AUTHOR's ADDRESS. THIS HIS little work having passed through several editions in the course of a very few years, is the surest test of its great utility. No pains have been spared, nor expenses regarded, to render it beneficial, instructive, and entertaining to the public, particularly to those who visit Tunbridge Wells during the season. For the perfection of which, the most valuable materials have been collected from authentic records, the best esteemed authors, and the venerable repositories of ancient manuscripts searched, to present the public with a copious detail of historical facts. As the generality of persons are apt to be struck with reverential awe and pleasing melancholy, at the gloomy prospect of mouldering ruins, or standing monuments of antiquity, and as this country, but particularly the neighbourhood of Tunbridge Wells, affords, in very ample manner, that solemn pleasure to reflecting minds, it has been judged proper to insert a concise account of whatever merits the attention of the antiquary, the curious, and the pensive. This GUIDE is likewise meant to accompany families in their airings. A MAP of the roads, comprehending the same distance around the Wells, which was published, merely for the accommodation of the company, since the alteration of the roads, and which may be purchased sepárate, will be found a very useful appendage. The hurry in putting this to the press, may have subjected it to some few errors, and incorrectness of expression, which, I hope, the candid public will overlook, as I fiatter myself the plan of it will be found so calculated as to answer every purpose intended. That part of the work, which treats at large on the mineral waters is the result of several years practice of different physicians, whose observations have been made on the spot, and whose peculiar study it has been to acquire a perfect knowledge of the abstruse wonders of these great magazines of nature's dispensatory, and chymical subterranean laboratories. This new edition, is with improvements, and as often as others are occur, or as the faculty pleased to furnish me with further observations or cases, for the medicinal part of the work, the most early additions will be made with that earnest endeavour, which, throughout the whole of this little publication, has prevailed with the public's very obliged, and grateful servant, J. SPRANGE. January, 1815. CONTENTS. ADAM's Well, account of Amusements of the company in the time of the season Assembly Rooms, and other places of amusement, first at Rusthall Com- Buildings and improvements, the pro- gress of them, to the present time Chapel built Cold Baths, account of Page 36 96 21 41 46 |