Yorkshire chap-books . d, by popular faith, with powersmore or less miraculous. Shrewd Thomas Powell, writing in1631, says: Let them find out some strange water, some un-heard-of spring; it is an easy matter to discolour or alter thetaste of it in some measure, it makes no matter how strange cures that it hath done; beget a superstitiousopinion of it. Good-fellowship shall uphold it, and the neigh-bouring towns shall all swear for it. So early as 963, the Saxonking Edgar thought it necessary to forbid the worshipping offountains, and the canons of Anselm (1102) lay it down as aru
Yorkshire chap-books . d, by popular faith, with powersmore or less miraculous. Shrewd Thomas Powell, writing in1631, says: Let them find out some strange water, some un-heard-of spring; it is an easy matter to discolour or alter thetaste of it in some measure, it makes no matter how strange cures that it hath done; beget a superstitiousopinion of it. Good-fellowship shall uphold it, and the neigh-bouring towns shall all swear for it. So early as 963, the Saxonking Edgar thought it necessary to forbid the worshipping offountains, and the canons of Anselm (1102) lay it down as arule, that no one is to attribute reverence or sanctity to a foun-tain without the bishops authority. Canons, however powerful tofoster superstition, were powerless to control it; ignorance [ 277 ] invested springs with sanctity without the aid of the church, andevery county could boast of its holy well. The most famous holy well in the three kingdoms is un-doubtedly that dedicated to St. Winifred (Holywell, Flintshire),. St. Winifreds Well, Flintshire. at whose shrine Giraldus Cambrensis offered his devotions inthe twelfth century, when he says she seemed still to retain hermiraculous powers. The spring rises from a bed of shingle at the foot of a steephill, the water rushing out with great impetuosity, and flowing [278] into and over the main basin in a smaller one in front. Thewell is enclosed by a building in the perpendicular Gothic style(dating from the beginning of Henry VII.), which forms acrypt under a small chapel contiguous to the parish church, andon a level with it, the entrance to the well being by a descentof about twenty steps from the street. The well itself is a star-shaped basin, ten feet in diameter, canopied by a most gracefulstellar vault, and originally enclosed by stone traceried screensfilling up the spaces between the supports. Round the basin isan ambulatory similarly vaulted,* The sculptural ornamentsconsisted of grotesque animals, and the armorial-bea
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