I am indebted to my daughter Dorothy for the sketch of the Tuewhit Well.
JAMES RUTHERFORD.
_Saint Mungo,
12, York Road,
Harrogate, 1921._
_Biographical Notes_ OF _Edmund Deane, M.D. and others in relation to
the Tuewhit Well, The English Spa_.
BY ALEX. BUTLER, M.B.
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES
_=of Edmund Deane and others in relation to the English Spa.=_
The present reprint of "Spadacrene Anglica" should arouse a keen
literary interest in its author, Edmund Deane, and in the early history
of Harrogate. As one who had the privilege of reading the original
edition of this work, belonging to Dr. Rutherford, I was struck by the
marked contrast between Deane's account of the history of the medicinal
waters of Harrogate, and that which is to be found in more recent
writings on that subject.
These modern accounts cannot be better or more authoritatively
exemplified than by taking a short extract from the article "Harrogate"
in the "Encyclopaedia Britannica."[1]
"The principal chalybeate Springs are the Tewitt well called by Dr.
Bright, who wrote the first account of it, the English Spaw,
discovered by Captain William Slingsby of Bilton Hall, near the
close of the 16th.
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