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Saltonstall, Yorkshire, England. Further historical information.

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SALTONSTALL

SALTONSTALL, NETHER (or Lower) and OVER (or Upper), 2 houses in the township of Warley, and parish of Halifax, liberty of Wakefield, 4 miles from Halifax.

Here was born in 1572, Dr. Edmund Deane, brother to the Bishop of Ossory, author of "Spadacrene Anglica, or the English Spaw Fountain," being a brief treatise on the Mineral Waters in the Forest of Knaresborough; also, "Admiranda Chymica." Some of these tracts, Wood says, were written by Samuel Norton. Dr. Deane was of Morton College, Oxford, and died about the beginning of the civil wars, having practised in York, as a physician, till that period. --Watson's History of Halifax.
[Description(s) edited from various 19th century sources by Colin Hinson © 2013]