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* County of Lancaster, being possessed and tormented by a weeked spirite, m. beacd for receaving (as it was reported) the most blessed* Sacrament unworthOy, and having been a long time exordsed by the learned gentlemen 31' Kellingam and Xr Browne, ai last the weeked quiit being nrged by the foree of the sacred eiorcismes, toold them (mnch against his will, as it seemed) that he would depart me. prius unlese* the powessed went to HolywdL Wbereuppon both the foresayd gentlemen went with him thither 1607 with diverse others, against the feast of the Decollation of B*S. Wenefride, being the 22* June. Where all of them goinginto the sacred wdl with greate devotion, praying earnestly to God that by the inter* cession of S. Wenefride hemight be delivered from this torment, the sayd young man sensibly pereeaved the weecked spirit to depart froin him, and soe ever after
remamed free from all sudi molestations.

X.An. 1608. Puerula, in rivum qui ex sacro fonte oritur casu delapsa et vi aquarum sub rotam molendini delata, prodigiose ab attritione servatur. Simile miraculum refertur inferius ad antium
1666.

nomen pm- In the yeare 1608 one*, a daughter of Roger Maddock, a joyner dwelling in

taFii*wT Ho^*wc towne, being about 4 year old, followed her mother going downe to the
sacred Wdl, and whilest her mother was busie washinge linnens in the streame of the weO, the child playing by the water side unawares feli thereinto, and was carried by the force of the streame to the miU (which was then actually grindinge corne), and it being an undershott mill, she was strangdy convayed under the greate waterwhede thereof, and furthera good distance beond it, where she was taken up safe and sound, having receaved no harme at all, saving that about half an inche bredth of the skin on the right side of her forehead was a little brnsed or scratched. This miraculous accident was notoriously known all over the towne of Holy-well. Thomas the miller and the mother were eye-wittnesses thereof, and were living 16 after to testifie it And the sayd Thomas prostested, that 7 dayes after six or seven goselings were in the same way and manner car ried by the force of the water under* the sayd wheele and thereuppon were presently killed He affirmed also in like manner, that whilst he kept the sayd mill, heknewfive other young children, that in the same manner had been violently carried under the sayd wheele and had no harme at all thereby.

XL An. 1617. Mulier, fontis sacri virtuti incredula, repentina caecitate divinitus mulctatur; ad fontem reversa ac saepius illi im mersa et oculos aqua ex illo hausta abluens, aliquatenus visum recipit.
OneLowry Davies, daughter to Maurice Davies of Carnavon, gentleman, in summer 1617 went on foot in pilgrimage (as the costume in catholique times was)to

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