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 14 The Caufes and Cure Oxfordshire, but upon being taken ill, left off the Work: Whereupon it was undertaken by two others * of Woodftock ; who, before they could do any thing confiderable in it, funk down, and died irrecoverably in the Well: Which being perceived by a Miller hard by, and he coming to their AfEftance, fell down dead upon them. Another aifo venturing to do the fame, with a Rope' tied about him, fell from the" Ladder juft in the fame Manner *, and though prefently drawn sip by the People above, yet he was fcarceiy recovered in an Hour or more. And fince then, upon a Bucket's falling into a Well in another Part of the Town, a Woman per- f waded a ftrong lufty Man to go down a Ladder to fetch it, who, by that Time he had got half way down, fell from the Lad- der into the Well * upon which, the Woman called another of her Neighbours to his Aiii- fence, who, much about the fame Place, met with the fame Fate, without giving the leaft Sign of Change ; fo fatal (fays the Doclor) are the Damps of that Place. Dr, Baot (a) tells a Story that happened at Duh~ lin in. Ireland^ juft of the fame Nature. And in (a) Nar.'Hift. Cap. 18, Seft. 4.