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A68781	Nevves out of York-shire: or, an account of a iovrney, in the true discovery of a soueraigne minerall, medicinall water, in the West-Riding of Yorke-shire, neere an ancient towne called Knaresbrough, not inferiour to the spa in Germany Also a taste of other minerall waters of seuerall natures adioyning. By M.S.	Stanhope, Michael.	1627 (1627)	STC 23228; ESTC S100969	17,939	48

say and that of no great compasse aduanced their heads aboue many States that possesse large fertile Dominions What Cities of magnifique structure doe they inhabit How doe they abound in all manner of profitable Manifactures Into what place of the habitable world haue the not trafficke How haue they bearded that same christendome-threatning-Christendome-threatning-Monarch the Catholique King and done him more shame maugre all his Indian Bullion than all his farre-fetcht conquests haue gained him credit And whence comes this their prosperity and encrease of potency if not from a generall circumspection sagacity in their affaires cherishing all manner of vsefull Arts and aduantagious knowledge and not suffering any vnprofitable weeds I meane idle persons to harbour amongst them Whereas we by what conniuence I know not giue way to more loytering droanes and common able beggars to swarme in our streets than would serue to people a larger circuit of ground than they possesse Whence is it that our Alehouses and Tauernes are in such request in all good Townes but that they are so frequented with idle companions that their custome is thought now adaies a constant faire reuenue And hence it is that most of our Townes-masters obseruing the humor and current of the times howsoeuer they make a shew of some bundles of Flax a few bars of Iron or such like stuffe in their shops yet the plaine English is Corne is the maine prop of their estates of Corne Barley which they know will off when all other commodities sticke fast Thus come Tipling-houses to be in such request so countenanced in their excesse of riot and abuse of measure those who are appointed Gouernouts but may more properly be tearmed Ouerseers wincking at disorder because like Flies they deriue a great part of their Being from the corruptions sores of the times Indeed we doe but too much abound in all necessary comforts and this is it which hath so infected vs with a lazie Lethargy that through a long habit of ease we are growne vncapable of sustaining any paines Hath not our long continued peace brought vs to a strange passe being neither employed at home in fit labour nor suffered to passe abroad but with strange restrictions and limitations when wee are become the prostitutes of forraigne derision T is how the golden Age was when wee were held a terrour to the proudest of our neighbours our alliance was sought vnto as a shelter and they were safest whom the wings of our amity did shadow but we are now so ferre from being remembred with the least phrase of respect in regard of our present stupidity and base sufferings that a beggarly base fisher-Towne fit to be nothing but what it is a Cacus his den and receptacle of pilfering Pyrats dares braue vs at our own doores so that not a Merchant but feares to put forth his head to passe from one of our Ports to another We are daily defied vpon the skirts of our owne coasts so that not a weeke doth passe which bringeth not forth some sad tydings euen in our view to the vndoing or hazarding of many a poore family O the benummed temper of these our daies when we who were the great Masters of these our Seas are now growne such fordide slaues that we are scornfully trampled vpon and beaten at our owne weapon We sit by our fires side wish all were well scatter now and then a few words of feare as if our hearts did mis-giue all were not well but that some terror were at hand and yet none so bold of so Roman a resolution or so louing to his Countrey as to proclaime our hazard or giue warning of a storme which whensoeuer it shall breake forth which God auert and yet considering our too wellknowen weaknesse and supine carelesnesse besides the deluges of many crying sinnes it may be feared it is not farre off we shall be found but an amazed sort of staggering slumberers scarce awake Yet I hope in this our Israel I was about to haue said Sodome for in fulnesse of bread if not in other her abominations we may be suspected to haue too great a share there will be found some faithfull Abrahams who will make bold to speake vnto the Lord againe and againe that he will not destroy the righteous with the wicked We haue lately smarted vnder the hand of the Almighty by a grieuous visitation and we see blessed be his name he hath caused his Angell to s tay his hand so that there is mercy with our God O that we had grace to feare him If this will not warne vs but that we will still go on in a carelesse course we cannot but expect which he who was according to Gods owne heart did tremble to make choice on to fall into the hands of our enemies whose swords haue long thirsted after our bloud Yet since most mighty Lord God thy prouidence hath hitherto miraculously watched ouer vs O howsoeuer our sinnes do most iustly prouoke thee to hide thy face from vs bee not farre off thou preseruer of man when wee call vpon thee Euer preserue and graciously defend our dread Soueraigne Keepe farre from him such as were the young Counsellors of Rehoboam when they would whisper into his sacred