. 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 .. . lers, which is prefumed to havel)een a funeral monument. But the characterson the eaft fide of this, are nothing like the Ru-nic, nor any letters hitherto taken notice of. Within a furlong or lefs of this monument, isan artificial mount or barrov/, and there are abouttwenty more in this neighbourhood, where therehave been formerly difcovered a great many bones ;for which reafon, this pillar has been fuppofed tobe a monument of fome fignal victory ; and therather, becaufe, upon digging five or fix feet un-der it, no bones were difcovered, nor any thingelfe that might occafion it to be thought fepul-chraL Near Holywell is Basingv/erk, a villagewhere Ralph earl of Chefter, about the year 11 31,founded a monaftery, which was probably muchimproved, and converted into an abbey of Cifter-cian monks, by king Henry the Second, in was dedicated to bt. Mary, and at the time ofthe difiblution, its revenues were valued, by Dug-dale, at 150 L a year, but at J58 1. by Speed, Fart VcLM^ui .71. FLINTSHIRE. 71 Part of it is in ruins, but one end feems to bepretty entire, and over it is fixed a large crofs. From Holyv/ell the road runs weftward toRhudland, which is fituated at the mouth ofthe river Clvvyd, near eleven miles weft of Holy-well, and received its name from the reddifh co-l
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