. 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 .. . faid to be the firfl female martyr, and that{lie fufFered in the year 47 ; but this muft be afable, Chriilianity being then not known in thisifland ; however, the ruins of the chapel are flillto be {Qtr\ upon the rocks at low water. We fhall now leave the road which paflTes intoMonmouthfhire, and crofling the country, pro-ceed northward to St. Brivals Castle, whichis between four and five miles north of Tyden-ham. This caflle is in the forefl of Dean, andhere is held the mine court, chiefly conftituted forminers and workers in iron, who have laws oftheir own, proper for the carrying on their affairs,and deciding their difiFcrences, in which there ufedto be a peculiar cuftom of an evidences fwearing,by touching a bible with a kind of confecratedftick, and not by his fuppofed defiled, becaufedirty, hand. In it is a prifon for offenders. Thegovernment of this caflle has been always givento fome of the nobility, and the prefent conltablethereof is the earl of Berkeley. Three ro^ GLOCESTERSHIRE. iit Three miles north of the lafl mentioned caftleis Newlanp, which is a very large parifh in theTame foreft, it being thirty miles in compafs, andincludes meadow, pafture and arable lands. It isfeated in a pleafant plain, well watered with feve-ral brooks, that run into the riv
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