eares the encrease of our burthens or the doubling of our taxes let their tongues cleaue vnto the roofe of their mouthes Let those be deare vnto him who sincerely tender the glory of thy great Name that so Religion may first in all consultations be aduanced and established Antichristian Matchiauelliās may be extirpated the publike good by a carefull prouiding for our safery at home before we embroile our selues abroad may be secured that other Nations seeing our prosperity may be forced to say of vs Blessed are the people who are in such a case The issue of this long digression besides that a sudden apprehension of our threatning hazard by the tollerated multiplying of Romish Locusts and the extreame weaknesse of our coasts did transport me is only to shew that if we were so cautelous as befits vs and so solicitous as we should be of the publike good this our happy Ile doth afford matter sufficient of vsefull consequence partly by a free equall trade abroad partly by exercise at home to employ all the rusty hands and idle mouldy braines amongst vs which till it be with more care aduised on than it hath beene long but especially of late let vs neuer expect to returne to our pristine farre-spred glory It was pitty this our new Spa did not first fall into the hands of some of our iugling imposturing Romish Priests for if they by their Mountebank trickes are able to draw from most parts of the Kingdome to one of their Sainted Wells a world of people some whereof they cure meerely with conceit of their waters soueraignty others ayling little or nothing they can perswade to publish of themselues stupendious cures of desperate diseases which being for the aduancement of the Catholike cause though in it selfe a base lie yet with them is but a veniall peccadelio if I say these brazen fac't Empericks are able to goe so farre with an ordinary plaine water what a shame is it for vs who haue such a reall vertuall Spring nay many and that within a small distance thus to be out-stript with their legerdemaine In the latter end of this Summer there was another Spring discouered by Dr. Leake a Physitian of Yorke a mile neerer the Towne of Knaresbrough than is the Tuit-well It is held to be as good as the other of the same taste and consequently of the same facultie So that now we may boldly challenge the Spa in Germany for as they haue their two acide Fountaines Sauenir and Pohon we equall them and want nothing but names to giue ours the greater sound But it is time to strike saile I might and not vnaptly take occasion before I conclude to publish many rarities which the Towne of Knaresbrough and the bordering places doth afford as the variety of stone Quarries the seuerall sorts of Earths rare Plants and other most obseruable specialties Here also might I not impertinently insist a little of the famous chronicled dropping Well seated vnder the Towne which turneth whatsoeuer is cast into it or casually falls in as stickes leaues and mosse into a firme stone which shewes it to be of a most astrictiue quality and of appliable vse A proofe hereof was made the precedent Summer by a stranger who casually passing this way hauing been long troubled with a flix was counselled to drinke of this water which other meanes failing he willingly did and within a few daies was perfectly cured of the disease That these Fountains also arc conueniently seated neere a Towne of ample receipt for strangers is not to be omitted Yet these and many other remarkable aduantages I am content to slip ouer hoping some generous spirit will vndertake their more ample discouery which would be an act well-becomming any one who desireth to perpetuate his name in the Catalogue of such as haue giuen luster to their Countrey By this meanes the wonderments of this place seriously related and divulged we may haue iust cause to glorifie God who amongst other his vnnumbered fauours both concerning our soules and bodies hath added the knowledge of these waters and his vndeserued mercies considered we may truly confesse He hath not dealt so with any other Nation FINIS

Newes out of York-Shire OR AN ACCOUVNT OF A IOVRNEY IN THE TRVE DISCOVERY OF a soueraigne Minerall Medicinall Water in the West-Riding of Yorke-shire neere an ancient Towne called Knaresbrough not inferiour to the Spa in Germany Also a taste of other Minerall Waters of seuerall natures adioyning BY M. S. ECCLESIAST 38.4 The Lord hath created Medicines out of the Earth and he that is wise will not despise them LONDON Printed by I. H. for George Gibbes and are to be sold at his Shop in Popes-head Alley 1627. TO TO THE RIGHT HONOVRABLE THE vertuous and religious Lady the Lady Katherine Stanhope wife to the Lord Philip Stanhope Baron of Shelford RIGHT HONOVRABLE THis short ensuing Discourse begotten and brought forth in the silent houres of a solitary retirement I intended at first for the vse of some priuate friends whom I desired to satisfie in the particular discouery of an English Spa water It pleased some of them vpon view hereof to moue me to publish it for that in the whole passage I personate my selfe an eye-witnesse of all circumstances which they perswaded me would giue a better glosse vnto the subiect than any here-say relation A diffidence of whatsoeuer passeth my pen caus'd me a while suspend my resolution when suddenly my humble thoughts reflected vpon your Honour and then in an instant I apprehended a faire Sun-shine of occasion to publish vnto the world my vowed