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Guernsey Folk Lore

Note 93 — Chapter V · Holy Chapels and Holy Wells.

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From G. Métivier, Esq.

“Our Lady and St. George were often partners in worship; and the latter’s holy wells are famous in old legends:—‘And the Kynge (of Lybie) did to make a chyrche there of our Lady and of Saynte George. In the whyche yet sourdet a fountayn of lyving water whyche heled the seke peple yt drinken thereof.’”—Caxton’s Edition of the Golden Legend, fol. cxi.

Editor’s Note.—See Croyances et Légendes du Centre de la France, by Laisnal de la Salle, Tome I., p. 324.

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