NEEDS, or St Neots, six miles from Huntingdon, 58 miles from London, so called from the monument of a saint of that name in it, who was burnt by the Danes, is a large well-built town, having a handsome strong church, with a prodigious fine steeple, and a good stone-bridge over the Ouse, by which coals are brought to it, and sold through the country. It has a charity-school for 25 poor children. Its market is on Thursday; fairs on Holy Thursday, Aug. 1. Corpus-Christi Thursday, June 13. and December 17; and it is famous for a medicinal spring.
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