“The fourth ternary is of three Wells, or Founteins,
of running or liuing waters, all which in those days were
famous for ther seuerall soueraigne vertues, their waters
were supposed to haue against diuers and sundry diseases:
the first of these is St. Loy's Well, which nowe is
nothing els but a deep pitte in the highway, on the West
side thereof, betweene his Cell and the Crosse, almost
midde way; it is always full of water, but neuer runneth
ouer; the water thereof, as they say, doth farre exceede
all the waters nere vnto it; it was within the memory of
man cast, to cleanse it, because it was almost fill'd vp
with muddle; and in the bottome of it there was found
a very fayre great stone, which had certaine characters
or letters engrau'n vpon it: but it being by the negligence
of the workmen broken and sorely defaced, and no
man nere that regarded such things, it is vnknown what
they were, or what they might signify.”
Bedwell.
our course was bent,