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¶ A Description of the wonder∣full vertue of the Bathes at Buckstone.
EVEN as, in our former Treatise, of the Bathes of Bathe, we haue shewed the an∣tiquitie, comoditie, propertie, vse, dyete, Aphorismes, & medicines, with all thinges requisite, in our iudgement, for to bée no∣ted and obserued of all such as ther intend (through knowledge) to séeke any bene∣fite. So, now it resteth that in this Treatice wée expresse lykewise the Benefyte of Buckstons Bathes, or Welles, in the hygh Peke, in the Countie of Darby, ten myles from the woorthie Edifices, Chatsworth .16. myles from Manche∣ster .16. myles from Market Chester field .20. from Darby, 30. from the famouse and auncient Citie Westchester, 30. from the Citie of Lychfield, 30. from Stafford.
Of the origine, of the name, and why it was called Buckstons well, I neyther could reade it in any Authour, nor heare of any as yet. This is asmuch, as I suppose, may bée gathered thereof, that it hath the name of the Towne: and the Towne lykewyse hath the name of some one so cal∣led (for of such there bée diuers) and the Danes and Saxons, aswell as the Britaynes were wont to name their townes after their own names, as it is euidēt of very many places in this lande: and a Saxon, or English name it is, and no Brittish, or Welsh: And therefore, sithence Engistus, it hath his denomination. Howbeit, many yeares past, it was fre∣quented for the health of thousandes, by bathing them: as∣well as it is in these our dayes. For, betwéene Burghe and it, there is an high way forced ouer the moores, all paued, of such antiquity as none can expresse, called Bathgate: albée it more of a superstitiouse hope they had in thywell, than of