. A new display of the beauties of England; : or A description of the most elegant or magnificent public edifices, royal palaces, noblemen's and gentlemen's seats, and other curiosities, natural or artificial .. . THE BEAUTIES OF ENGLAND. 255 twobifhops, viz. Wulftan and Ofwald, his two faints, bv whofeneighbourhood he hoped for falvation. The whole length ofthe church is 394 feet, the breadth 78, and the tower is 162feet high. Prince Arthur, elder brother of Henry the Eighth,lies buried here j and here is a very fine monument of the coun-tefs of Salifbury, who dropt her garter as (he danced b
. A new display of the beauties of England; : or A description of the most elegant or magnificent public edifices, royal palaces, noblemen's and gentlemen's seats, and other curiosities, natural or artificial .. . THE BEAUTIES OF ENGLAND. 255 twobifhops, viz. Wulftan and Ofwald, his two faints, bv whofeneighbourhood he hoped for falvation. The whole length ofthe church is 394 feet, the breadth 78, and the tower is 162feet high. Prince Arthur, elder brother of Henry the Eighth,lies buried here j and here is a very fine monument of the coun-tefs of Salifbury, who dropt her garter as (he danced before kingEdward the Third, at Windfor. There are feveral angels cutin ftone, about this tomb, {hewing garters over it. Here arealfo twelve parifti churches, nine of which are within the city,and three without. The ftreets are broad and well paved, ofwhich the Foregate ftreet is remarkably reguLr and beautiful;and it is upon the whole a very agreeable place. Here is a no-ble hofpital, in the building of which Robert Berkley, of Spetcta-ley, laid out zcool. and endowed it with 4000I. for twelve poormen. There are fix or feven others in and about the city ; andbefides the kings fchool here, founded by Henry
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