Spadacrene Anglica: The English Spa FountainDeane, Edmund
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Spadacrene Anglica: The English Spa Fountain
Deane, Edmund
Health resorts; Mineral waters -- England -- Harrogate -- Early works to 1800
First I give & bequeath to Mr. Roger Belwood my pastor thirty
shillings.
Item I give to the poore people of the Cittye of Yorke three pounds
XX^s whereof to be distributed to the poore of the Warde where I
now live and the remmant to the poore of the other three Wardes
equally to be divided.
Item I give to the poore prisoners of the castle of Yorke XX^s and
to the poore prisoners on Ousebridge called the Kidcoate X^s and to
the poore prisoners of S^t. Peters prison in Yorke X^s.
Item I give to the poore people of the old hospitall or massing
dewes of the Citty of Yorke thirty shillings. Item whereas....
Item my Will meaninge and harty desire is that my nowe loveing wife
Mary Deane shall & may quietly have & enjoye all her widdowe rights
whatsoever according to this pvince of Yorke w^{th}out any further
trouble molestac̅on or vexac̅on or suite in lawe and that my
Executor shall not make any claime to any such goods or plate as
she the said Mary had in her former widdowhood & brought w^th her
to me att her marriage w^th me. Item I give to my said nowe loveing
wife as a legacy my coatch horses & furniture & what hay or oates,
coales, turfes & fuell shall be in my howse att my death. Item I
give....
Item I give to Margery Smeton yf shee be my servant at my death
forty shillings and to each other of my servants att my death tenn
shillings.
All the rest of my goods & chattells unbequeathed, my debts and
funerall expenses discharged I give and bequeath to my loveing
nephewe Mr. John Deane of Saltonstall Atturney in his Maty Court of
Com̅on Pleas att Westminster & eldest sonne of my late brother
Gilbert Deane of Saltonstall deceased w^ch said John Deane I doe
ordayne constitute & make my sole & onely Executor of this my last
Will & Testament
And for as much as most of my Estate doth consist in debts, w^ch
will require tyme for gathering in, my Will & meaneing is that this
my said executor shall have twelvemonethes tyme for the payment of
the greater legacies....
And further my meaneing is That for as much as my said Executor
John Deane by Gods pvidence is likely to be lame by a fall & not to
live & followe his profession as an Atturney to London (but as it
weare undone) whome I have made my onely & sole Executor of this my
last Will & Testament. Therefore all my nephews & kindred may know
I have given them small legacy to doe him good
In Witness.... etc.
In "Spadacrene Anglica" Deane mentions that "out of the divers fountains
springing hereabouts" five are worthy the observation of physicians.
These are--
1.--The Dropping Well.
2.--The Sulphur Well at Bilton Park.
3.--The Sulphur Well near Knaresborough.
4.--The Sulphur Well at "Haregate head."
5.--The Tuewhit Well, or The English Spaw.
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