respects Amongst the vnlimited variety of your Ladiships rare endowments I haue obserued your spacious vnderstanding to reach not onely to a singular measure of the diuine Concernments of the soules sauing knowledge your obseruable practise simpathizing with the Theory but with an extraordinary curiosity to search into the Cabinets of Natures choisest secrets especially those which concerne Medicinall and Physicall vse wherein your succesfull hand hath vouchsafed to administer in time of need with blest euent Hence is it that I haue presumed not omitting the tie of many noble refreshments and honourable fauours to appropriate this subiect which presenteth vnto the world one of Natures choisest Iewels vnto your Honour vnder the Sanctuary of whose vertuous protection I am bold to promise to my selfe inuiolable safety from the rage of all snarling detraction It may be your noble Lord to whose immerited support of my weak fortunes I shall euer owe a gratefull memory might expect the addresse of my first fruits vnto his Honour but I purposely reserue my selfe till a more ample occasion be presented wherein my paines may be more enlarged I haue no greater hope to animate my assurance of a gracious acceptation than the pleasing remembrance of your fauourable eie formerly cast vpon some dawnings of my weake endeauoures Faile I not herein I haue arriued next vnto the publike good at the wish't Ports of my desires which as they haue euer prized so shall they continue restlesse in the pursuit of your Ladiships allowable esteemes neuer to be sufficiently valued by Your Honours most humble seruant M. ST To the Reader AT what time this relation of our English Spa was though cursorily composed the title of Newes out of Yorke-shire which like a Signe I fixed at the Portall of the discourse was not improper That many Moneths are past since it was capable of the Character of the Presse and ready drest to encounter the publike view it shall suffice there are diuers can witnesse with the casualty of its protraction There are I confesse many by-circumstances enterlaced which though they aime at lapsed time yet are they not altogether misappliable to the present In substance I differ not much from the Spadacrene lately published by a graue Doctor the garbe onely of my particularising I challenge as mine As for such pedanticke Formalists who haply may tax mee for digressing from the proposed subiect let such know I hold it the greatest slauery in the world to be tied to their vnnecessary rules But for thee gentle Reader be but pleased to obserue the occasion of the liberty I take and then I hope the dulnesse of the times considered which had need of a lash to be rowzed thou wilt not think I roaue very impertinently Yet before I leaue thee I must craue thy patience as one tendering the common good whilest I offer to thy consideration some cautions in the vse of these Waters which if I mistake not are of such reall consequence that neglected their expected effects are made frustrate That the worth and excellency of Physicall helpes consisteth not in the remedies themselues as one well obserueth but in their wise and prudent dispensation is so vndoubted a position as none but such as scorne the clew of reason should guide their vnderstanding in the Labyrinth of so many vncertainties as are abroach in the world will deny And hence it is that Medicines iudiciously dispensed are said to be as Angels of God sent for the good of men but inconsiderately vsed they are Messengers of death Yet such is the giddy precipitation of many especially the meaner sort of people that they no sooner heare of a secret be it a medicinall Water or what else that promiseth health but all fit circumstances set apart they violently rush vpon it perswading themselues out of a passionate desire to be refreshed a sudden laying hold vpon any nouelty to be the most aduantagious course Nay how many are there who vpon notice of a new-found medicinall Spring like this of ours question not the infallibility of its curing all manner of diseases the sottishnesse of which fancy is so grosse that I will not doe it the grace of opposition Nor are the vulgar onely bleared with this misty conceit for I haue heard of our Empericall hyperbolists who take a pride as one saith to Monopolize cures vnto the prerogatiue of one Secret who haue auouched it as a thing feasable to compose a medicine able to cure any disturbance incident to Nature But I leaue these with their quaint cratchets to themselues and worse company I know not how to wish them and come to the obseruances I desire may duely be considered of such as intend the vse of this our Water And first I wish that whosoeuer the parties be before they attempt the vse of the water they repaire to the learned Physitian especially such as haue been conuersant in the vse and quality of the water and make knowne to him their distemper that so consideration may be had of the aptnesse of the waters faculty how it stands qualified to the affected part which is of such conducing sequele that the omitting hereof hath proued fatall to many For who but the Physitian whose profession it is is fit to iudge of the multitude of causes in diseases what varying differences arise in the manner quality quantity and times of remedies wherein the party either ignorant or mistaken medicines of sauing and curing power out of time and place disposed bring forth mischiefe and many inconueniences instead of helpe It being