 | Henrico Gehle - 1838 - 130 pages
...Jam vero , quum epitome tíiere is a well , called Bede'i well , to which as late at the year Л 40 , it was a prevailing custom to bring- children troubled...in , and the well laved dry between each dipping. My informant has seen twenty children brought together on a Sunday to be dipped in this well ; at which... | |
 | 1841 - 894 pages
...E and received the full order of priesthood from the same prelate in his thirtieth year (707). Bede was buried in a porch, built to his honour, on the...this well ; also on Midsummer Eve there was a great resorf of neighbouring people with bonfires, music, &c. — Surtefs. Local Sec. 740. — Cynewulf was... | |
 | John Brand - Christian antiquities - 1841 - 356 pages
...Bedei Well, to which as late as the year 1740 it was a prevailing custom to hring children trouhled with any disease or infirmity ; a crooked pin was put in, and the well laved dry hetween each dipping. My informant has seen twenty children hrought together on a Sunday to he dipped... | |
 | Saint Bede (the Venerable) - 1843 - 438 pages
...mile to the west of Jarrow there is a well, called Bede's well, to which as late as the year 1740, it was a prevailing custom to bring children troubled...put in, and the well laved dry between each dipping. My informant has seen twenty children brought together on a Sunday to be dipped in this well ; at which... | |
 | Saint Bede (the Venerable) - Abbots - 1843 - 442 pages
...mile to the west of Jarrow there is a well, called Bede's well, to which as late as the year 1 740, it was a prevailing custom to bring children troubled...with any disease or infirmity ; a crooked pin was put p. 270. in, and the well laved dry between each dipping. My informant has seen twenty children brought... | |
 | John Trotter Brockett - English language - 1846 - 298 pages
...mile to the west of Jarrow there is a well called Bede's Well, to which, as late as the year 1740, it was a prevailing custom to bring children troubled...in, and the well laved dry between each dipping." — Brand's Pop. Antiq. DIPNESS, depth. Sax. deopnysse, profunditas. DIRDOM, DURDUM, a great noise,... | |
 | sir John Bernard Burke - 1850 - 516 pages
...the west of Jarrow.f there is a well still called Bedc's Well, to which, as late as the year 1740, it was a prevailing custom to bring children troubled with any disease or infirmity ; a crooked liin was put in, Md the well laved dry between each dipping. My informant has seen ' He derived the... | |
 | 1853 - 424 pages
...mile to the west of Jarrow there is a well called Bede's well, to which, as late as the year 1740, it was a prevailing custom to bring children troubled...put in, and the well laved dry between each dipping. My informant has seen twenty children brought together on a Sunday to be dipped in this well; at which,... | |
 | John Brand - Christian antiquities - 1854 - 560 pages
...(near Newcastle-upon-Tyne) there is a well still called Bede's Well, to which as late as the year 1740 it was a prevailing custom to bring children troubled...put in, and the well laved dry between each dipping. My informant has seen twenty children brought together on a Sunday to be dipped in this well, at which... | |
 | John Murray (Firm) - Durham (England : County) - 1864 - 430 pages
...(1J m. SW), the traditional birthplace of Bede, Bede's Well, may T>e seen. " Here, as late as 1740, it was a prevailing custom to bring children troubled...infirmity; a crooked pin was put in, and the well laved drj Eoute 9.— South Shields. between each dipping. Twenty children were brought together on a Sunday... | |
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I'm dead." Bede's-Well .— About a mile to the west of Jarrow (near Newcastle-uponTyne), there is a well still called Bede's Well, to which, as late as the year 1740, it was a prevailing custom to bring children troubled with any disease or infirmity... 
