Manuscript poem which wittily suggests that the waters of Bath work their cures not as a result of salts and minerals but because women bathe in them, thereby sending forth healing
An attempt to explain whence the virtues of the Bath waters proceed
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- ReferenceGB 206 Brotherton Collection MS Lt q 1
- Dates of Creationca.1680
- Name of Creator
- Language of MaterialEnglish
- Physical Description1 f. Addressed on verso "To Mr Will. Roberts coast waiter at the custome house Lond." Recto now foliated 81, apparently when assembled into the same collection relating to Bath as that from which Brotherton Collection MS Lt q 13 derives.
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The author of the poem is unknown
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Purchased from Peter Murray Hill Ltd, October 1958
Note
In English
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