. A description of England and Wales, containing a particular account of each county, with its antiquities, curiosities, situation, figure, extent, climate, rivers, lakes, mineral waters, soils, fossils, caverns, plants and minerals, agriculture, civil and ecclesiastical divisions, cities, towns, palaces, seats, corporations, markets, fairs, manufactures, trade, sieges, battles, and the lives of the illustrious men each county has produced : embellished with two hundred and forty copper plates, of palaces, castles, cathedrals, the ruins of Roman and Saxon buildings, and of abbeys, monasteries,
. A description of England and Wales, containing a particular account of each county, with its antiquities, curiosities, situation, figure, extent, climate, rivers, lakes, mineral waters, soils, fossils, caverns, plants and minerals, agriculture, civil and ecclesiastical divisions, cities, towns, palaces, seats, corporations, markets, fairs, manufactures, trade, sieges, battles, and the lives of the illustrious men each county has produced : embellished with two hundred and forty copper plates, of palaces, castles, cathedrals, the ruins of Roman and Saxon buildings, and of abbeys, monasteries, and other religious houses, besides a variety of cuts of urns, inscriptions, and other antiquities .. . tieth year of his age. His curious colieclion ofmanufcripts is in the Bodleian library. At RocESTER, three miles to the northwardof Uttoxeter, was a monaftcry of canons regu-lar, of the order of St. Auguiiinc, founded andendowed with large polTeffions, by Richard Ba-coun, nephev/ to Ranulph, earl of Chefter, aboutthe year 1146, and dedicated to the Virgin pofleffions were confirmed by Henry theThird, in the thirtieth year of his reign. Thisnionaftery had, at the fuppreffion, nine religious,when its revenues were valued at lool. 2s. 10 d,a year by Dugdale, and at upwards of ml. bySpeed. In the church-yard of Checkley, a villagethree miles weft of Uttoxeter, are three taliftones, in the form of pyramids, engraved with avariety of figures. The inhabitants have a tradi-tion, that there was an engagement in the neigh-bourhood between tViO armies, one armed, andthe ether unarmed ; and that in one of the ar-mies, three bifliops v/ere killed, and that thefe flones i Vol . .%zi. 4 IK> STAFFORDSHIRE. 221 __ nes were erected to their memory. They arefuppoied to be Danifli monuments. About four miles to the north of Uttoxeter isCroxton-Abbey, which was eredled by Ber-tram de Verdun, in the year 1176, for monks ofthe Ciftercian order, and he endowed it with landsand re
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