning them Dr. Turner in his Discourse of the English German and Italian Bathes making little better then a bare mention of them That the chief Spring of Bathe was in the Church-yard then dedicated to Minerva and after constituted to the Abbey of the Monks of the Order of St. Benedict Erected first by Blaeidin Cloyeth or Bladudus Magus that wife Magician a Britain the ninth King after Brute about the year of the world according to the Scripture account 3080 before the Incarnation of Christ 890. Helisaeus Prophet then in Israel But although I have some reason to distrust this Genealogie of Bladud which he acccording to the Custome of his Countrey drives as high as may be even unto Adam making Bladud the thirtieth man in a direct line from him yet I cannot but in some measure commend his Chronologie as being not much different from the account given before And whereas he affirms Bladud to have been the nineth King from Brute I find by comparing other Histories that Leill if the same with him whom the Author of Brutus Abr●viatus calleth Leyr was not Son to Bentgrevesheld but great Grand-child being Son to Bladud his that is Bentgrevesheld Grand-childs Son and so Leill whom he maketh Father to Ludhudebras not to come in before but after Bladud as being his Son and he the ninth King from Brute and not his Father Yet on the other hand I must say thus much that the name Carlyle a City said by the Author I fellow to be built by Bentgrevesheld dissonant from the custome of those times wherein the Founders usually called places after their own names and many of those especially to which they added Caer doth somewhat incline me think there might have been one Leill Son to Bentgrevesheld as some Historians mention and Founder of that place ascribed to his Father However the matter is not great whether Bladud was the eighth King from Brute as my Author supposes or the ninth or tenth as others I inferring no more from the preceding History then this That Bladud lived near 900 years before Christ since of the exact time of his flourishing more then by Conjecture by reason of the Confusion and Disagreement among Historians touching the Number and Succession of the Kings and time of their Reign we have no certain account But to be as particular as I may because some years passed between the Birth of those seven Kings mentioned before and the begining of their

Reigns and also because Gwenthlea or Guendoloena and Leill are said by other Historians to have Reigned 40 years viz. the former 15 the later 25 which are not there accounted for the surer way will be to take our account from the Year of the World Now Brute being reported to have entred Albion A.M. 2855 and Bladud to have begun his Reign A.M. 3100 the difference between these two numbers is 245 which being taken out of 1108 the year before Christ in which Brute came hither answering to the Year of the World 2855 the Remainder will be 863 the Year before Christ answering to the Year of the World 3100 so that according to this Computation Bladud began his Reign over the Britains just 863 years before Christ was born and Reigning 20 years died in the Year Ante Christum 843 I know Fabian the Author of Polychronicon and others differ somewhat in their Chronologie concerning Bladud from that I have given but I look on this to be as probable as any Alexander Necham a Poet of our own somewhat above 400 years ago with whom as to the Antiquity of the Bathes Dr. Jorden contents himself wrote these Verses on the Bathes BAthoniae Thermis vix praefero Virgillanas Confecto prosunt Balnea nostra seni prosunt Attritis Collisis Invalidisque Et quorum morbis frigida causa subest Praevenit humanum stabilis natura laborem Servit naturae legibus artis opus Igne suo succensa quibus data Balnea fervent AEnea subter aquas vasa latere putant Errorem figmenta solent inducere passim Sed quid Sulphureum novimus esse locum Which I thus made English BAthes Bains with Virgils I compare Usefull for antient folk they are Bruis'd weak consum'd as well as old And in al griefs whose source is cold Nature mans labour doth prevent And art again serves her intent There 's fire under-ground some say That thus makes Bathes great pots to play Fancy doth often Error breed But what from Brimstone these proceed CHAP. II. Of the Antiquity of the City of Bath and things relating thereunto Bathe called first Caer Blaeidin afterwards Caer Bathe When inhabited Coill and Edgar whose Statues stand at the end of the Council-house who and when they flourished Bathe besieged by the Saxons relieved by King Arthar Offa's Church Difference between the Mayor and Covent Hospitals Free-School The Author of the History of the Worthies of England censured and some of his mistakes discovered IT is not I think to be doubted but that the Bathes were before the City and gave Name to it Sick people in all probability that came hither for relief first making small Cottages for their Conveniences which were afterwards improved into fairer Buildings So that now in this particular there are few places in England that exceed it That this place was built or rather begun by King Bladud is the opinion of some and that he called it by his own Name Caer Blaeidin which sometime after came to be Caer Bathe That it was inhabited in the time of the Britains at least 50 years before Christ appears from the names they gave it of Caer Badon and Caer Palladdur of which before unless it be said that these Names might be given by some Britains in the Romans or Saxons time which seems not to carry any great probability Nay I find it recorded that in the year ante Christum 684. Sisillus or after some Writers Sylvius Brother of Gurgustus was made Ruler over Britain and reigning 49 years was buried at Caer Badon or Bath However many Roman Monuments there are Inscriptions and Images in the City walls and elsewhere of which Chap. 4. gives a particular Account which evidently prove its being frequented before the 412 year of Christs Incarnation about which time or as others account 430 the Roman Jurisdiction ceased in this Island The Statues also of Coill a British King and Edgar a Saxon who are said to have given Charters to this City placed at the end of the Town-Hall or Council-House are Arguments of its Antiquity Coill that I may speak somewhat briefly of him was an Earl in the time of Asclepiades whom the Britains after the death of Lucius being wearied out with a bloody intestine War which lasted more than 50 years were at last conftrained to elect their King about the year of Our Lord 250. Afterwards aspiring to be greater and building a Town which from himself he called Colchester Asclepiades began to fear him and raising an Army met him in the field in which Battle Aselepiades was slain and shortly after Coill chosen King who governed the Britains with a great deal of honour and having married his Daughter Helena to Constantius sent from Rome into Britain to demand Tribute not long after dyed and was buried at Colchester yet some there are who ascribe the building of this Town to Coilus Son of Marucis and Father of Lucius King of the Britains A. D. 126. Edgar one of the later Kings of the Saxons bestowed on this City as Mr. Cambden reports very many Immunities the memory of which thing even in his time the Citizens yearly with solemn playes did celebrate He was a stout man and is said to have had none like him on this side Arthur bearing this stile about the year 970. The Monarch of all Albion Or as it is elsewhere more largely express'd King of English-men and of all the Kings of the Islands of the British Ocean and all the Nations contained in Britain Emperour and Lord. A Souldier he was in the Camp of Cupid as well as Mars and is noted for this That having a mind to Estrilda the Wife of Athelwold he placed him as David did Uriah in the front of a Battel against the Danes in the defence of York where Athelwold being slain Edgar married his Widdow but was so severely check'd by Saint Dunstant that he ever after lived a religions life and having reigned 17 years bid adieu to the World and was buried at Glastonbury Edgar began his reign about the year of Christ 959. but was not Crowned till 12 years after A.D. 971. which was done according to some writers at Bath to others at Kingston by Dunstan Arch-Bishop of Canterbury who some say was banished at that time and Oswald Arch-Bishou of York his Coronation was deferred because of his impetuous inclinations to the female Sex and especially to one wilfride who to avoid the Kings Caresses took on her the habit of a Nun but in vain for he had his pleasure and got on her a daughter named Edith for which offence he was enjoyned seven years penance and lived not long after his Coronation About the year 472 or 44 years after their arrival here out of Germany the English Saxons besieged this City with whom King Arthur fought a great Battel on Mons Badonicus now called Bannesdowne and slew so many of them that they had