Yorkshire chap-books . To conclude: May what has been written, and the Placeswhich are yet to be feen, call to our Minds the Vanity alltranfitory Enjoyments whatfoever: And, whilft we feriouflyponder upon thefe Things, may we be incited to befeechAlmighty GOD, That the Members of CHRISTS HolyCatholick Church, now militant on Earth (particularly thatpure Part of it eflablifhed in this Kingdom) may, hereafter,through the Merits of our dear Redeemer, reign trium-phantly with HIM in Heaven. THE END. [276]. On Holy Wells. (Extracted by Permission, from Messrs. Chamberss Booh of Days.) JULY I, 1652,
Yorkshire chap-books . To conclude: May what has been written, and the Placeswhich are yet to be feen, call to our Minds the Vanity alltranfitory Enjoyments whatfoever: And, whilft we feriouflyponder upon thefe Things, may we be incited to befeechAlmighty GOD, That the Members of CHRISTS HolyCatholick Church, now militant on Earth (particularly thatpure Part of it eflablifhed in this Kingdom) may, hereafter,through the Merits of our dear Redeemer, reign trium-phantly with HIM in Heaven. THE END. [276]. On Holy Wells. (Extracted by Permission, from Messrs. Chamberss Booh of Days.) JULY I, 1652, the eccentric John Taylor, commonly calledthe Water Poet, from his having been a Waterman on theThames, paid a visit to St. Winifreds Well, at Holywell, inFlintshire. This was a place held in no small veneration evenin Taylors days; but in Catholic times, it filled great spaceindeed. There is something at once so beautiful and so bountiful ina spring of pure water, that no wonder it should become anobject of some regard among a simple people. We all feel theforce of Horaces abrupt and enthusiastic address, O FonsBlandusiai, splendidior vitro, and do not wonder that he shouldresolve upon sacrificing a kid to it. In the middle ages, whena Christian tinge was given to everything, the discovery of aspring in a romantic situation, or remarkable for the brightness,purity, or taste of its water, was forthwith followed by its de-dication to some Saint; and once placed among the category ofholy wells,
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