The antiquarian itinerary, comprising specimens of architecture, monastic, castellated, and domestic; with other vestiges of antiquity in Great BritainAccompanied with descriptions . .The country people have a tradition, that Severus, dying atYork, left the empire to his two sons, Carracalla and Geta,which was acceptable to the empress, and approved by thesoldiers ; but not by the two brothers. A reconciliationbeing brought about, by the mediation of the empress and asister, in memory whereof four Obelisks were erected ; butthree now are only remaining, one being taken down lastcentury. Severa
The antiquarian itinerary, comprising specimens of architecture, monastic, castellated, and domestic; with other vestiges of antiquity in Great BritainAccompanied with descriptions . .The country people have a tradition, that Severus, dying atYork, left the empire to his two sons, Carracalla and Geta,which was acceptable to the empress, and approved by thesoldiers ; but not by the two brothers. A reconciliationbeing brought about, by the mediation of the empress and asister, in memory whereof four Obelisks were erected ; butthree now are only remaining, one being taken down lastcentury. Several are of opinion that they were erected longbefore the arrival of the Romans in Britain, and that herewas, in British times, the great Temple of the Druids, where PYRAMIDS, OR DEVILs ARROWS. was held the midsummer meeting of all the country round,to celebrate the quarterly sacrifice, accompanied with sports,games, races, and all kinds of exercises, with universal festi-vity : This was like the Olympian Games : and that those obe-lisks were as the matae of the races, the remembrance ofwhich is transmitted in the present great fair held at Borough-bridge, on Saint Barnabas HEPPE, OR SHAP, MONASTERY, WESTMORELAND. This monastery was originally founded near Preston inKendale, about the latter end of the reign of Henry theSecond, by Thomas Fitz Gospatrick, Fitz Orme, whosefather, as appears by the pipe roll of 2-2d of Henry theSecond, was amerced 500 marks for surrendering the castleof Appleby to the king of Scotland. He endowed it forpremonstratensian canons, and dedicated it to the honourcf St. Mary Magdalene. It was afterwards removed, withLis consent, and during his lifetime, to a valley in the parishof Hepp, now called Shapp, probably a more fertile andpleasant situationt Among other donations, this Thomas gave these canonsas much wood as they would take out of his forests ; alsothe bark of his trees which should fall off, and permittedthem to grind at his mill toll free:
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