Coley about 1681, but it
tooke no effect.
"Advertisement.- At Seen (neer ye Devizes in Wiltshire) are springs
discovered to be of the nature and vertue of those at Tunbridge, and
altogether as good. They are approved of by severall of ye physitians
of the Colledge in London, and have donne great cures, viz.
particularly in the spleen, the reines, and bladder, affected with
heat, stone, or gravell; or restoring hectick persons to health and
strength, and wonderfully conducing in all cases of obstructions."
I proceeded and tryed other wells, but my ingeniose faithfull servant
Robert Wiseman (Prudhome) tryed all the wells in the village, and
found that all the wells of the south side doe turne with galles more
or lesse, but the wells of the north side turne not with them at all.
This hill lies eastward and westward; quod N.B.
The water of Jo. Sumner's well was so bad for household use that they
could not brew nor boyle with it, and used it only to wash the house,
&c.; so that they were necessitated to sinke a well in the common,
which is walled, about a bow shott or more from his dwelling house,
where is fresh and wholsome water. Memorandum. Dr. Grew in his
[Catalogue] of the Royall Society has mistaken this well in the common
for the medicinall well of J. Sumner. But, mem., there is another well
that turnes, I thinke, as deep as J. Sumner's. [On the subject of this
discovery by Aubrey, to which he attached great importance, the reader
is referred to Britton's "Memoir of Aubrey", published by the
Wiltshire Topographical Society, p.
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