. 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 .. . en feveral of thechimnies are ftill ftanding. Another part (howslittle more than the foundations, which, had theybeen compleated, the caftle would have been of avery large extent. The reafon it was left in thiscondition was, that his grace was beheaded in theyear 1521, before he had time to complete his de-fign. Of this ftru6lure we have given a view en-graved on copper. This town, in the time of the late civil wars,was fortified for the king, by William St. Le-gar, to curb the garrifon of Glocefter. Thechurch is large, and built in the form of a ca-thedral, with fpacious ifles on each fide, and acrofs. It has three chancels, and a tower at theweft end, which is high and beautiful. There arefour fmall alms-houfes, for the maintenance offifteen poor people j but two of them have littleor no endovvment; the other two have fo muchland fettled on them, that each of the poor havea {hilling a week and their coals. Mr. Edwardslikewife built a free-fchool^ which is fince e^idow-* ed :. GLOCESTER SHIRE. 127 ed with 14I. a year. This town has a market 011Saturdays, and three fairs, on Eafter Monday,Auguft 15, and the Monday before December 2J,for cattle and pigs. Oldbury is a village feated upon the Severn,two miles well: of Thorrbury, and is thought by-fome to have been a Rom
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