THE CHIGWELL ROW MEDICINAL SPRINGS. 63
points of interest in the manuscript. For the annotations
dealing with chemical and geological points, I am indebted to
our member, Mr. W. H. Dalton, F.G.S., F.C.S., to whom our
best thanks are due. I hope that, at some later date, I may
be able to publish a chemical analysis of the water of the
well described hereafter. In present circumstances, all those
competent to make such an analysis are so busy with other
and more immediately-urgent work that I have not ventured
to ask any one to undertake an analysis.
I have also to thank Mr. Arthur Savill, of White Hall,
Chigwell Row (in the grounds of which one of the wells in
question is), both for information in regard to it and for
kindly allowing me to visit and inspect it.
With these brief introductory remarks, I proceed to repro-
duce the text of the manuscript. I have omitted those portions
(about one-half of the whole), which are of general interest only
and have little or no special bearing upon the Chigwell-Row
Spring. I have omitted also the marginal keynotes, inasmuch
as they convey absolutely no information not to be found in
the text itself, with the exception of one small item, which is
known from other sources. The archaic punctuation and
capitalisation of the manuscript, I have modernised for the
convenience of present-day readers, but otherwise I have left
the writer's diction quite unaltered.
The manuscript reads, then, as follows:—
A short Account of the MINERAL
WATER found at Chigwell Row,
in the County of ESSEX.
This County, especially the hilly parts of it, has been
remarkable for the variety of Medicinal Waters which have been
taken notice of from time to time by several able physicians
and historians11; and, upon a strict examination, I find the
water which vents itself at several openings at Chigwell Row,
in the Parish of Chigwell, is as much deserving of notice as any
in the County and, I doubt not, will be found as efficacious in
many chronical diseases as any in the Kingdom.
11 Here the writer adds a foot-note "Vide Cam. Brit."; but I can find no edition of
Camden's Britannia in which the mineral waters of Essex ate noticed. The various other
works on the subject to which the writer alludes are enumerated in Christy and Thresh's
Mineral Waters and Medicinal Springs of Essex, pp. 6-10 (1910).