, entitled, "Organon
Salutis, an instrument to cleanse the stomach: with new experiments on
Tobacco and Coffee." The work quoted seems to have been popular in its
day, for there were three editions of it published. (London, 1657,
1659, 1664, 12mo.)-J. B.]
THE inscription over the chapell dore of St. Giles, juxta Wilton, sc.
"1624. This hospitall of St. Giles was re-edified by John Towgood,
Maior of Wilton, and his brethren, adopted patrons thereof, by the
gift of Queen Adelicia, wife unto King Henry the first." This Adelicia
was a leper. She had a windowe and a dore from her lodgeing into the
chancell of the chapell, whence she heard prayers. She lieth buried
under a plain marble gravestone; the brasse whereof (the figure and
inscription) was remaining about 1684. Poore people told me that the
faire was anciently kept here.
At Maiden Bradley, a maiden infected with the leprosie founded a house
for maidens that were lepers. [See a similar statement in Camden's
"Britannia," and Gough's comments thereon.-J. B.]
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Ex Registro. Anno Domini 1582, May 4, the plague began in Kington St.
Michaell, and lasted the 6th of August following; 13 died of it, most
of them being of the family of the Kington's; which name was then
common, as appeared by the register, but in 1672 quite extinct.
[The words "here the plague began," and "here the plague rested,"
appear in the parish register of Kington St.
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