“Here as in days when Alfred erst was king
Baptismal water flows from Plegmund’s spring.”
It is hoped that by this restoration of the well the memory of S.
Plegmund may be preserved: and it is not improbable that the ceremony
of dressing the well, not uncommon in the adjoining county of
Derbyshire, may be adopted as a village festival on July 23rd, the day
of St. Plegmund’s death.
_Note._--The preceding chapter embodies the substance of two papers by
the same writer, read before Meetings of the Chester and North Wales
Archæological and Historic Society.